Beauty

Opening Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai, Rahul Mishra’s latest AFEW outing didn’t arrive with the usual flourish of embroideries, but more restraint. “This collection comes from a place of returning: returning home to handloom, and to cotton,” Mishra explained. Reuniting with master weaver Hukum Kohli in Chanderi, he developed a Supima cotton-silk blend that feels preternaturally light, soft,...

It’s not often that you hear screams of horror at a fashion presentation—even at the most hideous of collections. But Mikio Sakabe is good at getting a reaction.This season the designer held a presentation in a 90-year-old Japanese house that is purported to be haunted, and is used as an escape room for horror fans. Each of the...

On a perfectly sunny day in December, on a soundstage in Los Angeles transformed to evoke a bustling rue parisienne, Margot Robbie—movie star nonpareil—was channeling the jaunty musicality of fellow Aussie Kylie Minogue.Fronting a new campaign for the Chanel 25 handbag, Robbie was working with filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) to...

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then your brows are the curtains that define your entire being. Hyperbolic, sure. But eyebrow shapes are sneakily one of the most important features to consider—even the slightest arch can make a huge difference in how we balance our features and provide facial structure. So deciding which one works...

Weddings are a beautiful display of love, family, friends, and ceremony. They’re also a fabulous way to spend a lot of money in one day. It’s important to prioritize where to focus your budget—if you’re a florals girl, you know a rose by any other name is $12 a stem; buttercream frosting goes up exponentially if you happen...

No Sunday is scarier than the one involving heaps of dirty leggings, sports bras, and my boyfriend’s Bombas socks piling up on my hamper. It takes about five minutes of courage-mustering to crawl under my hydraulic lift storage bed to procure my laundry accoutrements and assortment of oversized tote bags. But the real chaos ensues once I take...

Whether you’re watching from the front row or via live stream, the casting of a fashion show sets the rhythm, the proportions of the clothes, and the overall impression a brand leaves behind. But predominantly thin casts, with the occasional curve model or a handful of mid-size looks, made for a disappointing Fall/Winter 2026 season when it came...

This season, a couple of major labels featured mid and plus-size models in their shows — including Balenciaga and Givenchy. It wasn’t the first time: in previous seasons, those moments of visibility hinted that luxury houses might be starting to consider bigger bodies, and harness the major missed opportunity in mid and plus-size consumers. But the lack of...

I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with how brands can rise through our size inclusivity rankings by tokenistically featuring one mid-size or plus-size model, only to not produce a single garment that would fit someone at the top end of mid-size, or in the plus-size bracket entirely. Some brands who actually make clothes for bigger bodies expressed their frustration to...

I’m generally not one to be pressed about a celebrity beauty brand launch (sorry, I’m jaded!), but when Cécred—the hair-care brainchild of Beyoncé and her mom, Miss Tina—debuted in February 2024, it piqued my interest. Its Foundation Collection served as a smart launchpad for a brand catering to all hair types—a lineup of eight wash day essentials powered...