It began with a vanity. When West Elm reached out to Emma Chamberlain to see if she’d be interested in designing a collection, the answer was an automatic yes—and she knew right off the bat what item she wanted to start with. “I loved vanities when I was a kid and I’d...

Kirk’s career began in the late 1970s; after studying medicine and then film history, he ended up working as an art director for advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi. He had met the renowned stylist and art director Michael Roberts, then at the British Sunday Times in 1977, before he went on to...

Few designers know instinctively what women want to wear before they do. Yet, Tory Burch has always had the uncanny ability to peer into the future and unlock our unconscious desires. Her spring 2026 runway show, held at Sotheby’s at The Breuer, cemented her ability to bridge the liminal space between past and...

“What Anthropic is doing is interesting because it’s trying to give something intangible a physical culture,” says Tom Garland, founder of brand consultancy Edition + Partners. “You can’t ‘photograph’ AI, and it’s difficult to dramatize. So pop-ups, objects, merch, printed matter — those things give it texture. They make it feel more...

For marketers, these formats offer what generative AI cannot: friction, materiality, and human presence. In this landscape, ‘human-made’ becomes a marker of status — something consumers can see, feel, and trust. As a result, community-building is being repositioned as a status symbol.Even AI companies are operationalizing this approach. Anthropic recently opened a...

As was clear from the outset, this Tao show was all about circles. Held in the Comme des Garçons Aoyama HQ, as has become customary for Tao Kurihara’s eponymous label, it began with giant gingham circles patched together in baby pink and blue to form voluminous tops and skirts. Round details followed...

When it comes to caring for your pits, it seems the pendulum is swinging beyond the traditional deo. The best exfoliating deodorants are kicking things up a notch via potent actives that yield amplified benefits than the average formulas. “To combat odor, AHA-based deodorant formulas work by lowering the skin’s PH, creating...

As the runways have shown us recently, there’s a hunger for beauty, glamour, and heart in fashion. With Wuthering Heights dominating pop culture, there was also a sense of romance rising on both the spring and fall 2026 runways: bustles and bustiers (like that at Bora Aksu and Anna Sui) were back...

When it comes to Hollywood red carpets, a sense of formality always reigns supreme—with that being said, a sea of glitzy gowns can get old real quick. This week, however, the best dressed stars of the bunch challenged that notion of traditional stuffiness. Instead, A-listers chose striking designs that reworked the idea...

There is a formula to “the K-pop documentary” that anyone with a lightstick and a photocard in their phone case knows well: Drone footage of concerts and long, fast pans of screaming fans intercut with idols against a white cyclorama, introducing themselves and their position in one to two easy soundbites.And BTS...