PARIS — Dior staged an homage to sport on the eve of the Paris Olympics on the grounds of the Musée Rodin on the first day of Paris Couture Week on Monday. Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri used fall’s couture as a stage “to pay a fitting tribute to all athletes … from antiquity to the present day.” On the runway, …
Forget the usual red-carpet suspects! This year's Met Gala saw a breakout star unlike any other: Indian fashion entrepreneur Mona Patel. Indian entrepreneur Mona Patel shines at Met Gala in a stunning mechanical butterflies dress, a custom creation by Iris Van Herpen. Who is Mona Patel stunning the Met Gala 2024 crowd with Butterfly dress Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Mona …
Here we are again, ready or not, at the start of another year. There’s a video called Salad zone, showing women thrashing a tv and endlessly stirring a pot to illustrate the crushing boredom of a life lived between four walls, but also a series of photographs of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, seen, for the first time, through the …
The number of house fires in the Netherlands increased significantly in the first half of 2023, topping the 4,000 mark for the first time ever. That amounts to a fire in someone’s house almost every hour in the first six months of this year, AD reports based on figures released by the Netherlands Institute for Public Safety. Ruud van Herpen, …
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova made her red carpet appearance at the British Fashion Awards making a strong statement on sustainability and recycling plastic waste. Evian described the dress in the caption as, “The ‘Mimesis’ dress is the first, one-of-a-kind custom couture dress made from a specially created material produced using recycled Evian plastic bottles. Thanks to Iris Van Herpen …