When Rihanna started a lingerie collection in 2018, she teamed up with the start-up behind Kate Hudson’s athleisure line Fabletics. But Fabletics and the start-up, TechStyle Fashion Group, faced complaints about deceptive billing tactics and now Rihanna’s line, Savage x Fenty, is facing some of the same criticism. The line has been praised for using…
As the new coronavirus continued to spread unabated within the city of Wuhan, China, government officials last week imposed draconian measures. Workers in protective gear were instructed to go to every home in the city, removing infected residents to immense isolation wards built hastily in a sports stadium, an exhibition center and a building complex.…
There was a moment of confusion at Spring Street Studios, the hub of New York Fashion Week, on Monday morning. Designers usually close out runway shows with a wave and a bow, after the final march of their models. But that didn’t happen at the Luooif Studio show. The music ended and house lights dimmed,…
Princess Diana, June 1994 Princess Diana’s off the shoulder, form fitting silk little black dress has been labeled “the revenge dress” as she wore it the same night Prince Charles aired his tell-all documentary about the couple’s marriage and subsequent divorce. Although Diana didn’t make a statement that night, her LBD spoke volumes.
It’s getting to the point where when I walk past all the abandoned storefronts strafing New York City, I begin to imagine all the other things they could be used for. Impromptu raves or hardcore shows. Floor-to-ceiling floral displays. Short-run theaters for one or two-person plays. Housing for the unhoused. The idea that they might…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA photograph by the state-run newspaper China Daily showing an isolation ward in Wuhan on Thursday.Credit…China Daily, via Reuters World health authorities now have a name for the coronavirus illness. The World Health Organization on Monday proposed an official name for the illness caused by the new coronavirus: COVID-19.…
Your co-worker shuffles in at around 9:45 a.m., eyes averted, and makes a beeline for the coffee pot. Although your colleague may not verbalize his current state of mind, his mug — “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee and then after that still please don’t talk to me,” it says — informs…
Eric Brown and his wife, Stacey, were stunned to learn that Stacey was pregnant again and even more surprised that not one — not two — but three more babies were on the way. “They were naturally conceived, so this was a complete and total surprise,” said Mr. Brown, 37, a high school special education…
For the sportswear giant Under Armour, 2020 is off to a rocky start. Shares in the company tumbled on Tuesday after it released disappointing earnings for 2019 and warned that this year may not be much better. The company warned that overall revenues were likely to grow at a low single-digit rate in 2020, and…
Four years after Chile embraced the world’s most sweeping measures to combat mounting obesity, a partial verdict on their effectiveness is in: Chileans are drinking a lot fewer sugar-laden beverages, according to study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine. Consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks dropped nearly 25 percent in the 18 months after Chile adopted…