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Balmain’s New ‘Lion King’ Collection Marks 30th Anniversary of Disney Movie
For Olivier Rousteing, the creative director of Balmain, the Parisian luxury house, South Africa is a long way from home. But the country is close to his heart. “My passport is French,” said Mr. Rousteing, 38, on a phone call from Paris. “But my blood is African,” added the designer, who learned relatively late in…
Exploring Lanzarote, a Growing LGBTQ Destination in the Canary Islands
“Lanzarote is a place of secrets and mysteries,” the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar once said of the place he used as a backdrop for his 2009 film “Broken Embraces.” “After I set foot on the island, the tensions I bring from Madrid disappear, as if this land had healing qualities.” Mr. Almodóvar’s words, in a…
Are You Screaming for This Whipped Cream Sunscreen?
Last week, on a family vacation at a resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., Alexa Johnson grabbed a canister containing a substance that looked like whipped cream, felt like whipped cream and made the same whooshing sound as whipped cream. But it wasn’t whipped cream at all. It was sunscreen. Her children, 9 and 6, immediately extended…
Latin America Has a Rich Tradition of Religious Pendants
Martha J. Egan has spent decades rummaging around markets and antique stores across Latin America in search of the rare, carefully crafted devotional pendants called relicarios. Her hunt has led her to amass more than 400 of the objects — pronounced reh-lee-CAR-yos; in English, reliquaries — and to write two books about what she has…
Bulgari Celebrates With a 200-Carat Diamond Necklace
To mark its 140th anniversary, Bulgari has created its most expensive piece of jewelry: a 200-carat diamond necklace priced at 40 million euros. Jean-Christophe Babin, the house’s chief executive, said the necklace, the Serpenti Aeterna, represented the achievement of a significant goal: When he took the reins in 2013, the house’s tradition of high jewelry…
A Jewelry Line Rooted in Qatar
When Fatma Al-Mohannadi founded De Trove jewelry, it was the fruition of a teenage dream. “I always had a passion for drawing jewelry, and I thought maybe I should just start my own line,” Ms. Al-Mohannadi, 35, said during a recent interview at her boutique in Doha’s Pearl neighborhood. “So I pursued my passion and…
Choosing Love and Marriage During the Holocaust
“Weddings During the Holocaust” is one of 70 ongoing online exhibits depicting the Holocaust that was conceived, organized and produced by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Israel’s largest Holocaust memorial and museum. Intentionally debuting on Feb. 14, 2024, it is the only retrospective illustrating couples who married during World War II, at a…
For An Aquatic Veterinarian, It’s Never ‘Just A Fish’
This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. Many students begin veterinary school with career aspirations that date back to childhood, when they fell in love with the idea of ministering to cats and dogs, or horses, or the exotic animals at the zoo. Jessie Sanders…
A Perfect Match, Except for God and Dogs
When he wrote early in our correspondence that he thought his religion wasn’t compatible with mine but that mine was compatible with his, I couldn’t tell if he was joking or trying to make a philosophical point. I was taken aback by the absurdity of the statement, given that he had no religion, and I…