As families grow and space needs change, the conventional move is to trade one home for another. Rebecca Rudolph and Colin Thompson would say it doesn’t have to be that way. Instead of moving, you can change your home, time and again, to meet those evolving needs. “We’ve been in our house almost 24 years,”…
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In 2018 Charles Leung made history as the first Asian executive named chief executive of a brand owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. As head of its jewelry brand Fred, headquartered in Paris, he leveraged more than two decades of industry experience and his expertise in the Chinese market to grow the company during…
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A gemstone falling out of a ring, earring, bracelet or necklace is every jewelry lover’s biggest fear. And it occurs often — although not usually during a live TV broadcast. Yet that is what seems to have happened during the Golden Globes on Jan. 7 as Keltie Knight, E! News’s chief correspondent, suddenly realized that…
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There is one model who walked in more fashion shows than any other in 2023. Yilan Hua is from China. She stands 5-foot-11, with a sweep of shoulder-length jet black hair, full lips and pointed nose and appeared on a staggering 89 runways last year, according to the fashion search engine Tagwalk, outpacing her nearest…
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When Lyndsey Ingram hosts dinners at her namesake gallery in the Mayfair district of London, the art on her walls initially grabs her guests’ attention. But by the time they are seated at the table, it is her Saint Laurent goldtone metal cuff with a cutout heart that fascinates them. “I often find myself taking…
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“I have anger against everything in the world, especially against myself.” Such was the explanation by Rei Kawakubo for a Comme des Garçons collection that was an explosion of chaotic femininity — bows and bustles and puffs and flounces — all in black, scarified by prints of barbed wire and chains, legs bound by ribbons.…
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Ibogaine, a formidable hallucinogen made from the root of a shrub native to Central Africa, is not for the timid. It unleashes a harrowing psychedelic trip that can last more than 24 hours, and the drug can cause sudden cardiac arrest and death. But scientists who have studied ibogaine have reported startling findings. According to…
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What is ibogaine? A naturally occurring psychoactive compound, ibogaine comes from the iboga tree, a rainforest shrub native to Central Africa. The drug comes from the bark of the root, which is crushed and consumed as a powder or given in an extracted form. Iboga has long been used for medicinal and ritual purposes in…
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There are myriad words to describe how light enters and reflects in diamonds and gemstones. They glisten and sparkle, twinkle and dazzle. Often they are luminescent, sometimes brilliant and certainly eye-catching. But conveying those sentiments artistically, as in a drawing or painting, requires an entirely different kind of articulation. And as times have changed, so…
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