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Lisa, a member of the K-Pop group Blackpink, performers during her solo set at at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on Friday, April 11, 2025.
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Exclusive: Meet the designer behind Lisa’s reptilian Coachella look
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Architect Sou Fujimoto: Expo 2025 is ‘a precious opportunity to come together’
A model walks the runway during the Armani Prive Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2024-2025 fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 25, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Lucy Markovic, star of ‘Australia’s Next Top Model,’ dies age 27
Left-right: Actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù stars in "My Father's Shadow," directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-produced by Fatherland Productions CEO Funmbi Ogunbanwo.
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Nigerian cinema in spotlight with ‘My Father’s Shadow’ to premiere in Cannes Film Festival first
Shoulder Stand, 2023 Oil and paper transfer on canvas 63 x 71 7/8 inches (160 x 182.4 cm)
Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd/Courtesy the artist/Gagosian
Inside Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo’s rise to art-world stardom
A new book, published by Taschen, documents some of the most memorable ads from the 2000s.
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What the best ads of the 2000s reveal about American culture
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From $85 tomato leaf soap to $2,300 Hellmann’s mayo handbags, everyday food is now a status symbol
New York, NY - Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco wear matching coats as they leave after the Knicks game at Madison Square Garden in New York City Pictured: Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco BACKGRID USA 8 APRIL 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: Santi Ramales / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients - Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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Look of the Week: Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s love language is matching looks

Arts

Art Basel's staff members stand next to by "Aspiring to Pumpkin's Love, the Love in My Heart" 2023, by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama displayed at the Unlimited sector of Art Basel fair for Modern and contemporary art, in Basel, northern Switzerland, on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Valentin FLAURAUD / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Global art sales plummeted by 12% in 2024, says industry report
Painter of ‘truly the worst’ Trump portrait says president’s comments threaten her art career
It’s among the largest collections of Michelangelo sculptures ever shown. But there’s a catch
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‘You only have your eyes to trust’: Miles Aldridge on shooting film in the digital age
Viral Studio Ghibli-style AI images showcase power – and copyright concerns – of ChatGPT update
In Ecuador’s mountains, a photographer’s search for ultra-long hair
President Donald Trump's portrait hangs in the Colorado Capitol after an unveiling ceremony, August 1, 2019, in Denver.
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Trump’s portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’
K-pop band NewJeans announces hiatus amid ‘mental and emotional toll’ of legal battle
Famous artist couples: What happens when one is better known than the other?

Architecture

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This Lagos museum is challenging the traditional ‘Eurocentric’ model
This picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows Hwasong, the new high-rise neighborhood being constructed in Pyongyang, North Korea.
KCNA
North Korea unveils new 10,000-home showpiece residential district
Detail, the Empire State Building, The Panorama of the City of New York, 2018.
Max Touhey
The world’s largest architectural model captures New York City in the ’90s
Sidhpur, Gujarat, India - September 16, 2015: Details of the 19th and early 20th century Dawoodi Bohra buildings or Bohrawads, as known locally in Sidhpur, Gujarat. Built by the Dawoodi Bohras, a Shia Muslim trading community from Gujarat. Today more than 100 such buildings exist. All differently colored but in depleted condition. As hardly anybody lives there. Most of the building lie locked. The buildings are laid in rows of narrow, deep structures, about three to four floors high. They have a strong European character with gabled roofs, ornate balconies, pilasters, columns and decorated doors and windows.
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Indian town’s abandoned European-style mansions are a throwback to its opulent past
Ricardo Scofidio in December 2007.
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Ricardo Scofidio, architect of New York’s High Line, dies age 89
Mar 7, 2025
Africa Hall, Addis Ababa.
Rory Gardiner
Gifted by an emperor, Ethiopia’s iconic Africa Hall has been renovated for a new era
Mar 5, 2025
Liu Jaikun
Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation/The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Pritzker Prize 2025: China’s Liu Jiakun awarded ‘Nobel of architecture’
Mar 4, 2025
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Foster + Partners
$1-billion Dubai skyscrapers to be linked by daring rooftop pool
Jan 10, 2025

Fashion

Models present creations from the Versace Fall/Winter 2025/2026 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, February 28, 2025. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
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Prada agrees to buy fashion rival Versace
Polo Ralph Lauren clothing displayed at the Ralph Lauren Flagship Women's store in New York, US, on Friday, April 26, 2024. Ralph Lauren Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on May 23. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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What Trump’s tariffs mean for fashion
Erykah Badu at the Billboard Women in Music 2025 held at the YouTube Theater on March 29, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
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Look of the Week: Was there a hidden message in Erykah Badu’s ‘booty’ bodysuit?
Argentinian model Mica Arganaraz (R) acknowledges the audience with models after presenting creations by Duran Lantink for the Womenswear Ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2025/2026 collection as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP) (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)
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From chiseled six-packs to sharp cheekbones, prosthetics are on the rise in fashion
H&M has announced it plans to create digital versions of some of its models.
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Fashion giant H&M plans to use AI clones of its human models. Not everyone is happy
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Pamela Anderson, ‘explosive’ bikinis and the changing tides of swimwear style
Naomi Watts, left, and Bing attend the premiere of "The Friend" at IPIC Theaters on Monday, March 24, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Look of the Week: Naomi Watts is twinning with her canine co-star
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, Madonna, 1985
Orion Pictures/Everett Collection
Remember when ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ helped cement Madonna’s signature style?

Design

This undated image provided by Studio Kukkapuro shows Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish furniture designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms and museums alike, sitting in his famous Experimental chair in his studio outside Helsinki.
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Yrjö Kukkapuro, designer whose iconic chairs were sat on by ‘almost every Finn,’ dies age 91
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 29: Martha Stewart attends the 2024 WWD Honors at Cipriani South Street on October 29, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/WireImage)
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Now you can have Martha Stewart in your garden
Phil Cicio, an electrician at Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, checks the lights on the ball that will drop in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, at the company's warehouse in New York, Dec. 26, 1991. The ball weighs 200 pounds, is six feet in diameter and contains 180 white outdoor lamps. The tradition dates back to 1907 when the first ball was lowered from the top of One Times Square, then the New York Times building.
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A brief history of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop
London, England, UK, 30 September 2024 - Looks Delicious! exhbition at Japan House London
Jeremie Souteyrat/Japan House London
This food looks too good to be real — and it is
Pantone color of the year 2025 mocha mousse
From Pantone
Pantone names its color of the year for 2025
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Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar reveals first concept car after controversial rebrand

Beauty

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25 years on, Patrick Bateman’s unsettling morning routine is normal
Jayne Foo poses for a portrait on Monday, March 31, 2025.
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‘I want to reclaim my skin’: Why these people are removing their tattoos
TikTok has withdrawn a controversial "chubby" filter.
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TikTok withdraws controversial ‘chubby’ filter
Millie Bobby Brown poses for photographers upon arrival at the Brit Awards 2025 in London, Saturday, March. 1, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
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Millie Bobby Brown responds to articles criticizing her appearance
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The internet is raving about ‘nature’s Botox.’ Does it work?
US rugby union player Ilona Maher arrives for the 76th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on September 15, 2024. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Ilona Maher effect: How a whirlwind six months made her the face of rugby – and so much more
2YGEA02 THE SUBSTANCE 2024 de Coralie Fargeat Margaret Qualley. COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL © Universal Pictures - Working Title Films
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Margaret Qualley says her skin took a year to recover from ‘The Substance’ prosthetics
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Keerthana Kunnath
The bodybuilders defying feminine norms in South India

Luxury

Hublot
Hublot
Amid a ’70s design revival, colorful hard-stone watch dials make a comeback
The four-story penthouse of Steinway Tower, Manhattan’s ultra-thin supertall tower, has hit the market at $110 million.
Hayes Davidson
Penthouse atop world’s skinniest skyscraper is now on the market for $110 million
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Bell & Ross
Watches and Wonders 2025: 11 striking designs from the world’s largest watch fair
‘Horological genius’: World’s most complicated wristwatch unveiled
Vacheron Constantin
World’s ‘most complicated’ wristwatch unveiled
Among the items going under the hammer is a 100 ducat gold coin of Ferdinand III of Habsburg, which was minted in 1629.
Courtesy Flint Culture
$100 million coin collection, buried for decades, up for auction
Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan's rookie jerseys are set to go up for auction later this year.
Sotheby’s
Michael Jordan’s and Kobe Bryant’s first-ever NBA jerseys expected to sell for $10 million apiece
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As We Are
A series about the origins of certain societal standards and the forces rapidly expanding our definition of beauty today.

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Marina Abramović. <em>The Great Wall Walk.</em> 1988/2008
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A couple walked from opposite ends of China’s Great Wall and met in the middle. Then they broke up
In 1988, the artist and her lover trekked from opposite ends of the Chinese landmark and met in the middle. Her new exhibition revisits the epic 90-day performance.

Photography

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Cecilia Blomdahl
What life is like in one of the remotest places on Earth
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Khashayar Javanmardi 2024 courtesy Loose Joints
Striking photographs document environmental decay on world’s largest lake
Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2024. A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
In this birthday party portrait, teenage girls celebrate in secret in Afghanistan
A young woman and her customer photographed by Mary Ellen Mark. The late American photographer gained remarkable access to Mumbai's red light district in the 1970s.
Mary Ellen Mark
A photographer gained rare access to Mumbai’s red-light district in the 1970s. Here’s what she saw
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In Gregory Crewdson’s photographs, an enduring, haunted vision of American life
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The mysterious New York nanny who helped shape 20th-century street photography