Fashion
India seizes $180M in jewels from fugitive diamond merchants
Indian authorities have seized diamonds, pearls and silver jewelry worth $180 million as part of an investigation of a fugitive diamond merchant who is being held in London while fighting his extradition
US players Steffen, Adams express solidarity with Floyd
Americans Zack Steffen and Tyler Adams have joined several other Bundesliga soccer players in expressing their solidarity in the wake of George Floyd’s death
'Welcome Back!' Several famed museums reopen across Europe
As Europe slowly emerges from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed well over 150,000 of its people and crippled some of the world’s biggest economies, Monday let a brilliant ray shine through as some of the top museums globally reopened to flaunt their riches
Beach trash finds: Full pickle jar, vape pods, cremation bag
Empty cartridges used with electronic cigarettes, known as “vaping pods,” are showing up in increasing numbers on New Jersey's beaches
Innovative fashion designers lead the way on sustainability
A buy-and-toss mentality persists in fashion, but more consumers and people in the industry are scrutinizing how the production of goods impacts the environment
In Mexico, effeminate Zapata painting draws fury
A painting showing Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata nude and in an effeminate pose has drawn the ire of some of Zapata's descendants
Streep, Miranda and Stone are named as Met Gala co-0chairs
Next year's Met Gala may be the closest we'll ever come to getting a Miranda Priestly moment at the starry event. Meryl Streep has been named as one of the co-chairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute
Christian group tries to ban naked Joan of Arc oratorio
A Christian group is trying to prevent the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels from staging a production of Arthur Honegger's oratorio "Joan of Arc at the Stake" in which the heroine appears dressed in men's clothes and at one point naked
Greek fashion firms revitalize centuries-old silk tradition
Greece's financial crisis nearly snuffed out the country's centuries-old silk manufacturing tradition, but the end of the crippling recession has raised demand for fashion products and silk produced by a remote border town
Balmain channels 90s, Miyake debuts new designer in Paris
Balmain defied the trends in designer Olivier Rousteing's rebellious ode to the 90s, serving up an infectious soundtrack in Paris' Opera Garnier