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10 Best Perfumes Under $10 in 2026
Ten affordable fragrance oils and sprays, tested on skin over three weeks in heat of both Detroit and Lagos.
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Ifeanyi Ikeji
Ifeanyi Ikeji is a multidisciplinary artist, editorial director, creative director, author and stylist. He grew up between two truths. American in the way he was raised. African in the way he was made. Raleigh was the backdrop, but the blood was always older than the zip code. Whether it is a sentence or a silhouette, he knows when something is not sitting right. That instinct does not change depending on the discipline.
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Loewe 180th Anniversary Is the Argument
Loewe's 180th anniversary campaign isn't really about celebrating 180 years. It's about what luxury houses do when new creative directors inherit old names: use history to manufacture trust before it's earned
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Dress Watch Revival 2026: The Oversized Era Is Over.
“Elegance is Simplicity.” Cristobel Balenciaga
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Quiet Luxury Is Dead. What Replaced It Is More Interesting.
Quiet is also a costume. It just costs more to look like you are not wearing one.
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Before the Devil, There was Cruella.
Glenn Close nearly fainted in the corset. She fought to keep the clothes. We gave the credit to someone else.
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The Court Has Always Known What to Do With Her
None of this is coincidence. Osaka has said in interviews that she thinks of her on-court looks as chapters in a story she is writing for herself. She is her own author in a sport that has historically asked Black women to be grateful narrators of someone else
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The Reckoning Season
The forecasters had been watching. WGSN and Coloro, whose trend intelligence informs production timelines for brands planning two and three seasons ahead, named ‘Redirection’ as their overarching theme for the 2026-27 period.
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The Algorithm as Creative Director.
If you’re cute on Instagram, it will sell. — Simon Porte Jacquemus. There is a question no one in the fashion industry wants to answer out loud: who is actually making the clothes? Not the designer whose name is stitched into the lining. Not the studio team in
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The Only 5 Beauty Products I Actually Used Until the Very Last Drop This Year.
There is a difference between products you buy and products you actually finish. I test a lot. Most things get halfway used and quietly retire to the back of the shelf. These five did not. I scraped the container, squeezed the tube, and got every last drop. Th
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Consumption Chic: Fashions oldest lie is back
Before the Instagram algorithm, before the runway photographer, before the glossy editorial spread madelooking sick look aspirational, there was a disease that killed one in seven people in Europe and theUnited States. It hollowed its victims from the inside o
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The Show Is Not the Clothes.
“Gucci is not a fashion or a design house; it was always a trademark.” — Maurizio Gucci Maurizio Gucci said it plainly. He said it decades ago, like a confession from a man who had watched his grandfather’s dream curdle slowly into logo merchandise. The quote
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She walked Into the Room and the Room Changed-Anok Yai, the British Vogue cover star who is rewriting what the world calls beautiful.
The June 2026 cover of British Vogue does not whisper. Photographed by Rafael Pavarotti and styled by Kate Phelan in a silk-knit dress from Matthieu Blazy’s debut Chanel collection, Anok Yai stands against a green studio backdrop and looks directly into the le
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The Value of Nigerian Fashion
By Ifeanyi Ikeji Diane von Furstenberg once said: “When a woman dresses up for an occasion, she is really dressing up for herself.” But what happens when an entire industry dresses the world and cannot afford to dress itself? This is the quiet crisis living in
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The 20 Best Dressed Women at the 2026 Met Gala
They did not simply arrive. They made arguments. These are the women who worefashion the way it was always meant to be worn: as if it mattered.There is a version of the Met Gala where everyone shows up and the clothes arebea
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Everything to Know About the 2026 Met Gala: Theme, Hosts, and the Feeling You’ve Been Waiting For
The 2026 Met Gala takes place on Monday, May 4th, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art inNew York City. The theme is “Costume Art.” And yes, we will give you every last detail: thehosts, the dress code, the livestream, the host committee names you’ll want to know