Valentino funeral: Hollywood and the fashion industry come out to say goodbye to ‘The Last Emperor’ of fashion

Peers, supporters, successors and admirers of the late Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani paid their respects today in Rome at the couturier’s funeral.

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DateTitle 2023-05-31 Megalodon tooth necklace spotted in digital scan of Titanic wreck 2023-05-29 Ancient tombs and large mummification workshops unearthed in Egypt 2023-05-24 Last Chinese emperor's ...
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Shanghai Tower picks up 3 Guinness World Records including fastest elevator

A new tall tower has broken ground in New York City. Named the One Vanderbilt Avenue tower, the building is designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox architects, and construction officially started today. At ...
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Emma Watson: Changing the world one dress at a time

The fashion industry is on a relentless pursuit to answer the question: What does luxury mean today? When I joined the actress and activist Emma Watson on a fitting for the custom-made Calvin Klein ...
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Architects have designed a Martian city for the desert outside Dubai

Dubai is a city where firefighters use jetpacks, archipelagos are built from scratch, and buildings climb into the clouds; a slick metropolis in the middle of a vast red desert. First-time visitors ...
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Refined, rebellious and not just for girls: A cultural history of pink

Elvis Presley’s iconic 1955 Cadillac, Marilyn Monroe in a figure-hugging dress in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the sea of “pussyhats” that swarmed the Women’s March in Washington DC earlier this ...
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These next-level underwater villas are making waves

Stretching across three levels, Floating Seahorse villas include two underwater bedrooms, an outdoor sun deck, and a rooftop with a glass-bottom Jacuzzi. Around 50 floating abodes will be ready to ...
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A short history of the elevator

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.
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Has the wooden skyscraper revolution finally arrived?

Surrounded by farmland and with a population of under 10,000 people, the Norwegian town of Brumunddal might seem like an unlikely setting for a record-breaking high-rise. But soaring above the ...
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Balenciaga apologizes for ads featuring children holding bondage bears

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has apologized for featuring children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its latest advertising campaign. Shot by photographer Gabriele Galimberti, images ...
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Karate, Wonton, Chow Fun: The end of ‘chop suey’ fonts

Here’s a thought experiment: Close your eyes and imagine the font you’d use to depict the word “Chinese.” There’s a good chance you pictured letters made from the swingy, wedge-shaped strokes you’ve ...
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Archaeologists may have found Egypt’s oldest mummy

Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt. The 4,300-year-old mummy was a rich, important 35-year-old man called Djed Sepsh, archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s ...