A luxury experience in China: Global high-end brands bet on conceptual stores to revive...
SHANGHAI — Louis Vuitton’s latest Shanghai store is not your average luxury flagship. The 30-meter-high, ship-shaped store, The Louis, is billed as an experience,...
JD Sports, Sandro open 1st stores in PHL
SSI HAS ADDED two new brands — Sandro and JD Sports — to its portfolio, opening stores for both last week.
French brand Sandro, founded...
Paris Fashion Week: Hermès shows woven leather tops and trousers; Louis Vuitton shows India-flavored...
PARIS — Hermès’ menswear artistic director Veronique Nichanian on Saturday showed a summer 2026 collection featuring airy tops and trousers crafted from woven leather.
Models...
Celebrities, blue jeans and couture: how Anna Wintour changed fashion over 37 years at...
By Jye Marshall and Rachel Lamarche-Beauchesne
AFTER 37 years at the helm, fashion industry heavyweight Anna Wintour is stepping down from her position as editor-in-chief of American Vogue.
It’s not a...
Style (06/30/25)
Elizabeth Arden releases new capsules
ELIZABETH ARDEN released the new Visible Brightening Clearly Radiant Spot Correcting Capsules. Stored in silver capsules users pop, it’s a...
QC’s first rainbow pride film festival runs until Friday
Quezon City is screening its first-ever RainbowQC Pride Film Festival from June 25 to 27, showcasing a lineup of local and international queer films...
True to life or not, F1 movie draws on decades of drama
LONDON — The racing scenes in Brad Pitt’s new F1 movie are impressively authentic but the filmmakers have also made much of how the...
AI ‘upgrades’ to kung fu classics deserve zero stars
WHEN it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), most folks seem to fall into two diametrically opposed camps, according to several polls. There are those who believe it to be nothing less than a technological revolution that will significantly change every aspect of how we live, and others who dismiss it as the emperor’s new clothes, an ecologically irresponsible, not-ready-for-prime-time pipe dream that produces error-ridden prose and eye-sore attempts at illustration.
Reaching a wider public
“WE MUST CREATE SPACES — physical and digital — where people feel welcome. Exhibits that don’t intimidate, but rather, invite,” said Joanna Preysler Francisco, co-owner of the Provenance Art Gallery, which now has an exhibit at Makati’s Power Plant Mall.
Disney launches stage musical Hercules in London
LONDON — Disney takes London audiences back to Ancient Greece with its new musical Hercules, bringing alive its 1997 animation on the West End...
Stuff to Do (06/27/25)
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) has joined the global celebration of Pride Month with a façade lighting display that honors the diversity, individuality, and resilience of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Mega for Mega
FOR its 50th anniversary this month, Mega Prime Foods, Inc. (MPFI) — the company behind the Mega sardines brand, among other canned goods and bottled sauces — tapped “Megastar” Sharon Cuneta as its latest brand ambassador.