LVMH posted strong revenue growth as the world’s largest seller of luxury goods defied disruptions from the war in Ukraine and the resurgence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, a potential harbinger for the rest of the industry.

JAPANESE Global Retailer Uniqlo has launched a new Innerwear collection of wireless bras for Spring/Summer 2022.

JEWELRY brand Cartier — “the jeweler of kings and the king of jewelers” according to King Edward VII, who showered his wife, Alexandra of Denmark, and many other favored women with items from the jeweler — was no slump at Geneva’s Watches & Wonders 2022, showing how they remade their (ostensibly) utilitarian watches into flamboyant status symbols. These were shown in an online presentation earlier this month.

IT’s a credit to the developers that even those outside of the intended audience find lots to appreciate about Gran Turismo 7. If nothing else, it brings gamers back to a simpler time, when simply basking in the thrill of fast cars roaming in picturesque countrysides could not but be the ultimate objective in and of itself.

GMA and ABS-CBN and several of their talents were honored at the Reader’s Digest Trusted Brands Awards 2022, with ceremonies held on April 8.

LOS ANGELES — Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third chapter in the Harry Potter spinoff series, collected a muted $43 million in its domestic box office debut.

THE SECOND season of the Indonesian adaptation of the drama series Pretty Little Liars premieres this month on PCCW’s pan-regional OTT video streaming service Viu in its original language and a Filipino dub.

NEW YORK —  The personal and professional life of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is being shared in a new experience titled, Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure in New York City.

JERUSALEM — Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims through the ages.

WITH only a few days before the national elections, Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) is streaming its timely play, Doc Resureccion, a filmed performance.

“IF you remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there.” This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of Woodstock and Beatlemania may be etched into cultural memory, but Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits reveal a darker side to the swinging ’60s that turns our nostalgia on its head.

AFTER TWO years of cancellations due to the pandemic, Instituto Cervantes, the cultural arm of the Embassy of Spain, brings back the tradition of celebrating the Día del Libro (International Book Day) on April 23.