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Culture

What Consent Means When Everyone Around You Is Filming

The creator economy runs on capturing real life, often in places and moments no one agreed to share. As audiences grow tired of feeling like extras in someone else's video, the unspoken deal that let influencers film first and ask never is quietly falling apart.

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Style

New York's Cult Denim Label Still Here Is Finally Heading West

The husband and wife behind Still Here built a downtown Manhattan obsession one perfect pair of jeans at a time, without collaborations, without sales, and without any grand plan for stores. Now, with revenue up tenfold in three years, they are opening their biggest shop yet and taking the brand to Los Angeles.

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Style

Why Exclusive Access, Not the Birkin, Is Now the Ultimate Status Symbol

For decades, the surest sign of having arrived was owning something almost no one else could. In a world where every luxury object has already been photographed a million times, real status has moved somewhere harder to reach, the rooms you can walk into, the trips you are invited on, and the circles that quietly decide who belongs.

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Entrepreneur Irina Biss in a crystal embellished gown at a seaside event at sunset
Lifestyle

How Irina Biss Turned Reinvention Into a Business Model

Most entrepreneurs build a business around a product or a market opportunity. Irina Biss built hers around a question, what if the most valuable investment a person can make is in becoming the next version of themselves? From leadership events at Davos and Cannes to a global coaching platform, that idea now anchors everything she creates.

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Culture

How Christel Henon Traded a Law Career for the Freedom of Cinema

After more than 25 years as a lawyer, the Luxembourg based producer built a film company that would go on to co-produce a Palme d'Or winner. Christel Henon says the pull was simple, the freedom that cinema offers, and her legal past turned out to be the steadiest foundation for a chaotic industry.

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Luxury industry executives gathered at the Amazon Ads and Vogue Business session during Cannes Lions
Style

How Amazon Wants to Turn Premium Streaming Into the New Luxury Storefront

At a private Cannes Lions session, Amazon Ads and Vogue Business made the case that the path to a luxury purchase now runs through the living room. Their argument, backed by a survey of more than a thousand affluent shoppers, is that a great show does more for a brand than another post in the feed.

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An enigmatic surrealist oil painting by Elena Von Kohn of figures on a plank suspended over water beneath a pale sky
Culture

How Elena Von Kohn Built a New Language of Enigmatic Surrealism

The German-born, Moscow-trained painter does not set out to depict dreams. She wants her canvases to leave you with the feeling of having just woken from one, holding a truth you cannot quite put into words. She calls it enigmatic surrealism, and it has made her one of the more distinctive voices in contemporary art.

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Entrepreneur and investor Alexander Spellane wearing a gold watch on a balcony at dusk
Style

Why Alexander Spellane Thinks the Smartest Assets Are the Ones You Wear

For the entrepreneur and investor Alexander Spellane, a fine mechanical watch is more than an accessory. It is a wearable asset, something you can enjoy every day while it quietly holds its worth, and he argues the discipline behind the best watch brands is the same discipline that builds a lasting business.

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Aerial view of the Romazzino, A Belmond Hotel, at dusk on the Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo
Lifestyle

Maxim Berin Behind Porto Cervo's High-Profile Big Art Festival: Why the Future of Luxury Is About Experiences

On August 9, 2026, the legendary Romazzino, A Belmond Hotel, overlooking the crystal-clear waters of Costa Smeralda, will once again become the stage for one of Europe's most exclusive private events. Returning to Porto Cervo for a second consecutive year, Big Art Festival presents an extraordinary evening headlined by global music icon Robbie Williams.

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Tom Holland in the Spider-Man suit, looking off camera inside a workshop
Culture

How Tom Holland Became the Highest Grossing Young Actor in the World

At 30, the British actor has anchored films that have earned around 10 billion dollars, and a single summer of 2026 could push that figure past 12 billion. The story of how a stage school kid from London became box office royalty says as much about the modern blockbuster as it does about him.

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Lifestyle

Girl Groups Are Quietly Running Fashion Now

Liquid chrome, balloon silhouettes, raw denim and tactical harnesses. In 2026 the members of pop's biggest girl groups are setting the trends that luxury houses chase, and the front row has become the new runway.

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Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo, the new creative directors of Moschino
Culture

Moschino Hands the Keys to the Sunnei Duo

Two days after its last designer exited, Moschino named Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo, the founders of cult label Sunnei, as its new creative directors. The real test comes in September at Milan Fashion Week.

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Wealth

How the Million Dollar Watch Stopped Being Rare

Sixteen seven-figure watches sold in a single New York night, and an independent maker broke ten million for the first time. Inside the 2026 auction boom that shows where serious money is really going.

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A professional standing in front of glass office towers, illustrating in-demand career paths in 2026
Wealth

The Most In-Demand Career Paths of 2026

AI engineers are the hottest hire in America, healthcare is the quiet giant, and a whole new compliance class is being born ahead of the EU AI Act. A look at the fastest-growing, best-paid career paths of 2026 and what they have in common.

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Lifestyle

How to See Mykonos at Its Best, From the Deck of a Yacht

The quietest, most honest version of Mykonos is the one you only see from the water. Inside the Momentum Yachting experience, where tailored routes, a broad fleet and a disappear-into-the-background crew turn a day at sea into the best part of the trip.

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Audemars Piguet x Swatch Royal Pop bioceramic pocket watches in pink, yellow and blue colorways
Style

What Actually Happened With the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Royal Pop

Audemars Piguet is independent, fiercely protective of the Royal Oak, and supposedly the last maison that would ever do a Swatch collab. Then it did. A detailed look at the 400 dollar Royal Pop pocket watch, the scarcity playbook behind it, and what the deal really signals.

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, arms crossed and hand to his chin, smiling at an event
Culture

Zohran Mamdani Is Hosting a World Cup Without Losing the Arsenal Fan in Him

New York's mayor is an Arsenal supporter, a Real Oviedo shareholder and a lifelong football obsessive — and now he's running the city hosting the 2026 World Cup final. How Zohran Mamdani is balancing the host's job with the fan's instincts, from water-bottle fights to ticket-price battles with FIFA.

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Models in Ralph Lauren Spring 2027 menswear at the Milan show — a navy blazer with green shawl knit and a peony bouquet, layered madras plaid, and an orange cable-knit bomber over a plaid kilt
Style

Ralph Lauren Brings Lake Como Prep to Milan for Spring 2027

Trading his usual antique car for a mahogany speedboat, Ralph Lauren staged a Spring 2027 menswear show in Milan that split the difference between sun-bleached Polo prep and lived-in Purple Label luxury — and drew a front row from Lewis Hamilton to Colman Domingo to prove the point.

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