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Luxury brands are more expensive than ever. They’re telling you why they’re worth it
Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko has resigned as dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College in New York, citing a crippling workload and a lack of empathy for black women. Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist. Seen near her home in Edinburgh, Scotland UK 15/10/2020 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. sgealbadh, A22N6S
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Lesley Lokko is on a mission to transform architecture, fostering a new generation of ‘more dynamic thinkers’
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Nike’s first Indian design collaboration nods to a 5,000-year-old tie-dyeing technique
<em>Serpentine Pavilion 2025 A Capsule in Time, designed by Marina Tabassum, Marina Tabassum Architects</em>
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From Zaha Hadid to Frank Gehry: The summertime project beloved by architects everywhere
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Princess Diana gowns star in ‘largest’ auction of late royal’s fashion
Pope Leo XIV (C) reacts wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball team cap as he meets newly wedded couples during the weekly general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 11, 2025. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP) (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Pope Leo breaks from papal dress codes — with a White Sox baseball cap
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What if your house changed color with the seasons? This ‘climate-responsive’ paint could make it happen
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Truffle-hunting and harvest dinners: How farm stays became glamorous

Arts

Georgette Chen. Self-Portrait. c. 1934.
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Asian artists were marginalized in 1920s Paris. Now their works fetch millions at auction
Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition
This painting survived the Beirut explosion. Here’s how conservators restored it
"Refreshments" by Caroline Walker.
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How motherhood is being reframed in art
John Lennon’s ‘smutty’ love letter to first wife up for sale
A family thought the sculpture on their piano was a ‘fake’ Rodin. Now it’s sold for nearly $1 million
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Derek Ridgers
‘Fun, crazy and ludicrous’ images of Cannes before camera phones
In this museum space, the objects are yours to touch
New Stalin monument in Moscow subway stirs debate

Architecture

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Shortlisted designs for Queen Elizabeth II’s official London memorial unveiled
Sidhpur, Gujarat, India - September 16, 2015: Details of the 19th and early 20th century Dawoodi Bohra buildings or Bohrawads, as known locally in Sidhpur, Gujarat. Built by the Dawoodi Bohras, a Shia Muslim trading community from Gujarat. Today more than 100 such buildings exist. All differently colored but in depleted condition. As hardly anybody lives there. Most of the building lie locked. The buildings are laid in rows of narrow, deep structures, about three to four floors high. They have a strong European character with gabled roofs, ornate balconies, pilasters, columns and decorated doors and windows.
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Indian town’s abandoned European-style mansions are a throwback to its opulent past
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Is Uzbekistan the next great architectural destination?
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Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation/The Pritzker Architecture Prize
The winner of architecture’s top prize says having signature style is ‘a double-edged sword’
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 8: The sun sets on midtown Manhattan and the Chrysler Building seen from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building on August 8, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
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Why the Chrysler Building is an Art Deco icon
Apr 28, 2025
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14680209k) The 597-meter high Goldin Finance 117 Tower, known as the world's first unfinished building, is pictured in Tianjin, China, on August 28, 2024. The construction of Goldin Finance 117 Building in Xiqing District, Tianjin, begins in September 2008, and on September 8, 2015, Goldin Finance 117 completes the main structure. Goldin Finance 117 becomes an unfinished building, stalled by Goldin's plunging market value and poor sales. World's First Unfinished Building in Tianjin, China - 30 Aug 2024
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Construction of world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper to resume after a decade
Apr 25, 2025
The Sagrada Familia has taken more than 140 years to build.
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Vatican puts Sagrada Família architect on the path to sainthood
Apr 15, 2025
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See inside Lenny Kravitz’s luxurious Parisian mansion
Apr 15, 2025

Fashion

Director Wes Anderson poses for portrait photographs for the film 'The Phoenician Scheme' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
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Wes Anderson on the secrets and struggles behind his impeccably stylish men
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 10: Este Haim, Alana Haim and Danielle Haim arriving at BBC Radio One on June 10, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/GC Images)
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Look of the Week: Haim sisters make the case for the return of the skinny jean
Angelina Jolie poses as she arrives for the premier of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 7, 2005. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)
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Remember Angelina Jolie’s bombshell leather Versace dress?
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Jane Birkin’s original Hermès bag goes on sale
Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE PAIN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14552941cg) British designer Jonathan Anderson enters the runway at the end of the presentation of the Spring/Summer 2025 Menswear Collection for Loewe fashion house during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, 22 June 2024. The presentation of the Men's collections runs from 18 to 23 June. Loewe - Runway - Men Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025, France - 22 Jun 2024
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No designer captures the zeitgeist more than he does. Now he’s taking over Dior
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This ‘Sex and the City’ dress achieved cult status. But it has controversial origins
Rebecca Black at the 2025 American Music Awards held at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on May 26, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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Look of the Week: Rebecca Black dresses for a shotgun wedding at the AMAs in Vegas
CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: Elle Fanning attends the closing ceremony red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 24, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
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All the surprising, subversive and rule-breaking looks from Cannes Film Festival

Design

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Feats of fantasy: This software engineer codes self-twirling and illuminating gowns
PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 08: A guest wears brown coat, white blouse, orange Hermes bag with a bag charm brown Labubu monster, grey pants outside the Hermes fashion show during the Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025/2026 as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 08, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Raimonda Kulikauskiene/Getty Images)
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Labubu: The ‘kind of ugly’ plush toy that has taken the world by storm
Portrait of German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969), a cigar in his hand, as he looks at a model of his design for the Toronto-Dominion Centre, Chicago, Illinois, 1968. (Photo by Hans Namuth/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images)
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A famous architect’s iconic furniture line gets its first update in decades
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Jaguar reveals first concept car after controversial rebrand
Cien Años de Soledad S1. Claudio Cataño as Aureliano in Cien Años de Soledad.
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‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: How Netflix brought the imaginary town of Macondo to life

Beauty

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Facelifts aren’t just to combat aging. Young people are using it to finesse facial features
ATTENTION: EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 01 FEBRUARY 00:01 GMT! FREI FÜR DONNERSTAGAUSGABEN - 30 January 2024, Berlin: The bust of Queen Nefertiti (around 1340 BC) is on display in the Neues Museum. One hundred years ago, on April 1, 1924, the figure of the ancient Egyptian queen was presented to the public for the first time in Berlin, having been discovered twelve years earlier during excavations in Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. (to dpa-KORR Fascination and desire - Nefertiti has been attracting visitors for 100 years) Photo: Christophe Gateau/dpa (Photo by Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Why Nefertiti still inspires, 3,300 years after she reigned
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The internet is raving about ‘nature’s Botox.’ Does it work?
Kylie Jenner attends the 2024 CFDA Awards at American Museum of Natural History on October 28, 2024 in New York City.
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Is Kylie Jenner’s surgery revelation a setback for beauty standards?
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Why men are shaving off their eyelashes
TOPSHOT - US' Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the women's 100m heat of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 2, 2024. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Fake tan, fancy nails: How marathons became a catwalk for beauty
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25 years on, Patrick Bateman’s unsettling morning routine is normal
Jayne Foo poses for a portrait on Monday, March 31, 2025.
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‘I want to reclaim my skin’: Why these people are removing their tattoos

Luxury

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This fragrance company is trying to recreate the scent of extinct blooms
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Rarity over perfection: Why jewelers are championing ‘ugly’ gems
Lady Gaga arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Hot on the red carpet: Jewelry you can’t buy
Taylor Swift at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Crypto.com Arena on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images)
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The latest trend in watches might surprise you
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, China.
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Sotheby’s postpones auction of jewels linked to the Buddha after India calls for their return
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Once cast as a dying craft, watchmaking is enjoying a quiet resurgence
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A couple walked from opposite ends of China’s Great Wall and met in the middle. Then they broke up
In 1988, the artist and her lover trekked from opposite ends of the Chinese landmark and met in the middle. Her new exhibition revisits the epic 90-day performance.

Photography

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What this Polaroid of Cindy Crawford reveals about a 1991 swimwear shoot
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What life is like in one of the remotest places on Earth
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Striking photographs document environmental decay on world’s largest lake
Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2024. A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
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In this birthday party portrait, teenage girls celebrate in secret in Afghanistan
A young woman and her customer photographed by Mary Ellen Mark. The late American photographer gained remarkable access to Mumbai's red light district in the 1970s.
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A photographer gained rare access to Mumbai’s red-light district in the 1970s. Here’s what she saw
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In Gregory Crewdson’s photographs, an enduring, haunted vision of American life