Month: March 2024

From left: Coco Chanel, Rei Kawakubo, Norma Kamali, Mary Quant and Elsa Schiaparelli. Photography: Chanel By Afp Via Getty; Kawakubo By Bernard Weil/’Toronto Star’ Via Getty; Kamali By Francesco Da Vinci/Getty; Quant By Arthur Steel/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty; Schiaparelli By Sasha/Hulton Archive/GettyOr are we just looking in the wrong places? By Liz Guber Date March 28, 2024
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MacArthur fellow and National Book Award finalist Hanif Abdurraqib is a prolific poet and author, writing across genres of poetry, essay and cultural criticism to great acclaim. Abdurraqib turns his sensitive lens towards basketball in his newest work, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. With carefully constructed and imaginative prose, he immerses us
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Sir Keir Starmer has admitted Boris Johnson was “right” to propose levelling up but said he was “frustrated” by the former prime minister’s “unforgivable” failure to deliver. The Labour leader also claimed the policy, which defined Mr Johnson’s premiership, was “strangled at birth” by his successor, Rishi Sunak. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth
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Rebel Wilson knows life has no timeline.  In fact, the Pitch Perfect star dedicates part of her upcoming memoir Rebel Rising to losing her virginity at the age of 35—a story she hopes acts as an encouraging message to certain readers.  “People can wait till they’re ready or wait till they’re a bit more mature,” she told People in an interview published March
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Politicians in France are debating on a bill that would ban hair discrimination. The draft law would extend pre-existing measures to explicitly outlaw discrimination over texture, length, colour or style – particularly those with curly, coiled or no hair at all. If passed, it would make France the first country in the world to recognise
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Disgraced crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of stealing billions of dollars from his customers. He was the chief executive of FTX, which suddenly went bankrupt in November 2022 – leaving millions of users frozen out of their accounts and unable to make withdrawals. The 32-year-old
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Angela Rayner has said she will not publish the “personal tax advice” she received on the sale of her council house despite a police development over her living arrangements. Labour’s deputy leader told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she was “confident” she had done “absolutely nothing wrong” with regards to the sale of her council
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