CNN – Style

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A couple in New Zealand may have grown the world’s largest potato without even trying. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, from Ngāhinapōuri in the country’s Waikato region, found the tuber growing in their garden when they were getting ready for the spring planting season. “It was literally one of nature’s pleasant surprises,”

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Is it an egg, a blimp or a bullet? Whatever you might want to call the shape of the Otto Celera 500L, it’s one that catches the eye. It looks like no other plane out there, and for a good reason: unique aerodynamics. The shape of the Celera is designed to

Richard Quest and Leroy Ah Ben, CNN On the shoreline of the Dead Sea, Jordanian comedian and national treasure Nabil Sawalha strides chest-deep into the water, with all the confidence of a swan to a lake. “It loves you, the water here, it hugs you,” he says as he allows the sea to collect his

Thomas Page and Lydia Armstrong, CNN Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer” gives off “The Shining” vibes long before we see two women in matching outfits walking in step down a corridor. The neat Kubrickian symmetry, the oppressive setting, the stifling presence of others, of ritual, of duty — it’s all there in Larrain’s imaginary take on Princess

Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN When Uruguayan fashion designer Gabriela Hearst was announced as the creative director of luxury fashion house Chloé in December last year, those familiar with her work knew it spelled change for the 70-year-old French brand — especially given the maison’s CEO, Riccardo Bellini, had already indicated he was looking to take

By AJ Davis, Karol Suarez and Matt Rivers, CNN A hotel in Mexico popular with American tourists was sent into chaos Thursday amid reports of gunfire. According to local authorities, a confrontation between drug dealers had exploded into lethal violence on a beach nearby. “There was a confrontation between members of hostile groups of drug

Jack Guy, CNN A country estate in southwest England is up for sale for £4.95 million ($6.7 million), and the new owners could be obliged to receive a royal visitor at short notice. Brimptsmead is a six-bedroom Edwardian family home that sits in 9.22 acres of land in Dartmoor National Park, boasting paddocks, woodland and

Julia Buckley, CNN Paris, Rome, Barcelona… Europe’s cities are bucket list destinations, and rightly so. But the continent’s small towns are a dream, too, with all the beautiful architecture and much of the culture you’ll find in the big hitters, only with fewer crowds to share them with. Here are some of the prettiest small

Oscar Holland, CNN A new property development in Austin, Texas, is set to become the world’s largest community of 3D-printed homes. Scheduled to break ground next year, the project will feature 100 single-story houses “printed” on-site using advanced robotic construction and a concrete-based building material. Digital renderings of the neighborhood, unveiled last week, show rows

Megan C. Hills, CNN Macaulay Culkin often shirks the spotlight, but he made a surprise appearance Tuesday as a runway model for Gucci. Joined on the catwalk by stars-turned-models Jared Leto and Jodie Turner-Smith, the “Home Alone” actor looked at ease in a vibrant outfit as the label took over Hollywood Boulevard for its Gucci

By Josh Campbell and Pete Muntean, CNN A Southwest Airlines pilot is accused of assaulting another crew member following a mask dispute last month in San Jose, California, according to information received from the airline and local law enforcement. The October 18 incident occurred at a Doubletree hotel bar and “involved a disagreement over mask