CNN – Style

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Christian Friese was standing in the arrivals area in Honolulu Airport, Hawaii, peering at a large airport map. “You are here,” read the sign above the map. Christian was assessing the airport layout, working out where she needed to go next, when, out of the corner of her eye,

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Tourists to the Galapagos Islands will be asked to pay twice as much in entry fees from this year amid concerns that a rise in visitor numbers is putting pressure on the ecologically sensitive destination. Ecuador’s Ministry of Tourism has announced the new fees, which will take effect on

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Nine years ago, Sethembile Msezane stepped on top of a plinth, wearing a black body suit and stiletto heels, her arms adorned with wings she fashioned out of wood, velvet, and hair. Behind her, a statue of a man can be seen being lifted in the air. “Chapungu —

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A football floats on the surface of the Atlantic Sea; it looks like new from above the water, but below a huge collection of barnacles have attached themselves to the ball. The image, taken by Ryan Stalker, was chosen as the grand prize winner for the 2024 British Wildlife

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — Royal Caribbean is suspending cruise ship ports of call in Labadee, on the northern coast of Haiti, as violence escalates in the Caribbean country. “The safety and security of our guests, crew, and communities we visit are our top priority. Our Global Security and Intel Team is closely monitoring

By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial aircraft, has been making a rare journey – floating down New York’s Hudson River. The British Airways Concorde, one of only 20 of the supersonic aircraft to ever fly, has been en route back to NYC’s Intrepid Museum after being sanded and recoated during

By Steffi Cao, CNN (CNN) — At the turn of the millennium, web-based technology was in a state of chrysalis. Google was just one of several mainstream search engines, not yet a monopolistic empire. Dial-up internet (and its iconic dial tone) was still a thing in many American homes. File-sharing services like Napster and LimeWire

By Atika Shubert, CNN (CNN) — Valencia has long been one of Spain’s sunniest cities, thanks to its prime location on the Mediterranean. Now, it can also claim to be the most sustainable after winning the coveted Green Capital of Europe title. The European Commission cited Valencia’s 5 million square meters of green space. According

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — In a man’s world, Katharine Hepburn often wore the pants. The Hollywood leading lady and trailblazer defiantly embraced menswear staples, amid incredible pressure not to, paving the way for comfort-loving, power-dressing women decades on. Who could forget the sleek velvet smoking jacket and pants she wore in “Woman of

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — While there was an abundance of daring looks at the Oscars red carpet this year, one of the evening’s most memorable outfits came from Hollywood newcomer Sandra Hüller. The German actor’s arresting performances in “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest” — two movies nominated for the

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Here’s something for serious stamp collectors only. This summer, philatelists will have a chance to snag the rarest US stamp ever: the 1868 one-cent “Z-grill.” Interested? It’ll cost you (more than) a pretty penny. On June 14, the one-cent Z-grill will be put up for sale by Robert A.

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — As she prepared for a risky spine operation around 18 months after sustaining injuries in a horrific 2011 car accident that left her in constant pain, Pamela Holt made a promise to herself. Not only would she be able to travel again within six months, she would make it

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — What makes a street “cool?” Is it a plethora of restaurants, bars, cafes you can spend hours dipping in and out of? Is it independent stores, selling wares you won’t find anywhere else? Or is it just a general vibe, a friendly warmth that’s hard to pin down, but

By Trey Taylor, CNN (CNN) — After a first intervention for the fashion house’s seismic creative director John Galliano failed, Dior’s then-CEO Sidney Toledano staged a second, more serious one. It was February 2011, shortly before Galliano was set to debut what would become his final collection for Dior at Paris Fashion Week, and the

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The disastrous Willy Wonka-inspired experience held in Glasgow, Scotland, last month has already been immortalized in an endless stream of meme-orabilia that will forever live on a corner of the internet. And now, some of the physical memorabilia that provided sparse decoration for the event’s venue has been preserved

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — For more than a decade, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has been the driving force behind plans to build Titanic II — a replica of the ill-fated ship that sank in 1912 with more than 2,200 people on board. Only about 700 survived, making it the world’s most

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — A man trying to swim to shore after his recreational sailboat capsized at Everglades National Park suffered an apparent bite from an American crocodile, according to a National Park Service news release. Rangers responded around 4:43 p.m. Sunday to a report that the man was observed going under water

By Lyn Slater (CNN) — In the fall of 2019, I received an e-mail from a group of Parsons Fashion Design and Society MFA students who had been given the assignment to make a collection of clothes for “seniors,” as part of a course that involves creating designs that focus on disabled, plus-size, transgender and

By Dimitris Sideridis, CNN (CNN) — For miles on end, there is nothing but huge swathes of desert and the burning blue of the sky. In this corner of southeastern Qatar, nestled within the stunning Inland Sea nature reserve, the silence is only broken by the soft rustling of the wind and maybe the hum

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Ever since her 2020 birth, Fu Bao has been one of South Korea’s biggest celebrities, with fans eagerly following every milestone of her life at Everland Resort’s Panda World, a theme park in Yongin city. But the country’s most famous and beloved giant panda is set to bid South