CNN – Style

By Miquel Ros, CNN Musandam Governate, Oman (CNN) — As our tiny dhow glides serenely along the sinuous desert coastline, it’s hard to believe the glass and steel jungle of Dubai is just a couple of hours’ drive away. You won’t find a trace of skyscrapers, malls or even roads here. The only heights within

By Daniel Yaw-Miller (CNN) — The sneaker resale market is a fast-moving beast. For years, Nike’s ubiquitous Dunks would be snapped up as soon as they dropped on the brand’s sneakers app, often to be sold on the secondary market for double the price. Today, sportstyle footwear — fashion-forward adaptations of trail, running or hiking shoes

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Boarding pass? Check. Photo ID? Check. Weight? What? Passengers flying with Korean Air in the next few weeks may be asked to take one additional step before boarding – getting on the scale. However, the policy has nothing to do with body shaming. Korean Air is one of the

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — A fortnight ago, Motswedi Modiba was a South African singer showing signs of a promising career in her home country. Now she’s a breakout hit on one of China’s largest reality TV shows after wowing millions with her performance in Mandarin. Modiba, reported to be the first Black and

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Create a desert temple to whatever deity or ideals you hold true. Learn how to spin fire, or to pole dance, or to make shrink art jewelry. (Or head to the festival’s Black Rock City College of Arts and Sciences where you can study “any subject matter, however imaginary.”)

By Orla Pentelow (CNN) — In the ever-shifting fashion sphere, where trends wax and wane with the changing seasons, one particular change has caught the eye of experts of late: a gradual decline in popularity of high heels. When was the last time you spotted a teetering stiletto? Once synonymous with elegance and sophistication, the

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Snazzy new liveries have been revealed for two of NASA’s hottest aircraft projects. These upcoming planes want to be the next generation of sustainable flight – and also to look good when doing it. First there’s the X-66A, which NASA has been cooking up along with Boeing as part

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 travel craze is not letting up for the upcoming Labor Day weekend in the US, travel experts warn. “Summer travel has been hot all season long with increased travel for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. Expect the same for Labor Day,” online travel advice site The

By Rochelle Beighton, CNN (CNN) — Hydra is at first glance no different from its neighbors. Like other islands in the Aegean Sea, it has white-washed streets, fragrant jasmine-filled air and breathtaking vistas of the shimmering blue waters around it. What sets Hydra apart is its favored mode of transportation. Locals have resisted the clamor

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — In the early 1990s, on his first day of work at a fine-dining restaurant, rookie chef Simon Rogan was led out of the kitchen’s back door. Waiting for him in the alley were a box of oyster shells and a piece of sandpaper. “(The chef) wanted me to

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Alice Hawkins has never photographed her idol, Dolly Parton, but she has photographed many Dollys. One Dolly is on horseback, red heels in stirrups and blonde curls piled high on her head. In another image, two Dollys link their arms around each other’s waists, fingers fanning out with long

CNN By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — There’s a brand new spotless superstar on the scene at a Tennessee zoo. She doesn’t have a name yet, but she’s already made a big splash among her herd – she’s a giraffe without patches. The 6-foot wonder was born sans spots on July 31 at Bright’s Zoo,

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — There’s a brand new spotless superstar on the scene at a Tennessee zoo. She doesn’t have a name yet, but she’s already made a big splash among her herd – she’s a giraffe without patches. The 6-foot wonder was born sans spots on July 31 at Bright’s Zoo, a

By Juan Pérez Fernández and Roberto de la Torre Martínez (CNN) — Perhaps you have spent the past few days on a cloud over your forthcoming, well-deserved vacation, and will go back to daydreaming about them as soon as you finish this article. And the truth is that the benefits of a good vacation can

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Getting the opportunity to attend the Olympics Games is a life-long dream for many fans. Some will have been fortunate enough to have achieved this at least once. Others more than once. However, it’s safe to assume that few will have as many under their belt as Olympics enthusiast

By Anne Quito, CNN (CNN) — It’s been another hellish summer. A double whammy of the human-caused climate crisis and the arrival of El Niño has fueled soaring temperatures that have made this year downright deadly. July 2023 has been declared the world’s hottest month on record. In a recent address, UN Secretary-General António Guterres

By Nina Milhaud, CNN (CNN) — Since the birth of modernism more than a century ago, the ethos of “less is more” — a motto famously adopted by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — has become synonymous with sophistication. And nowhere was this more evident than in our homes, where the popularity of

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Few social scenarios will spark a debate more heated than wedding guest etiquette. Should dresses always be floor-length? Are plunging necklines considered inappropriate? And perhaps the single-most asked question: Can you ever wear white? Every June since 2014, Google searches querying the choice to wear white as a wedding

Mihir Melwani, CNN (CNN) — Air travel between the Hermit Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom is possible once again. Air Koryo flight JS151 from Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, arrived at Beijing’s PEK airport on Tuesday at 9:17 a.m. local time, according to the Beijing Capital International Airport website. This is the first known international commercial

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Amateur sleuths with a taste for the supernatural will be glued to their screens next weekend in a bid to try and discover the truth behind Scotland’s biggest mystery. “Monster hunters” from as far away as Japan and New Zealand will be tuning in to livestreams of Scotland’s Loch