By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, a pack has been circling. It began at the Schiaparelli haute couture show in Paris on Monday, when Demi Moore arrived in a cheetah print catsuit and matching coat designed by the house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry. Then at the Chanel show on Tuesday, a scene-stealing look
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Actor Paul Dano has broken his silence about Quentin Tarantino’s harsh criticism of him. The “Pulp Fiction” director launched a scathing attack on Dano during an interview with “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” in an episode released last month. During the conversation, Tarantino said his fifth favorite film of
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By Jeanne Marie Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of a proposed rule change that would require social media account information from some foreign travelers to the United States, international travel experts are saying the policy could further deter visitors from coming to the US — a decline that could translate into billions of dollars in
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “America’s Got Talent,” “The Voice,” “American Idol” — would any of them exist without “Star Search?” The iconic staple of ’80s and ’90s television laid the groundwork for today’s ubiquitous talent competition shows, with one big exception: When it came to crowning big stars, it had a tendency to
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By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist. Screenshots shared with CNN of the now-deleted blog on Tasmania Tours’
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The Beefeaters made her do it. Carrin Schottler was trying to focus on the centuries of British history at the Tower of London. Imposing white stone towers. Impressive armor. Ravens circling turrets. She was in a tour group with about a dozen people. The tour guide was talking, but
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Claire Danes has said she went into “meltdown” when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child at age 44. The “Homeland” star revealed that she burst into tears when she found out she and her husband, the actor Hugh Dancy, were expecting their third child. Speaking to
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam, Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — When musicians gather in Los Angeles on Sunday for the annual Grammy Awards, they’ll be dropping into a country in crisis. Actors, athletes and musicians have been speaking increasingly loudly about the Trump administration’s actions in Minneapolis, following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti last
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Amanda Meyer Barkley left her home in Louisiana for what was meant to be a short vacation in Prague. She planned to stay for a few weeks, then return to the United States before moving on to China for a teaching job. Nearly a decade later, she
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, Bonhams will relocate its American headquarters next month. The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The silence that has largely blanketed Hollywood since the Trump administration deployed thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis appeared to crack this weekend in the wake of the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Two celebrities known for speaking their values — “The Last of Us” star Pedro
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — Fashion is not a dignified business. It is messy, constantly changing and prone to disposability — of ideas, trends and especially people. So it was heartening to see a fashion house celebrate, with pitch-perfect dignity, the departure of one of its longtime designers at Paris Men’s Fashion
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is to join “The Great British Baking Show” as a judge, replacing the departing Prue Leith. The move was announced Monday in a statement from Channel 4, which airs the TV baking competition in the United Kingdom. It said it was “delighted to announce”
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By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — If last year’s discourse over a pink sweater was anything to go by, it’s that attitudes to masculinity are still more fragile than one might think. In late 2025, a candyfloss-colored fair isle knit from J.Crew went viral when it was dragged into the center of a
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By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name suggests, fast. When two are traveling toward each other, the distance between
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo books ever made. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” published by Aperture in 1986, follows Goldin and her friends through darkened nightclubs, daylit bedrooms, and late-night car rides around New York’s
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CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo books ever made. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” published by Aperture in 1986, follows Goldin and her friends through darkened nightclubs, daylit bedrooms, and late-night car rides around New
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — When Heather Buzzell saw the video of a federal agent in Minneapolis running toward demonstrators only to slip on ice and fall on his backside, she was inspired. “I just thought, ‘How funny would this be in nail art form?’ Almost as if it was a comic in a
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By Brad Lendon, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, sacrifice and history of World War II. Go to one and you can see the names and read the stories of those buried there, more than
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel round-up this week: why Europeans and Americans hold their forks differently, the Spanish island with more cats than people, plus a nail-biting rescue atop the highest mountain in the Alps. Destination inspiration The Italian island of Palmarola is so close to Rome that it can be
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