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Chocolate brown is a perfectly sensible sneaker color. adidas has found a way to make it slightly less sensible. The new SL 72 OG in Preloved Brown dresses its narrow running-shoe shape in a mixture of warm brown and deep maroon, with pale yellow stripes and laces providing a little custard-colored contrast. So far, so autumnal. Then you notice the sparkle. Small rhinestones cover sections of the upper, catching the light between the brown panels. It's the sneaker equivalent of putting spri

Bold bedazzled nail art is on the rise, with manicures being embellished and infused with rubies, diamonds, gold and gemstones. Below, we investigate the trend

Perhaps the two masters of mass-market media are up to the task.

Nike's Air Force 1 sneaker is a well-established fixture within the fashion shoe circuit. That hasn't been up for debate since, well, ever. And now the Swoosh is taking the Air Force 1's sartorial status up a notch with a gemmed-up, flipped-out Air Force 1 that transcends the sneaker's established fashion legacy.Dark Anthracite tumbled leather gives the sneaker its moody, avant-garde aura that's reinforced through the flipped-out tongue, the go-to fixture for any shoe tr

The actor sets action filmmaking aside for a new, bizarre kind of challenge in Digger.

In celebration of our first year publishing the weekly Shopper newsletter, we crunched the numbers on the picks that most resonated with readers. In this edition of The Shopper Awards, we revisit everyone's favorite bags. Subscribe here or head to the Shopping tab for more recs. The perfect men's bag is a much-debated topic. In our weekly Shopper newsletter, we've spoken about an array of differently sized versions, for different occasions and functions, at every price point. From

At Paris Fashion Week, creative director Julian Klausner dressed models in fictional film posters and Old Hollywood accents

From fakemink archive to backfromparadise, what’s really going on with alternate artist profiles on streaming platforms?

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After sharing hopes online for a show invite earlier this year, the Miami rapper debuted a look from Daniel Roseberry’s latest runway in Paris

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Last year, Warner Bros. movies couldn't miss at the box office. This year, the studio has had a tougher time, and the upcoming "Digger" may be no exception.

The documentary 'Asco: Without Permission' premieres on PBS on Oct. 2. It follows the '70s and '80s East L.A. revolutionary art group Asco and the next generation of L.A. Chicano artists.

As host of 'The Traitors,' Cumming loves to dress up and play lord of the castle, but in Russell T Davies' limited series, his latest dramatic role, he aims to shake people up.

When the actor's not chasing bad guys across L.A. on 'NCIS,' he's taking his kids to the playground, paddleboarding and his favorite sushi joint.

L.A. Opera is set to unveil a monumental new curtain created by the Cuban-born artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. More than a year in the making, the utilitarian art work will serve as the visual centerpiece of the company's entire 2026–27 season.

With distinct Gothic-style design details and appearances in many movies and TV shows, Los Feliz's Shakespeare Bridge has become a prized neighborhood emblem.

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The jobs apocalypse hasn’t arrived. Something else is happening instead.

After realising how much of his day was filled with music, writer Nicholas Raffoul set out to understand why silence made him so uncomfortable