The director John Waters has been collecting contemporary art for decades, and he’s built a trove full of some pretty idiosyncratic works. Take, for instance, Karin Sander’s Gebrauchsbild (2010). The artist did nothing to the canvas. She’s never been on the same continent as the canvas. She just tol

If you have an Amazon cart full of beauty products to try out because you saw them on TikTok, or a note on your phone with a long list of items that the video app inspired you to buy, you aren’t alone. TikTok is one of the best places to find style inspo, makeup-applying hacks, and honest reviews ab

Welcome to our column, “Hey, Quick Question,” where we investigate seemingly random happenings in the fashion and beauty industries.

Ever since I started doing my own laundry, I’ve been a Tide girl. It’s what my parents used and what I was told gets my clothes the cleanest. But when I became a beau

Mohamed Al Fayed makes his grand entrance to The Crown’s lavish universe in the fifth-season episode “Mou Mou,” which rewinds seven decades to the businessman’s humble beginnings selling Coca-Cola in the slums of Egypt. The flashback is ironic given that the controversial figure—who restored Paris’s

In life, a good rule of thumb is to conduct yourself in such a manner that you don’t one day find yourself being investigated by someone whose most recent job was prosecuting war crimes at The Hague. Unfortunately, it appears that either no one ever sat Donald Trump down and imparted this lesson, or

Earlier this week, increasingly angry Taylor Swift fans dominated Twitter, and videos of young women radicalizing against capitalism became a trend on TikTok. You might have even seen in real time a mass Swiftie meltdown as the Ticketmaster website crashed Tuesday morning, overloaded with demand for

Paris Hilton is getting into the memoir game. The hotel heiress and It Girl turned NFT hot shot sold a book to William Morrow imprint Dey Street Books last summer, the same publisher behind Jessica Simpson’s bestseller from February 2020. The memoir, the aptly titled Paris: The Memoir is billed as “

Self-care means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but if one thing was made clear in the past few years, understanding and tending to whatever self-care looks like for you and your loved ones is crucial. So if you’re still stumped on what to get your friends and family as we in

Spoilers ahead for the entirety of The Crown season five.

Season five of The Crown was much darker than previous seasons. (Literally, the costumes were intentionally darker.) This chapter of the popular Netflix series focused on Queen Elizabeth’s “annus horribilis,” Prince Charles and Princess Di

In the fifth season of The Crown, there’s a small, but telling moment during the scene when the royal family has learned of Mohammed Al Fayed’s renovation of the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, which he calls “Villa Windsor.” Robert Fellowes, Queen Elizabeth’s private secretary, tells the Q