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Alix Earle, Victoria Villarroel and More Toast Kilian Paris in L.A.
Kilian Paris brought its latest fragrances to the Sunset Tower Hotel on Thursday night, gathering a group of Los Angeles personalities for cocktails and dinner overlooking the city. Hosted...
The Best Women’s Cross-Training Shoes to Wear to the Gym
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Cross-training — certainly a hot buzzword right now —...
Zac Posen Talks GapStudio’s Fall 2026 Collection
GapStudio on Friday introduced its fall 2026 collection featuring both men’s and women’s elevated styles across a 20-piece wardrobe designed by Zac Posen, executive vice president and creative director...
9 Best Pairs of Women’s Shoes for Travel, Whether You’re Running Through Airports or Walking New Cities
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. In this article View More Comfort when traveling...
World
Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold”
For the cover of the September 7, 2026, issue, the artist Nicole Rifkin—a musician herself—pays homage to one of America’s most beloved icons, Dolly Parton, who died on August...
There’s No Place Like Group Chats
I used to think that I was in love with loneliness, but the reality proved significantly less romantic than the concept. Because I’m not in love with being alone,...
Dolly Parton for the People
Four score and three thousand songs ago, in the middle of a whopping winter storm, a sharecropper and his young wife brought forth upon this continent a baby girl...
A Sex Tape Won’t Make You Famous Anymore
“She gonna be bigger than Kim K.!” the twenty-four-year-old Julian Newman said of his sister, Jaden, in a recent YouTube video. He sat behind the wheel of his car,...
Business
Trump to discuss high gasoline prices with US oil refiners next week
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Elizabeth Elkin, Cole Martin and Nathan Risser President Donald Trump is set to meet with US oil refining executives as he confronts persistently high gasoline prices...
Honda, Nissan to reach deal on joint development of vehicle software: report
Published Sat, Aug 29, 2026 · 09:45 AM — Updated Sat, Aug 29, 2026 · 09:46 AMHONDA Motor and Nissan Motor are expected to agree as soon as Monday...
German AfD youth wing distances itself from party’s euro exit stance
The youth wing of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is distancing itself from the party's longstanding call for Germany to leave the euro currency, saying it instead wants...
Alix Earle, Victoria Villarroel and More Toast Kilian Paris in L.A.
Kilian Paris brought its latest fragrances to the Sunset Tower Hotel on Thursday night, gathering a group of Los Angeles personalities for cocktails and dinner overlooking the city. Hosted...
News
Three Trump-Appointed Judges Deliver Major Blow to Kalshi
A federal court has dealt a serious blow to prediction markets, ruling that Kalshi can’t block the state of Nevada from regulating its platform. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Trump’s Newest Beef Idea Is Guaranteed to Make America Sick
The Marshall Islands were occupied and administered by the U.S. during World War II, and Congress granted the islands their independence in 1979. Micronesia also was occupied by the...
Trump Plans to Ditch 9/11 Ceremony for the Most Selfish Reason
President Trump won’t commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York because he wouldn’t be allowed to make a speech.The New York Times reports that...
Republican Governor Calls Out DOJ’s “Aggressive” Election Monitors
The Hope Florida Foundation is the fundraising arm of a charity, Hope Florida, started by Casey DeSantis in 2021. The organization intends to connect low-income families with churches and...
Beauty
Recovery for lenders from personal guarantors picks up: IBBI data
Data showed that lenders recovered ₹234.56 crore at the end of June, 2026 from 64 instances of debt resolution of personal guarantors since they were brought under the bankruptcy...
Purple Style Labs collects ₹306 cr from anchor investors; IPO opens Aug 31
Purple Style Labs Ltd, the parent company of Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, on Friday raised Rs 306 crore from anchor investors ahead of its Rs 680-crore initial public offering (IPO),...
Ola Electric share price surges 6% after new S1Z electric scooter launch
Ola Electric share price: Ola Electric Mobility shares surged as much as 6 per cent in trade on Friday after the company announced the launch of its S1Z electric...
Best of BS Opinion: India needs outcome-linked policy measures for jobs
Hello, and welcome to the Best of BS Opinion, our wrap of the day's Opinion page. India’s skilling challenge cannot be separated from the scarcity and quality of employment, points...
Celebrity
Trump to discuss high gasoline prices with US oil refiners next week
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Elizabeth Elkin, Cole Martin and Nathan Risser President Donald Trump is set to meet with US oil refining executives as he confronts persistently high gasoline prices...
Infosys says public services CEO unreachable after deadly Nepal flood
1 min read Last Updated : Aug 28 2026 | 11:34 PM ISTInfosys said Lax Gopisetty, chief executive officer of its public services business in the US and Canada,...
Qcom, ecom platforms see surge in premium, personalised rakhi demand
On Flipkart Minutes, festive shopping grew threefold year-on-year (YoY), with Gen Z accounting for more than 40 per cent of shoppers. Rakhi and fashion maang tikkas emerged as the...
India’s Next Global Advantage Is Mobility: Tushar Tayal Takes the Case to G20 YEA
NEW DELHI: India is increasingly becoming a country that the world does business with. The next question, according to entrepreneur Tushar Tayal, is how effectively the country can help...
Culture
AI Tools for Small Business Get a Meta Upgrade
Meta rolled out a set of AI features aimed at small businesses that connect to Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace. Owners can hand Meta...
A Recovery-Supportive Workplace Still Needs Clear Boundaries
A manager who lets every deadline slide out of sympathy isn’t running a recovery-supportive workplace. They’re running a workplace with no workplace left. Boundaries in a recovery-supportive workplace aren’t...
AI Agent Interoperability Gets a Neutral Home at Last
Google handed its Agent2Agent protocol to the Linux Foundation directed Agentic AI Foundation last week, putting it into the same governance as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. The transfer was...
US Canada Tariffs Escalate With Retaliation Set for Sept 8
Washington and Ottawa walked away from the table last weekend, and the collapse of those talks triggered 50 percent US tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada...
Style
AI Visibility Is Now a Founder Problem, Not an SEO One
ShouldEye launched a business platform this week that tracks how leading AI models describe a company, according to Practical Ecommerce’s August 26 roundup of new merchant tools. The product...
Kacey Musgraves, Crossover Queen
Also: John David Washington plays a tech bro in “Disruption,” Samara Joy and Christian McBride perform at Central Park, Jacob Elordi’s stars in Ridley Scott’s latest movie, and more....
In “Adults,” Gen Z Gets the Hangout Sitcom It Deserves
The married creators of “Adults,” Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, seem well aware of the lineage of their series. (At one point, a character played by the “Girls” star...
Small Business Grants: 5 Lessons From Jobber’s $250K
Jobber handed out $250,000 to nine commercial and home service businesses this week, announcing the 2026 recipients from Toronto on August 25. Of the six years the program has...
Fashion
Honda, Nissan to reach deal on joint development of vehicle software: report
Published Sat, Aug 29, 2026 · 09:45 AM — Updated Sat, Aug 29, 2026 · 09:46 AMHONDA Motor and Nissan Motor are expected to agree as soon as Monday...
Meta’s massive settlement may not be enough to improve child safety, experts say
Over the last five years, efforts to make social networks Facebook and Instagram safer for young people have erupted across courts, classrooms and capitals.Now Meta Platforms, the parent company...
Is Long Beach ready for a floating nuclear power plant? Here’s what to know
Worried about all the demand from artificial intelligence making power too expensive? The Port of Long Beach has an answer: little, floating nuclear power plants. America’s second largest port...
SoftBank seeks another US$10 billion loan for OpenAI stake funding
Published Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · 03:37 PM[TOKYO] SoftBank Group Corp is seeking a US$10 billion loan, as it looks for more funding to help refinance debt used for...