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Laura Dern Pairs a Floral Dress With Low-profile Vivaia Sneakers in Venice
Laura Dern found the ideal sneaker to wear with a summery dress. The Oscar winner was spotted at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido pier during the 83rd...
Medicube’s Latest Booster Pro X2 Skin Care Gadget Changed My Skin (And Dare I Say My Life?) — Here’s How
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 You will never...
LVMH Prize Taps Jennifer Lawrence, Priyanka Chopra and Urassaya Sperbund as Presenters
POWER OF THREE: LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has tapped a trio of star presenters for its LVMH Prize ceremony in Paris on Friday. Dior ambassador Jennifer Lawrence will...
Sarah Burton’s Givenchy Shark Pinch Boot Is Poised to Be One of Fall’s Must-have Shoes
Sarah Burton has reimagined a fan-favorite Givenchy shoe for a new era. Enter the Shark Pinch boot, teased on the fall 2026 ready-to-wear runway in Paris earlier this year....
World
Reporting the Big World
Ascherson may not have known it, but he was establishing the pattern of his career, and indeed his life: an engagement with the world driven by conscience and curiosity,...
Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair
Performances alternated between two stages—Marigold and Dandelion—without overlap, in theory giving all forty-five thousand attendees a shot at laying eyes and/or ears on every set. In practice, this worked...
Five Great Campus Novels
“Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,” Randall Jarrell writes in his 1954 satire, “Pictures from an Institution.” In the...
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
What do we hope to communicate when we film and photograph food? In his 1957 collection, “Mythologies,” Roland Barthes argued that food photography was often an exercise in whitewashing:...
Business
Vance says US-Iran fighting isn’t ‘war’, avoids giving timeline, end date
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday rejected the use of the word "war" to describe the US fighting with Iran as he steered clear of predicting that the six-month-old...
Volkswagen board approves plan to cut 50K more jobs, close 4 German plants
The plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume to counter low-cost competition in China and headwinds from US tariffs overcame resistance from employee representatives | Image: Reuters1 min read...
Gold steady before US payrolls data, heads for small weekly gain
Published Fri, Sep 4, 2026 · 10:00 AM[BENGALURU] Gold held steady on Friday (Sep 4) and was poised for a small weekly gain, as attention turned to highly awaited...
Hicksville woman loses nearly $1M in alleged elder scam; Queens woman arrested
A Queens woman was arrested and charged with attempted grand larceny after a 70-year-old Hicksville woman was allegedly persuaded to send nearly $1 million as part of an elder...
News
Hegseth and Co. Are Trying to Steal Other Agencies’ Funds, Dems Say
“This secretive attempt to siphon research funds away from NIH is outrageous. The interagency agreement needs to be terminated immediately,” DeLauro said. “These funds were provided for lifesaving medical...
Pentagon Mysteriously Pulls Hegseth’s Testosterone Screening Memo
“The draft (document) published on September 2, 2026, has been temporarily rescinded to allow for updates,” an anonymous official told Reuters. The reversal leaves the status of the controversial...
Trump Secretly Planning to Ramp Up Iran War After November Elections
President Trump is planning to escalate military action against Iran after November, as his inner circle scrambles to keep him from escalating the Iran war before the midterms. Reuters...
“Year of Murders”: Trump’s Boat Strikes Killed Hundreds of Civilians
Trump: "On 11 separate days more than 3 million travelers flowed through the American flies they. They, uh, American skies were loaded up with planes." pic.twitter.com/Cag833amM0— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)...
Beauty
Volkswagen board approves plan to cut 50K more jobs, close 4 German plants
The plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume to counter low-cost competition in China and headwinds from US tariffs overcame resistance from employee representatives | Image: Reuters1 min read...
Ultrahuman raises $70 mn to build new human-computer interface for health
Ultrahuman, a health-intelligence company developing technology to help people better understand and manage their health, said it raised $70 million in new financing. The round included Qualcomm Ventures, Labcorp,...
GIFT-IFSC based funds’ commitment crosses $45 billion, shows data
The fund management ecosystem at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) continued to expand in the April-June quarter, with cumulative funds raised by non-retail schemes in the International Financial...
HDFC Bank at risk of losing top Nifty spot to ICICI amid leadership turmoil
Representative Image Credit: Bloomberg2 min read Last Updated : Sep 03 2026 | 10:29 AM ISTBy Ashutosh Joshi HDFC Bank Ltd. is barely holding on to its position as the...
Celebrity
Vance says US-Iran fighting isn’t ‘war’, avoids giving timeline, end date
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday rejected the use of the word "war" to describe the US fighting with Iran as he steered clear of predicting that the six-month-old...
Leanwatts raises ₹18.15 crore in seed funding led by Trivest Partners
The company plans to use its seed funding towards expanding manufacturing capacity, strengthening research and development (R&D) and product development, building advanced testing and validation infrastructure, and accelerating new...
Bank stocks rise as strong FCNR (B) inflows boost liquidity outlook
Bank stocks gained on Thursday after data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday showed that they had mobilised $127.2 billion through foreign currency non-resident (bank),...
Delhi Metro: How a troubled rail project turned into a model public transit
Visuals and Text by Karan Deep Singh By the early 2000s, the need for public transit in India’s cities was becoming dire. The capital, New Delhi, already massive and sprawling,...
Culture
Fraud Prevention Draws $156M as Socure Buys Fravity
A quiet corner of financial infrastructure just repriced, because Socure raised $156 million at a $5.2 billion valuation and acquired an AI startup on the same day. Summit Partners...
Agentic Commerce: 5 Ways to Get Picked by AI Agents
Shopping agents stopped being a demo this year, and Google now completes checkout on merchant sites for shoppers through Search, AI Mode and Gemini. A buyer sets size, color...
CEO Succession Planning: What Apple’s Handoff Shows
John Ternus becomes chief executive of Apple today, completing a transition the company announced back on April 20. Tim Cook moves to executive chair, and Art Levinson, previously chair...
Vendor Lock In Bites as OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor
OpenAI said it will end Cursor’s direct access to its models on November 12, roughly two weeks after SpaceX completed its $60 billion purchase of Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere,...
Style
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come. Source link
Seeing It All Hang Out at the Fringe
As it happened, both “Dracula” and “The Waves” also turned up in a very different context: Garry Starr’s bawdy, disarming “Classic Penguins,” a one-man show that is coming to...
“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma
Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person. Source link
Fashion
Gold steady before US payrolls data, heads for small weekly gain
Published Fri, Sep 4, 2026 · 10:00 AM[BENGALURU] Gold held steady on Friday (Sep 4) and was poised for a small weekly gain, as attention turned to highly awaited...
How the influencer industry is taking center stage in Burbank
The exterior of the two-story, beige-colored building looks like any other drab office space near the Hollywood Burbank Airport. But on a recent weekday afternoon, the inside was bustling...
From $300,000 EVs to dancing bots: The El Segundo firm sliding into Tesla’s slipstream
After its multibillion-dollar bid to become the next Tesla failed, El Segundo’s Faraday Future is pivoting to humanoid robots. The company says it is applying the expertise and infrastructure...
Malaysia’s finance ministry hires adviser to assess AirAsia’s funding needs
South-east Asia’s largest budget carrier seeks fresh capital amid mounting financial pressurePublished Thu, Sep 3, 2026 · 04:39 PM[HONG KONG/KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia’s finance ministry has hired Alton Aviation Consultancy...
