Interparfums saw its sales increase by 5.8% in the first half of the year to EUR 446.9 million (USD 525 million), with business remaining ‘solid’ in the United States, but the group could raise its prices again on the American…
French luxury group LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Moët Hennessy) saw net profit plummet 22 percent in the first half of 2025, the company announced Thursday, June 25, blaming the plunge on an “unsettled economic and geopolitical” backdrop. Cosmetics and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. There is a profuse longing for the foreseen. At least since the pandemic, I have…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in my first pregnancy, about three years ago, I did a thing that a lot of pregnant women do. I picked up my phone and scrolled through videos of pregnant…
Image Credit: Scott Yamano/Netflix Twenty-nine years after Happy Gilmore came out starring the one and only Adam Sandler, Happy Gilmore 2 brought back its original cast and a few familiar faces! Led by the comedian, co-writer and co-producer, the sequel…
Image Credit: Danielle Masucci In the heart of Hollywood, very few newcomers achieve significant achievements so quickly. Mexican actor Alex Peña, who arrived in Los Angeles in October 2023, is proving to be a compelling exception, by landing a role…
Image Credit: James Dittiger/USA Network The list of canceled television shows is growing this year. The Syfy series Resident Alien has been canceled by USA Network ahead of the season 4 finale. Based on the Dark Horse comic book of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a legal strategy known as the small-penis rule, wherein an author who writes a character based on a real person can potentially evade a libel suit by giving said character…
Hunter S. Thompson once said, “Without gambling, I would not exist.” Well, neither would some of our favorite blockbuster movies. It may interest you to know that some top Hollywood movies are based on true-life casino tales. However, beyond the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Charles Frederick Worth, the nineteenth-century designer widely credited as the inventor of haute couture, was not a modest man. “Madame, on whose recommendation have you come to me?” he is said…