Earlier this year, when Veronica Zhai was preparing to launch her bespoke luxury brand Zhai, she knew her marketing budget would be tight. Agencies and seasoned brand strategists charged anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000 a month, beyond what she could afford before she’d brought in any real revenue. So Zhai turned to ChatGPT. “AI does…
The counter-terrorism operations, in which seven Iranian nationals were arrested, is the lead for a number of the papers. The Telegraph says there is speculation that the target may have been a synagogue, external or somewhere else linked to the Jewish community. It also reports that the attack was “foiled” only hours before it was…
First, there was the cover of the American arts and culture title Cultured, which saw The White Lotus’s Walton Goggins louchely slumped on a yacht’s deck, arm out, cig dangling from the lips, shooting a smoulder gaze straight down the lens. Oh yes, and legs splayed, the goods just about concealed by a pair of…
✕ Standing out from the crowd is all about the company you keep. If your immediate neighbors are generic housing towers, attracting attention is easy in Hong Kong. But when you’re located between Central and Admiralty, with I.M. Pei’s twistingly triangulated Bank of China and Paul Rudolph’s “look-at-me!” Lippo Centre right next door, not to…
When Hong Kong culture minister Rosanna Law Shuk-pui revealed at a recent Legislative Council (Legco) panel meeting that she was a licensed scuba diver, many were surprised, not only by her extracurricular qualification, but also the fact she actually dives in Hong Kong. The secretary for culture, sports and tourism was responding to a lawmaker’s…
On Monday night, the party of the year will ask the question: can Vogue keep diversity in fashion in Trump’s America? The Met Gala, the knotty point where fashion meets politics, will be in the spotlight. The annual event has become a pop cultural phenomenon by reinventing party dressing as a world of internet-breaking daredevil…
Domingo has had a stellar year. But he’s been making waves on the red carpet for many prior. In 2017, the actor partnered with stylist duo Wayman and Micah, and began leaning into bold, playful looks. In this, Domingo helped to spearhead the menswear style shift away from boring black and navy suits towards more…
Human rights groups have condemned the arrest of relatives of Anna Kwok, an exiled pro-democracy activist who is wanted by the Hong Kong police, in the first example of the city’s national security law being used to target the family members of an activist living overseas. Kwok, 28, is the executive director of the Washington-based…
NEW YORK — Pharrell Williams has high hopes for the Met Gala, the first to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme. “I want it to feel like the most epic night of power, a reflection of Black resiliency in a world that continues…
After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported on April 26 — has been controlled. The well had been leaking oil and natural gas in a 30 to 40-foot-high…