If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Michelle Obama’s style has been scrutinized in countless op-eds and social-media deep dives since she first entered the public eye in 2008. Almost two decades later, the former First Lady is rewriting the narrative…
After 32 years, fashion designer Stan Herman is winding down his time at QVC. While designing is “always easy,” the trek to West Chester, Pa., for live shows became a bit more difficult, according to Herman. Also, after looking at footage of himself on-air, he decided, ‘You don’t want to be a little old man,…
Walking up to The Plaza Hotel’s east side entrance, Andrew Ross Sorkin is in his element. Just seconds after his arrival, he dives into what the storied hotel was like a century ago, sending me scrambling to get my recorder out. “In 1929, people would come here and it was insane — every business guy…
The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a “misperception”, according to the author of The New Geography of Innovation, a recently published book that maps the rise of new tech powers around the world excluding the US. “The geography of innovation is shifting”, the book, which…
In 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter, now known as X, stating it was to promote a “digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner.” Upon his purchase, Musk loosened content moderation policies and reinstated many previously banned accounts, including that of President Donald Trump. In this excerpt…