The cinema of Clara Law12 Images When a generation of young filmmakers harbouring bold creative ambitions and a desire to tell stories about the changing modern world stormed the Hong Kong industry in the 80s, one of the most dynamic movements in world cinema was born: the Hong Kong New Wave. But as a new…
Fashion retail, just like the rest of us, is going through a rough time right now. Every day it seems like more and more brands – from emerging designers, to established houses, to leading multi-retailers – are shutting up shop, while even massive conglomerate-backed names are suffering through monumental drops in sales. The landscape paints…
Fashion is a serious business. It makes people billions of dollars a year, it influences culture in myriad overt and subliminal ways. But when covered on film, this haute world is typically skewered, in sophisticated satires like Robert Altman’s “Pret-a-Porter” and absurdist comedies like “Zoolander.” Credit to French director Alice Winocour, then, that she approaches…
LOS ANGELES, CA, Sept. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Limitless X Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: LIMX), a diversified company operating through subsidiaries in Health and Wellness (Limitless X Inc. and BodyCor Inc.), Film and Television Production (Limitless Films Inc.), Sports Mdia (Limitless Entertainment Inc.), Digital Assets and Blockchain Innovation (Limitless Digital Assets Inc.) and High-Performance Healthy…
The cityscape of Hong Kong, which grew over the course of two centuries from a fishing village to a colonial port to a gleaming metropolis and international financial center, has long proven hard to visualize. In his classic 1997 study Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance, published just months before the region’s handover…
Sandra Hale SchulmanICT SANTA FE, New Mexico — A multi-media buffalo thundered off with the Best of Show win at the 103rd Annual Santa Fe Indian Market. Oklahoma artist Regina Free, Chickasaw, won for her multi-media bison sculpture called “Windswept” in her first appearance at the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts market. At a staggering…
Francesca Lake AW2528 Images Francesca Lake’s clothes exist along a fashion fault line, between two points of seeming contradiction. Her designs are brazenly maximalist and theatrical – voluminous bubble skirts, ruched ball gowns and dramatic headdresses have been some of Lake’s go-tos since her Central Saint Martins graduate collection in 2021. But, on the other…
Copenhagen Fashion Week SS26 took over the Danish capital (and our social feeds) this week, bringing with it an abundance of rat bags, crocheted hats and designer flip flops. Known for its cute, playful aesthetics, frills and scalloped edges, yesterday (August 7), one runway took an unexpected political turn. During Finnish brand Marimekko’s catwalk show,…
From a pioneering Emirati actress who helped lay the foundations of national television and theatre, to a Lebanese composer who soundtracked the social and political pulse of his homeland, the Arab cultural scene has been etched by significant loss in 2025. Spanning music, film, television, literature and visual arts, these 11 artists not only shaped…
“We are barely surviving,” says Hussain, a garment worker at a factory in Pakistan. “I live in a two-room house with my five children. I hardly manage my utilities on my salary, and we are living hand to mouth. The wages are not enough.” Hussain is one of hundreds of Pakistani workers making clothes for…