Can relatively slow phones with a large battery, like the Xiaomi Redmi 15, actually be a good choice for budget-conscious gamers? Gamers who want to enjoy titles in their full glory on the go need a powerful phone. Or is it more sensible to focus on long battery life in order to play through the…
Can Miuccia Prada do for the lowly apron what she did for bras? Miu Miu is still the hottest brand out there, with revenues up 49 percent in the first half of the year, its lock on the number-one spot on Lyst’s ranking intact — and surely the brand that propelled the skimpy-top trend that…
“How would a Chloé girl wear a couture dress today?” Chemena Kamali, the house’s creative director, said just before the show, answering her own question. “She would wear it in cotton, and she would wear it without the lining.” Since arriving at the creative helm of the Paris house two years ago, Kamali has set…
Color-field painters are having a moment during fashion month: After an Ellsworth Kelly hung front-and-center at Loewe on Friday, Albert Kriemler on Sunday displayed a supersized replica of a Leon Polk Smith folding-screen work, signaling the inspiration for his spring Akris collection. Kriemler discovered and acquired the work after seeing it at a 2023 Zurich…
T-Mobile said that its T-Satellite Starlink data service will hit phones in October, and it has now made good on that promise with a drastic phone model support expansion. T-Satellite launched its data service ahead of schedule on select handsets like the Google Pixel 10 series, or the Samsung Z Fold 7 and the Z…
The electric Tesla Model Y SUV (Image source: Tesla) After months of decline in Sweden’s EV market, Tesla has staged a strong comeback. The Model Y surged back to first place with a 492% jump in September registrations, while used Teslas are also regaining value and lifting the resale market. Tesla has had a difficult…
“Trying to build a new kind of elegance — but for now,” Miuccia Prada said above the backstage din after a Prada show that took an agnostic stance toward the occasion, function and purpose of garments. About occasions, she and Raf Simons opened their show with uniforms, pairing short-sleeve military shirts and sharply pleated trousers…
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…
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu However, Camera Coach—which launches in a preview (sort of like a beta)—has a “Get Inspired” button that uses generative AI to deliver some photos it thinks you might like to try and mimic. These photos are often quite a bit different from the originally scanned image, and I found these less helpful….
Google and T-Mobile pulled a surprise Starlink data-capable phone announcement during the presentations of the new Pixel 10 series of handsets at the Un-carrier. Big Magenta said that the newest Google Pixel phones will be the first that can take advantage of Starlink satellite Internet data connectivity after the Pixel 10 series release date on…