Coco Chanel's famous musings abound. It was the late fashion designer who famously said that "a woman about to change her hair was about to change her life"; that "fashion fades, only style remains." ...

THE DATE WAS MARCH 9, 1994. It was the night before the 1994/1995 CHANEL Autumn-Winter Ready-to-Wear runway. Karl Lagerfeld, joined by makeup directors Dominique Moncourtois and Heidi Morawetz, pored ...

There I was, kneeling on the cold concrete, watching the ribbon-cutting for a new casino opening. The manager of Bally's, Richard Cannon, hugged Wendie Green, a 31-year employee of the Belle, and the ...

The Moulin Rouge is “not a place”, the dance hall’s compere, Harold Zidler, proclaims in the opening moments of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Rather, he says, the famous French vaudeville house is a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. When I first moved to New York, I was hankering to become the chicest version of myself. I wanted to ...

A long-wearing glossy lipstick is basically an oxymoron. Glosses are inherently ephemeral—here for a good time, not a long time. But every once in a while, a new beauty product will break through what ...

Rihanna complimenting me on a fragrance is surely a moment I’ll never forget; and part of the reason I’ll keep a bottle of this in rotation forever. Funny enough, it was another chance encounter that ...

Louisiana's capital city Baton Rouge will be governed by a Republican mayor for the first time in a generation after political novice and high school football Coach Sid Edwards pulled off a stunning, ...

What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at ...

Tony Award-winner Aaron Tveit and platinum-selling singer, songwriter & actress Joanna “JoJo” Levesque play their final performance Sunday, October 13. Ricky Rojas plays his final performance this ...