CNN By Jared Formanek and Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — After enduring nearly a month of heartache and anxiety, a dog owner can finally rest after her missing dog was found safely at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Saturday, according to airport officials. Delta Air Lines passenger Paula Rodriguez’s 6-year-old dog, Maia, was lost in August
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — As the newly appointed creative director of Helmut Lang, Peter Do had a not-so-easy set of tasks: Update the quintessentially cool ’90s fashion label — which, despite its continued influence, has spent a number of years spent rudderless — and fuse its aesthetic with his own. Present the collection as the first official
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland and Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — The actors’ and writers’ strikes have rendered one of the movie industry’s most glamorous red carpets eerily quiet. Celebrities have traditionally flocked to the Venice Film Festival each September, arriving at the historic Palazzo del Cinema — sometimes by boat — for premieres and the waiting cameras.
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By Laura Kiniry, CNN (CNN) — San Francisco is undeniably having a moment. Over the past year, headlines claiming the city is caught in a spiraling “doom loop” have become so prominent that a city commissioner decided to cash in on downtown San Francisco’s storefront vacancies, homelessness and opioid issues by anonymously advertising an hour-and-a-half long tour showcasing “doom and
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — From the outside looking in, Prachi Gupta’s family was the epitome of the American Dream. Her father was a doctor, her mother was a caring homemaker and she and her brother Yush were high achievers. They had settled into a grand, five-bedroom home in the Philadelphia suburbs, and never
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Bodily fluids erupt on flights across North America, the upcoming “cruise that never ends” and quiet getaways where you can escape Europe’s tourist throngs. Quiet zones Greece has started limiting daily visitors to the Acropolis because of tourist bottlenecks and “unpleasant conditions,” while next
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — As Europe continues to be squeezed by overtourism and short-term rentals mushroom to accommodate visitors, cities across the continent are noting more and more that residents are being squeezed out. Now, one of Europe’s biggest tourist destinations is taking action. The city of Florence has announced plans to ban new
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By Nick Remsen, CNN, with photos by Will Lanzoni, CNN New York City (CNN) — In the Round of 16 at this year’s US Open Tennis Championships in Flushing, New York, the number 105-ranked Borna Gojo played the formidable second seed, Novak Djokovic. Against someone as decorated and famous as Djokovic, many a player finds
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — One day you’re in, the next you’re… showing at New York Fashion Week. During the finale episode of “Project Runway: All Stars,” which aired Thursday night, the show’s judging panel awarded the big win to Baltimore, Maryland-based designer Bishme Cromartie. Cromartie, who previously competed on the show’s 17th ‘regular’
Continue ReadingBy Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Social media’s seemingly infinite stream of #expatlife content — from digital nomads in Estonia, new owners of old houses in Italy and retirees in Mexico — can sometimes paint the picture that everyone is ditching the United States for life in another country. While it’s not quite a mass exodus, the number of Americans who live outside
Continue ReadingBy Rob Hodgetts, CNN (CNN) — Travelers are running out of new places to discover, but there could be one treasure hidden in plain sight. Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast stretches for more than a thousand miles, from the northern border with Jordan in the Gulf of Aqaba to Yemen in the far south. Much of that,
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By Zinara Rathnayake (CNN) — When Kolamba first opened in 2019, many diners who walked into the charming eatery in central London’s Soho district weren’t familiar with Sri Lankan cuisine. They thought it was just like Indian food, says the restaurant’s co-founder, Aushi Meewella, who grew up in Sri Lanka. “We felt Sri Lankan food
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In Miami, a city where most of the coastal metropolis’s skyline shimmers in silver or reflects blue skies and water through glass, a fashionable newcomer will be outfitted in black and ivory, and topped with an elaborate gold crown. Like the boning on a luxe corset, matte black steel
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By Alex Rees, CNN New York (CNN) — While Naomi Campbell is widely reputed to be among those supermodels and industry figures for whom the term “fashionably late” is, well, an expectation, on this occasion she arrived early. On Tuesday night in New York City, Campbell debuted a collection designed with the fast-fashion brand PrettyLittleThing
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Alison Sinclair’s trip to Turks and Caicos was supposed to be one of the best times of her life. But while on an island getaway with her best friend, she skipped beach time and swimming in favor of the bar, getting so drunk every day that she alienated her
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Splashing out an apartment in the south of France and renovating it yourself may sound like a difficult – and hugely expensive – task. But this couple have managed to do it twice, all while on a relatively tight budget. Eric Freeze, originally from Canada, and his wife Rixa,
Continue ReadingBy Lamide Akintobi, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Architect Tosin Oshinowo is no stranger to versatility. She has designed one of the largest malls in Lagos, Nigeria, beach houses on the city’s coast and homes for internally displaced people in the north of the country. She also runs a bespoke furniture design company, and the
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Death Valley is the driest national park in the United States, receiving an average of about 2.2 inches of rain a year. It’s also regarded as the hottest place on Earth. So it might come as a bit of a shock to learn the park been closed for more
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By Ayanda Ntuli, CNN (CNN) — Featuring Idris Elba, Angela Bassett and Naomi Campbell, the latest edition of the prestigious Pirelli calendar is the first to have been shot by a Black photographer in its more than half-century history. Prince Gyasi, a 28-year-old Ghanaian visual artist, is also the first African to receive the prestigious commission, which
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By Carlie Porterfield (CNN) — A vast collection of art, furniture, silver, ceramics, and jewelry long held in the private collection of the Rothschild banking dynasty sold for more than $62.6 million over several auctions at Christie’s New York. The sales, which concluded on Tuesday, marked the first dedicated auction in North America of works
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