CNN – Style

Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — At 16, Jude Maboné often went to bed wondering whether she would wake up the next morning. She’d recently had her first heart attack — and would go on to have five more by the age of 18, spurring her to create a bucket list that included a foray into

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Tweens and young teens aren’t always clumsily playing with what is in their parent’s makeup bag anymore — they are on a mission. With a collective sigh of frustration over stores run amuck, adults on social media are now calling beauty obsessed pre-adolescents “Sephora kids.” As young as 9,

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — A Russian travel agency is advertising what appears to be the first tour to North Korea since the isolated country closed its borders due to Covid, promising a “family friendly” ski trip to a luxury resort outside the capital Pyongyang. Like many other countries, North Korea imposed strict anti-epidemic

By Jessie Yeung and Yeoul Jo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Caged behind glass, a plump raccoon runs for a few seconds on an exercise wheel before flopping back down on the floor. In the next enclosure, a pair of prairie dogs perch on logs under the glaring artificial light of an overhead lamp.

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — With her signature megawatt smile and timeless style, Julia Roberts might be a beauty icon, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously. When asked in a new interview with British Vogue what keeps her looking youthful at 56, the actor responded with a wry wit. “Pickling. I put my

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Original scripts from the long-running sitcom “Friends” that were found in a trash can 25 years ago are going under the hammer. Fans of the hit show can bid online for the scripts of two episodes, both of which focused on Ross’ wedding and were filmed in London. The

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The first known piece of mail sent using a prepaid stamp — “one of the greatest leaps forward in human communication” — could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million when it comes up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York next month. If the piece realizes its estimate,

By Zamira Rahim, CNN (CNN) — Roya Shariat doesn’t think of her cookbook “Maman and Me” as a Middle Eastern book. She co-wrote it with her mother, Gita Sadeh, and each page unfolds an Iranian-American recipe with gentle, firm affection. Some of the dishes are classically Iranian, such as the tahdigs that helped the pair

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In the city center of Tirana, Albania, residents and visitors can climb a monumental pyramid that was once the shining symbol of an oppressive dictatorship — their treading feet a triumph over the past. Reimagined by Dutch architecture studio MVRDV, the Pyramid of Tirana has been transformed from a

By Rob Hodgetts, CNN (CNN) — It’s the white gold that gives ski resorts their essence, but these days, snow is an increasingly precious commodity. Whether it’s falling from the sky in silent, fluffy flakes or being pumped out of the now ubiquitous snow cannons lining the ski runs, resorts rely on the white stuff

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — There was not a stitch of Barbie’s signature color to be seen on America Ferrera at the Governors Awards on Tuesday. The actor forwent pink for a black custom Moschino tuxedo with sleek grosgrain peak lapels, matching pants, cummerbund and bow tie. An apparent foil to her “Barbie” co-star

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Everyone has seen the videos of people — presumably normal, functional members of society — inciting desperate mosh pits in Target or acting up in Starbucks over limited edition Stanley 1913 cups. On social media, Stanley collectors show off shelves of their rainbow-hued, stainless steel treasures or gush over

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Marie Laurencin’s gauzy paintings have lived double lives over the past century. Rendered in soft pinks and grays, the French artist’s slender, sensuous figures were long viewed as coquettish and one-dimensional, despite the success she experienced in her lifetime. But Laurencin’s inclusion of enigmatic symbolism and intimate gestures —

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The past year in architecture may be remembered for superlatives after India opened the world’s largest office building and Malaysia’s Merdeka 118 became the second tallest skyscraper ever constructed. But 2023 was also a year that celebrated subtlety, with a thoughtfully designed Chinese boarding school named World Building of

By Karla Cripps, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — The rumors have finally been confirmed – season three of HBO hit TV series “The White Lotus” is coming to Thailand. In statements released this week, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and HBO announced filming on the show, created by Mike White, is scheduled to begin in

By Jack Guy and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The iconic tulle tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits of “Sex and the City” proved a star lot in an auction of “iconic” fashion pieces from film, TV and celebrity wardrobes on Thursday, selling for $52,000, more than four times its high

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In a big shakeup of a quarterly ranking of the world’s most powerful passports, an unprecedented six countries are tied in the top spot for the hottest travel documents for 2024. Citizens of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Spain can enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to an incredible

By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — The Alaska Airlines incident on January 5 that left a hole in the fuselage of a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, raised important safety questions, prompted investigations – and left some air travelers on edge. After the incident that caused

By Lilit Marcus and Veronica Lin, CNN (CNN) — For years, Americans interested in visiting China had to endure a thorough visa process, which required pre-booking hotels and flights and handing their passports over to an embassy or consulate for an undetermined period. But as of January 1, 2024, some of those restrictions have dropped

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Warm thoughts of young romance – not the cold, harsh possibilities of a Midwestern road trip in winter – were on Dawn O’Hair’s mind as she left Chicago for Indianapolis to see her boyfriend. Her weekend visit, back in the winter of 1997-98, did not go well. After a