Oshea Herbals sent over two lipsticks from its Colors range for us to test side by side, the Bullet Lipstick in Morning Glory and the HD Matte Lip Color in Tinch Of Mocha, and putting them next to each other made the gap between them impossible to ignore. The Bullet Lipstick in Morning Glory is where the trouble starts. Oshea markets this range on a creamy matte finish that hydrates and softens with castor oil, but the pigmentation does not back that up on a single swipe. One
Omar Mansoor’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection, The Living Loom, brings handwoven khaddar from Kamalia into contemporary fashion through modern silhouettes and Pakistani textile heritage.
The collection draws from embroidery traditions, Indian symbolism and motifs that have appeared across the designers’ work, while Dimple Kapadia returns as its muse, continuing a relationship with the house that dates to its earliest years.
Jaume Plensa’s Beyond Silence, now on view at GRAY Chicago, brings together three distinct bodies of sculpture through a study of scale and material. The exhibition includes two 28-foot carved-wood reliefs, three seven-foot sculptures combining cast iron and granite, and a group of smaller bronze works from the Twilight series. It is Plensa’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery and remains on view through December 19, 2026. The two monumental reliefs, Beyond Silence (Julia
Daniel Minter’s sculptural practice is rooted in the relationship between material, memory and ancestry. His work in Thresholds, currently on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, places carved and assembled objects within a wider conversation about Black cultural memory, bringing contemporary work into dialogue with African objects from the museum’s collection. Running through December 19, 2026, Thresholds brings together Minter with Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Portia Cob
At Mariane Ibrahim in Chicago, Clotilde Jiménez explores family history, memory and inherited silence through painting, collage, drawing and sculpture.