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RECENT
What Is Bakuchiol: The Indian Ayurvedic Ingredient the World Is Calling the Natural Alternative to Retinol
If you have spent any real time in skincare communities in the last few years, you will have noticed that the conversation around retinol has quietly but significantly shifted, not away from it exactly, because retinol remains the most clinically validated anti-aging ingredient in dermatology and nobody serious about skin is suggesting otherwise, but toward a growing and genuinely complicated conversation about who retinol actually works for and who it leaves behind.
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FASHION
Lena Dunham Met Gala 2026: The Valentino Gown Inspired by a Blood Spatter, a 17th-Century Painter's Survival, and Alessandro Michele's Extraordinary Eye for Detail
After seven years away from the Met Gala, Lena Dunham returned on the host committee in a custom red Valentino by Alessandro Michele that took its inspiration not from a painting's narrative or its composition but from a single drop of blood on a painted neck. Here is everything behind the look.
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Venus Williams Met Gala 2026: The Swarovski Gown She Built From Her Own Smithsonian Portrait
When Venus Williams said on the morning of May 4 that co-chairing the Met Gala felt "really full circle," she was not being vague. By the time she arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that evening in a Swarovski crystal mesh gown built from a painting of herself that hangs in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the full circle she was describing had become literal.
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Diya Mehta Jatia Met Gala 2026: The Mayyur Girotra Gown That Brought Bengal's Nearly Extinct Shola Craft to the World's Most Watched Red Carpet
Diya Mehta Jatia is a fashion consultant and stylist whose professional practice is built around shaping visual identity and guiding design direction for high-end fashion narratives. She works behind the scenes, which is precisely why her choices carry a particular weight.
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BOOKS & ART
What Is Modern Art, Actually
The first is that modern abstract art is doing something real and the people who made it were often thinking very seriously about what they were trying to do. The second is that the market for this art has almost nothing to do with the art itself and operates on entirely different principles. Understanding both parts does not require any particular background in art history. It requires only the willingness to take the question seriously.
Five Artists, Four Centuries, One Carpet: How Met Gala 2026 Became the Most Unlikely Art Exhibition of the Year
There is a relationship between art and fashion that has been described so many times and in so many ways that the description itself has become a kind of reflex, something reached for automatically whenever a designer name-drops a painter or a museum stages a collaboration with a luxury house or a runway show is held in a gallery space with catalog essays written by curators who are very careful about how much of their credibility they are lending and to whom.
7 Essential Books That Define a Curated Bookshelf in 2026
Fashion. Architecture. Watches. Cars. Interiors. Photography. Design Philosophy. One book from each world that belongs in every serious collection.
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