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Highlights from Paris Fashion Week

6 years 7 months ago
Paris Fashion Week wasn't just about celebrating new looks this season. Coronavirus fears loomed large for visitors in the French capital -- the last stop in a series of Fashion Weeks that kicked off in New York nearly a month ago. Many of the crowd had arrived straight off the back of Milan Fashion Week, where cases of COVID-19 continue to surge.

'Beauty is complicated,' says provocative photographer

6 years 7 months ago
Beauty is often thought of in relation to fashion and femininity. Its construct in pop culture is something that I've always tried to work with in different ways in relation to my work as a photographer. Beauty is complicated; it's an individual response to how we live our lives -- but it can also encompass kindness and compassion.

What the kimono's influence tells us about cultural appropriation

6 years 7 months ago
Recently, the conversation around cultural appropriation in fashion has been unavoidable. Headline-grabbing examples of questionable borrowing abound: In January, fashion house Comme des Garçons was lambasted for sending predominantly white models down the runway in cornrow wigs, while last October, country singer Kacey Musgraves received online backlash when she posted sexy photos of herself wearing a traditional Vietnamese ao dai dress on Instagram. And just last week, Kim Kardashian was once again accused of appropriating black women's hairstyles by wearing braids at Paris Fashion Week.

Hypercar factory coming to the Middle East

6 years 7 months ago
In 2015, W Motors achieved global prominence when cinema audiences watched Vin Diesel drive a cherry-red sports car through the windows of a skyscraper in the seventh installment of "The Fast Saga."

This child is smiling, but her story is devastating

6 years 7 months ago
A happy song blasts from the speakers in the courtyard of a school turned into a camp for displaced people, drowning out the sound of shelling in the distance. But the Syrian civil war is never far. CNN's Arwa Damon reports on the unparalleled humanitarian crisis with no end in sight.
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