Few fabrics feel as luxurious as silk. Consequentially, few fabrics are as expensive as silk. However, you don't always have ...
Kate Moss walked the runway during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which sent a PEOPLE writer down a ’90s fashion rabbit ...
Since then, they’ve become internet famous for $50 cashmere sweaters, travel-ready silk dresses and Italian leather handbags.
It’s not very becoming for a (supposed) grown up to be envious of a tweenager but, we must admit, we're rather jealous of Harper Beckham today. On Friday night, the youngest member of brood ...
Have you ever marveled at the glossy perfection of someone's straightened hair and wondered about the magic behind it? There are a few techniques that can be used to get bone-straight hair, but ...
The world is full of legendary highways but none can compete with the Silk Road – the storied route set to fascinate the masses at the British Museum in a new exhibition (September 26 to ...
Museums are continually searching for ancient counterparts to contemporary phenomena, and the British Museum’s new show Silk Roads appears to be just that: an exploration of the ancient ...
Silk Roads is about lots more than silk. John Masefield summed up the allure of trade with the east in his poem Cargoes: “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,/Rowing home to haven in sunny ...
From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk Roads. For millennia, people travelling the Silk Roads carried objects, ideas ...
Silk Roads, which opens at the British Museum next week and brings together an extraordinary group of images, artefacts and objects that reveal the interconnections that held much of the world ...
But today hair bonnets are way more attractive. Silk or satin is the fabric du jour, and dashes of panache make wearing one feasible and, dare I say, fashionable. The bonnet phenomenon is more ...