One year on from its big rebrand, UK-based fast fashion brand PrettyLittleThing is distinctly detached from its pink, playful roots. Flying unicorn motifs, neon bodycon dresses, and pool party content are nowhere to be seen, replaced by a grown-up palette of brown and beige, tailored separates, and stately home settings. Working under the new strapline … Read more
Come May, visitors to the Met’s “Costume Art” exhibition will see how the human form has been depicted in art and fashion over time. For fall 2026 Zoe Whalen explored the same subject, but from an inside looking out perspective. “It’s a real love letter to a body—and probably my body in particular,” the designer … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like many other countries, the UK confronts insoluble long-term challenges: it has inescapable obligations that impose painful trade-offs. Given its ageing population and a slow-growing economy, all this can only get harder. For a taste … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery could reveal as early as Tuesday that it will engage with Paramount following the Ellison family’s latest offer, which included some significant concessions, Deadline has learned. WBD has a signed deal with Netflix but Par has been lobbing consecutive unsolicited takeover offers, all rejected outright thus far. The amended bid with a … Read more
Stani Kulechov, the founder of decentralized lending platform Aave, said DeFi could benefit from $50 trillion worth of “abundance assets” such as solar through tokenization by 2050, opening a new class of onchain collateral. Data from RWA.xyz shows that nearly $25 billion worth of real-world assets have been tokenized onchain, but they are mostly in … Read more
John Oliver had a lot of life, and politics, to catch up on in the premiere episode of Last Week Tonight Season 13. Coming back after a typical three-month holiday hiatus, the political comic speed-ran through various headlines, from the biathlete drama emerging from the 2026 Winter Olympics to the U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan leader … Read more
Strategy founder Michael Saylor has revealed the firm plans to convert its $6 billion in bond debt into equity — a move that reduces debt on the balance sheet. “Strategy can withstand a drawdown in BTC price to $8,000 and still have sufficient assets to fully cover our debt,” stated the firm on X on … Read more
NBC Courteney Cox is a household name thanks to her time as Monica Geller on the legendary sitcom, “Friends.” But like most actors, Cox got her start in less memorable roles. After appearing in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark,” she co-starred on … Read more
We’re then treated to an extended flashback to Dunk’s childhood as an orphan in King’s Landing. He had a companion, a scrappy female friend named Rafe, with whom he scavenged scraps of metal to sell. We see them saving their earnings in order to buy passage to the Free Cities, though Dunk worries that maybe … Read more
“I will always remember you like this,” Myha’la’s Harper Stern says — voice quivering, her finger accusatorily pointing — to Eric (Ken Leung) when he dissolves SternTao in the latter half of Industry’s latest episode, “Dear Henry.” Doing so by way of a proxy lawyer, the bright-and-fast-burning inverse fund’s evaporation severs not just the duo’s … Read more