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Bad Bunny to Headline 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show

This is Beirut, 29/09 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny will headline next year's Super Bowl halftime show, the NFL said on Sunday, ending speculation that Taylor Swift was being lined up for the American football showpiece. Super Bowl halftime shows have traditionally attracted the biggest names in the music world, with past performers reading like a who's ...

Fall 2025 Bags: Textures, Shapes, Desires

Bélinda Ibrahim, 28/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Bags Fashion Fall Culture

In Fall 2025, fabrics and finishes are key. Quilted leather is making a comeback, but in softer, slightly puffed versions. Many bags mix it up: smooth leather, grained leather, croc effects, fuzzy finishes, or even touches of bouclé wool and knit details. This variety makes each bag a pleasure to carry, soft or textured depending on the ...

Paris Fashion Week to Open With Bold Industry Transformations Ahead

This is Beirut, 28/09 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Paris Fashion Week kicks off on Monday with a dozen new faces set to make their debuts at major labels, including Matthieu Blazy at Chanel. Reflecting an unprecedented shake-up of creative directors, the Spring-Summer 2026 season will showcase the renewal of the top ranks of the global luxury clothing industry on a scale rarely seen. The sector, ...

Bottega Veneta Debuts Soft Functional Style at Milan Show

This is Beirut, 28/09 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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British designer Louise Trotter showed her debut collection for Bottega Veneta in Milan Saturday with a collection focused on "soft functionality", with structured clothes in supple, draped fabrics. In front of an audience that included actresses Uma Thurman and Julianne Moore, the models wore leather coats and suits with wide shoulders as well ...

Cinema Hits the Runway

Bélinda Ibrahim, 27/09 19:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Fashion and cinema have long shared a mutual fascination, but during Milan Fashion Week in September 2025, the dialogue reached a new level. Gucci unveiled its ‘La Famiglia” collection not through a traditional runway show, but with a short film titled The Tiger, directed by Spike Jonze and Halina Reijn, starring Demi Moore, Julia Garner and ...

Italian Luxury Faces Turmoil as Armani Era Closes

This is Beirut, 27/09 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The first Milan Fashion Week without Giorgio Armani marks the end of an era in Italian luxury, at a time when houses across the sector are already in transition. After defending his independence throughout his life, the legendary designer, who died this month aged 91, entrusted his heirs with the task of selling his group. He cited French ...

Ivory Coast Launches Major Art Space in Historic Coastal Town

This is Beirut, 27/09 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Art Exhibition Heritage Ivory Coast Culture

A new contemporary art museum has opened in Ivory Coast's UNESCO-listed beachside town of Grand-Bassam in a building that is a remnant of its colonial past. Twenty-eight artists from nine African countries feature in the inaugural exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography and design at La Maison de l'art (The House of Art). The former post ...

Patrick Watson’s ‘Uh Oh’: A Soundtrack to Unsettled Times

This is Beirut, 26/09 19:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Top-streaming Canadian singer Patrick Watson says he called his new album Uh Oh, which released Friday, to capture the sense of fatalistic doom felt by many people when they wake up and read the news. The bilingual 45-year-old multi-instrumentalist, whose ballad Je te laisserai des mots is the most-streamed francophone title ever on Spotify, said ...

When Fashion Brings Masterpieces Back to Life

Bélinda Ibrahim, 26/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Fashion Masterpieces Art Runways Culture

Fashion Week is no longer merely a stage for new silhouettes. It has become a platform where art and clothing engage in a dynamic dialogue, each collection telling its own story. Every season, on the runways of Paris, Milan, London and New York, artistic references abound. Fashion draws from the great masters, summons icons of painting, sculpture ...

From Survival to Revival: The World’s Last Beetling Mill Eyes a Bright Future

This is Beirut, 26/09 17:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Craft Linen Heritage Fashion Northern Ireland Culture

The noise is deafening and the work can be lonely, but to William Smyth, who toils in the world's last commercial linen "beetling" mill, his job is unique. "There's nothing modern about it, I'm doing the same now as they were doing 100 years and more ago," said Smyth, 59, at the mill in Northern Ireland in a village some 45 miles (70 kilometers) ...

Pop Art Brings Royal Tradition to Life in Luxembourg

This is Beirut, 26/09 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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As Luxembourg awaits the coronation of a new Grand Duke, local artist Jacques Schneider is planning to jazz up the occasion with a splash of pop art. A set of new "monarchical" paintings are among the works on show at a retrospective on Schneider's 20 years in the art industry that opened on Thursday in Berchem, a small town in the south of the ...

Spotify Leads Industry Effort to Label AI Involvement in Music Creation

This is Beirut, 25/09 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Music Spotify Technology AI Culture

Spotify on Thursday unveiled several measures to encourage artists and publishers to be more transparent about their use of artificial intelligence, as well as to limit certain abuses. The Swedish platform is recommending that musicians and producers comply with a new standard developed by the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), a consortium of leading ...

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