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Google Faces Breakup Threat Over Chrome Monopoly
This is Beirut 2025-04-21 23:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US government attorneys urged a federal judge Monday to make Google spin off its Chrome browser, arguing artificial intelligence is poised to ramp up the tech giant's online search dominance. The Department of Justice (DOJ) made its pitch at a hearing before District Judge Amit Mehta, who is considering "remedies" after making a landmark decision ...
Gold Hits Record, Dollar Drops as Tariff Fears Dampen Sentiment
This is Beirut 2025-04-21 10:54 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Gold prices hit a fresh record on Monday while the dollar weakened further and stocks were mixed amid worries about Donald Trump's tariff blitz and his bubbling row with the Federal Reserve. With several markets still closed for the Easter holiday, business was limited ahead of a week that will see the release of key data that should give an ...
'Khiyal Sahra:' Neither With You Nor Without You
2024-08-27 13:49 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
For the first time, a play featuring only two actors—Georges Khabbaz and Adel Karam—has captivated a wide audience and sold out before performances even began. Khiyal Sahra is playing at the Casino du Liban until the end of August and returning during the festive period from December 18, 2024, to January 19, 2025. What does it offer ...
Israel Union Chief Orders 'Complete Strike' Monday in Support of Hostages
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The head of Israel's powerful Histadrut trade union ordered a "complete strike" in support of Gaza hostages on Monday and urged a deal to secure their release after six more were announced dead. "We must stop the abandonment of the hostages... I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention can shake those who need to be shaken," ...
Explaining the U.S. Troop Buildup as Trump Pushes Iran Talks
Claudia Groeling 27/03 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Amid escalating rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, including threats of further strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island, Washington has signaled openness to negotiations with Tehran. While Trump has not formally indicated plans to invade Kharg Island, through which 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports flow, he has made ...
The British Museum Goes Glam: London’s Answer to the Met Gala
This is Beirut 2025-10-18 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The British Museum, the prestigious London institution, is hosting its first-ever fundraising gala on Saturday — a lavish and glamorous event aiming to rival New York’s Met Gala, and above all, to raise money to offset declining public subsidies. The museum, which holds one of the largest permanent collections in the world, says it aims to ...
Sabah: The Timeless Voice Lighting Up Lebanon’s Soul
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-11-10 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Sabah, born Jeanette Georges Feghali in 1925 in the hilltop village of Bdadoun near Wadi Chahrour—the mysterious “Valley of the Blackbird”—was destined for artistry. Poetry ran in her family; her uncle, Anis Feghali, earned the nickname Shahrour El Wadi for his mastery of the traditional Arabic poetic form, zajal. Jeanette inherited this ...
Star Designer Rousteing Quits Fashion Group Balmain
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Star designer Olivier Rousteing announced Wednesday he was quitting as artistic director of French fashion house Balmain after 14 years in which he revolutionized the luxury group. Rousteing was the first Black designer to lead a major Paris fashion house and is credited with helping make luxury fashion more accessible, recruiting Kim Kardashian ...
“Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style”, Buckingham Palace to Showcase the Fashion Legacy of a Reign
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Buckingham Palace will next year host an unprecedented exhibition highlighting the fashion legacy left by the late Queen Elizabeth II during her 70-year reign. "The wardrobe of her late majesty is a snapshot of a very long life, a life of duty, and in so many ways it's a time capsule," said UK designer Erdem Moralioglu. "It captures a very ...
Local Fabrics, Fibers Shine at Eco-Centered Lagos Fashion Week
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Four days ahead of her show at Lagos Fashion Week, the sewing machines at Abasiekeme Ukanireh's workshop were still buzzing. Ukanireh, the founder of the popular Nigerian brand Eki Kere, met with models and tailors for the final preparations ahead of one of Africa's biggest fashion events, which ran through Sunday. On the agenda: local ...
Belgian Designer and Fashion Pioneer Marina Yee Dies at Age 67
This is Beirut 2025-11-03 10:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Belgian fashion designer Marina Yee, a founding member of the Antwerp Six who revolutionized fashion in the 1980s, has died at the age of 67, the Antwerp Fashion Museum announced Sunday. “Her name is inseparable from the legendary Antwerp Six, who put Belgian fashion on the world stage,” the museum stated. In 1986, six young Flemish ...
The “Open-Top” Bag: Your Accessory Revealing All
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-02 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Just a few seasons ago, no one would have predicted the resurgence of open-top bags. For years, luxury equated elegance with security. Clasps, flaps, discreet zippers, and golden locks were the reassuring hallmarks of high-end handbags. Yet from Paris to Milan and even Copenhagen, a bold new proposition has taken over the runways: the open-top ...
Lagos Fashion Week Spotlight: Onalaja Puts Nigerian Heritage at the Heart of Fashion
This is Beirut 2025-10-31 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Models strutted down the runway, their beaded and sequined dresses evoking the traditional facial scarring still done in some parts of Nigeria. Others donned outfits paying homage to adire, a traditional Yoruba indigo fabric long prized for its craftsmanship. Kanyinsola Onalaja's show kicked off Lagos Fashion Week in style, in what has been a ...
Asia Markets Mostly up on Heels of Apple, Amazon Earnings
This is Beirut 2025-10-31 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Asian stock markets mostly rose Friday morning, with a surge in Japanese shares coming after better-than-expected earnings reports from US tech behemoths Apple and Amazon. Investor confidence in artificial intelligence has fuelled a rally in global stock markets this week that saw California-based chip designer Nvidia become the first-ever $5 ...
Paul McCartney Reflects on Life and Music after Beatles
This is Beirut 2025-10-28 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A new documentary about Paul McCartney’s solo career after The Beatles’ breakup will be released on February 25, 2026, on Amazon Prime Video, following a limited theatrical run, according to a statement released Monday. The film, available in 240 countries and territories worldwide, features rare archival footage that captures the period when ...
Rick Owens Turns Palais Galliera into a Temple of Dark Love
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-10-27 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Known as both an avant-gardist and a mystic, Rick Owens reinvents fashion as a sacred ritual. With his exhibition Temple of Love, the Palais Galliera takes on the aura of a pagan cathedral, where darkness and light merge in an act of aesthetic and chaotic faith. Since last June, the Palais Galliera has been hosting Rick Owens: Temple of Love. ...
Les Mains de Mamie Redefine Haute Couture
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-25 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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At first glance, Catherine’s flat in Saint-Étienne looks like any other French retiree’s home. Balls of yarn are scattered on the armchair, patterns are scribbled on scraps of paper, an old measuring tape lies nearby, and the television murmurs in the background. But for the past three years, her hands have been knitting for more than just ...
L’Oréal Eyes Armani Stake, Honoring a Designer’s Final Wish
This is Beirut 2025-10-21 15:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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French cosmetics group L'Oreal said Tuesday it is interested in taking a stake in Italian company Armani, as its late founder suggested, even as it moves ahead with a multi-billion-dollar purchase of Kering's beauty division. "The acquisition of Kering's beauty activities changes nothing in terms of our intention to be part of Armani," L'Oreal ...
Leonardo, Callas, Beethoven… Could Europe’s Icons Appear on Euro Banknotes?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-17 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Nearly a quarter of a century after their introduction, euro banknotes are set to be completely redesigned, both aesthetically and in terms of security. If the ECB stays on schedule, the new banknotes are expected to be unveiled from 2026, following an unprecedented public consultation and design process. Since 2002, euro banknotes have depicted ...
Tom Cruise Receives an Honorary Oscar for His Body of Work
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Often nominated but never awarded, American actor Tom Cruise received an Honorary Oscar on Sunday night—the first golden statuette of his long and decorated career—before a hall full of Hollywood’s biggest names at the Governors Awards. To the sound of the iconic Mission Impossible score, a defining element of the 63-year-old actor’s ...
Fashion’s Glass Runway: Women Designers Missing from Top Roles in SS26
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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In fashion at the moment, as seen on catwalks: frills, corsets, big shoulder pads, and "naked dresses". Out of fashion: employing women as chief designers. In the most recent Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear Fashion Weeks in Paris and Milan, the effects of a huge reshuffle at the top of the European luxury clothing industry were plain to see. From ...
Hermès’ Designer Veronique Nichanian to Step Down after 37 Years
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hermes chief menswear designer Veronique Nichanian is to step down after 37 years in charge and will present her final show for the luxury house in January, the company announced on Friday. Hermes announced the change "with heartfelt emotion", paying tribute to Nichanian's "eye, her vision, her generosity, her energy and her curiosity" in a press ...
Executive Close to Giorgio Armani Named CEO as Fashion House Enters New Era
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Armani Group on Thursday named a senior manager who worked alongside Giorgio Armani to take over as chief executive of the luxury empire following the designer's death. Giuseppe Marsocci, 61, joined the group in 2003 and spent over a decade in the New York office. For the past six years he had been reporting directly to Armani as deputy ...
From Waste to Runway: Kenyan Designers Transform Used Clothes Into Art
This is Beirut 2025-10-13 17:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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In a dusty alley in the heart of Kenya's largest open-air market, fashion models strut down a makeshift runway in bold, upcycled outfits made from waste collected at dumpsites and market cast-offs, proof that even trash can dazzle. Every year, thousands of tons of used clothes from Europe, the United States, and beyond make their way to ...
Paris Fashion Week: Where Style Pays Off
This is Beirut 2025-10-10 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Every year, the French capital doesn’t just host the world’s top fashion shows; it drives the industry’s economy. According to the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, Paris Fashion Week generates around €1.2 billion in economic impact for the city. Over several weeks, more than 110 haute couture and ready-to-wear shows unfold, ...
A Symphony of Style: Lebanese Creativity Captivates the Paris Runways
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-10-09 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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This season, Paris once again moved to the rhythm of fashion. From September 27 to October 7, the city dressed in its finest attire to welcome Fashion Week, dedicated to the Women’s Ready-to-Wear Spring–Summer 2026 collections. On the official calendar, Lebanese designers once more carried high the banner of the Land of the Cedars on the ...
Netflix Docuseries: Inside Victoria Beckham’s Journey from Spice Girl to Fashion Mogul
This is Beirut 2025-10-09 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Ex-Spice Girl turned designer Victoria Beckham describes herself as someone who "desperately wanted to be liked" in a new three-part documentary about her life. In the Netflix series due to launch on Thursday, the 51-year-old once known as "Posh Spice" recounts her battle to reinvent herself as a fashion designer after the British girl band ...
Return To Elegance: Highlights from Paris Fashion Week
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A historic Paris Fashion Week has wrapped up after 10 days of Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear shows, featuring many new faces and hailed by critics as marking a "return to elegance". AFP looks back on the key moments: Global Makeover After a momentous Milan Fashion Week, marked by the absence of the late Giorgio Armani and new creative directors ...
Matthieu Blazy Launches Chanel’s New Era With Starry Paris Debut
This is Beirut 2025-10-07 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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New Chanel designer Matthieu Blazy unveiled his first sumptuous collection on Monday in front of a crowd of admirers and stars sitting beneath giant glowing planets during Paris Fashion Week. Ahead of the most anticipated show of the season, some had wondered how much the 41-year-old would dare change the classic designs of the French ...
A New Generation at Chanel: Blazy’s Debut Headlines Paris Fashion Week
This is Beirut 2025-10-06 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy is set to make his debut in one of the most coveted jobs in the fashion industry on Monday when he sends out models for Chanel for the first time. The 41-year-old, who was appointed last December, will unveil his Spring/Summer 2026 collection at Paris Fashion Week in the clear highlight of the season, if not ...