DIRIYAH, Saudi Arabia — Supermodels and social media mavens, their makeup artists and hairstylists in tow, posed at a concert in leather pants, chunky sweaters, and trendy black combat boots.
The Miss Venezuela beauty pageant goes ahead seeking to brush off a tumultuous sex scandal and present a humbler tone attuned to a nation with a crippled economy.
Designer boutiques of Manhattan and Paris are feeling the chill of a Chinese economic slowdown that has hammered automakers and other industries.
Several housewives, homemakers all, were huddled in the gym the other day, comparing notes—no, not on their figures, but on the state of their budgets.
Furniture giant Ikea is set to open its first store and restaurant in India after years of trying but arguably its most famous item is off the menu — Swedish meatballs.
“We’ve got plans to export to the United States,” grinned Luca Tooley who co-owns the Zwakala craft brewery in South Africa’s northeastern Limpopo province.
Tourists keen to explore Iceland’s natural beauty will have to pay more from next year, after Reykjavik announced a tax hike Friday on the sector, which has exploded in recent years.
Soulless supermalls housing luxury labels, traditional suit tailors, and markets full of cheap designer knock-offs, Hong Kong’s flaccid fashion scene has long struggled to compete with the sartorial cool of Tokyo’s Harajuku, or the street style of Hongdae in Seoul.
A fifth of the Japanese workforce faces the risk of death from overwork, according to a new government survey into the country’s notoriously strenuous working culture.
Jessica caught the travel bug and never came back, Frederic wanted a bigger market for his start-up and Nicolas was just tired of the vexing daily grind in France that was eating away at his joie de vivre.
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