Throughout history, from Mary Todd Lincoln to Melania Trump, America’s First Ladies have masterfully used fashion as a powerful tool for influence, identity, and diplomacy, with their sartorial ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Eye On series takes you to a different country each month. In October we visit Namibia highlighting the country’s best and brightest people, plus framing its pressing issues in a ...

Throughout the Victorian era of the 1800s, women’s fashion dictated they be seen in public wearing a long dress, usually down to their ankles. This meant transportation could be difficult with the ...

The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale University ...

Đàm Tướng Quân 'Beautiful' makeup and fashion are changing with the times, and they are greatly influenced by the background of the times, such as the trend of easy-to-move pants styles during the war ...

When Deneice and John Leigh took a dream trip to Japan 10 years ago, they didn't know their love of everything Japanese would create a cultural phenomenon. The annual Anime Matsuri convention, which ...

A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: The epic German poem, The Nibelung, that inspired Wagner, Victorian fashion and hair styles, and poet Jackie Kay’s ...

With all the uncertainty in the world, a year-long run-up to a nail-biting presidential election and a barrage of over-stimulating social media, we all need a little escape once in a while. Designer ...

Here’s a device to add to your steampunk fiction: the chatelaine, a popular accessory from the 19th century. Part practicality, part fashion accessory, the chatelaine was the perfect way for women on ...