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Marlene Dietrich made the tux luxe for all.

American retailers had a tough time in 2017. The year saw widespread store closures, while companies were trying to maintain their footing as the way Americans shop continued to shift underneath them.

The new movie Bright is Netflix’s big entry into Hollywood-style, blockbuster filmmaking. It was reportedly the streaming service’s most expensive movie to date, costing $90 million, and was talked about before its release as having the potential to be the kind of tentpole hit that studios dream of.

If you judged solely by the major fashion players ditching fur, you might think the fur industry was collapsing.

As if the persistent wage gap between women and men weren’t enough, women have also been disproportionately hammered by the wave of job losses hitting US retail.

The stress had been building on American retailers for some time, but in 2017, it simply became too much to bear.

For anyone watching last night’s (Dec. 17) basketball game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Wizards, it was hard to take your eyes off the feet of LeBron James.

When Darren Campbell lists off the rebellious types who have worn Dr. Martens boots through the decades, he sounds like a genealogist charting the lineage of a species.

H&M’s years of investing too much money and energy in its physical stores—and not enough in its digital ones—are catching up with it.

If you’re a sentient human in the US right now, there are two things that feel inescapable: politics and the holidays. Why not let the former make your shopping decisions for the latter a little bit easier this year?

Egypt is hoping to give tourists a new reason to come visit.

Until a few days ago, a rule proposed under the Obama administration would force airlines to tell you at every step what baggage fees they’re charging you. The idea could have ended the frustratingly common occurrence of booking a ticket thinking you got a deal, only to find out afterward that you’re going to have to pay extra for your luggage. It could have made it easier to compare prices across airlines, since they could no longer sneak those fees in separately from your ticket price.

Nobody ever accused Steve Jobs of lacking strong opinions.

The devastating effects of climate change can feel abstract when we talk about carbon-dioxide levels and shifting weather patterns. But they are distressingly real when we see what they’re doing to the world’s polar bears.

The big geopolitical storylines of the past year and a half have been those of nationalism rising, of countries closing their borders, of protectionist rhetoric on trade, and a broad backlash against globalism evident through pivotal events such as Brexit and the Donald Trump presidency. It feels like globalization is in a moment of crisis, and its future far from certain.

If you’ve been buying your Coty makeup on Amazon’s European marketplaces, expect your options to shrink.

Companies often make bold commitments to hit sustainability targets by some remote point in the future. These promises, whether they’re about new environmental or social goals, can generate a lot of positive press for the brand when they’re first announced. But you don’t always hear about the progress made after that, which is what really matters.

Calvin Klein and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts have teamed up for a big multi-year partnership that will license a wide swathe of the pop artist’s work for use across Calvin Klein’s various fashion lines.

In appropriate 21st-century fashion, the British royal family announced on Twitter this morning (Nov. 27) that Prince Harry is engaged to the American actress Meghan Markle. The wedding is set to take place some time in the spring of 2018.

This story is part of our guide to five gift-giving philosophies to help you find the perfect gift.

The holidays are engineered to make us buy stuff. Everywhere we turn there are ads pushing us to shop, and sales convincing us that we can own everything our hearts desire for the lowest price we’ll ever find—right now! For a limited time!

Misha Nonoo was once your typical prestigious, lovely, small-to-medium-sized designer fashion brand—the sort celebrities and critics often adore. It made seasonal collections. It staged expensive, well-received runway shows at New York Fashion Week. It sold wholesale to upscale retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and Shopbop.

Some people hate the way turtlenecks look, others the way they feel. “Wearing a turtleneck,” the late comedian Mitch Hedberg once joked, “is like being strangled by a really weak guy.”

Nike has promoted its Zoom Vaporfly 4% as a shoe that could change the future of running. Designed for serious marathoners, the shoe supposedly allows athletes to use 4% less energy during their runs than Nike’s previous top racing shoe, the Zoom Streak 6. That may not sound like an extraordinary amount, but over the course of 26 miles, it could make a huge difference. In theory, a 4% energy savings should allow you to run at high speeds for longer, and Nike believes it could enable an elite runner to finish a marathon in under two hours for the first time ever.