The Louvre will be led by a female president for the first time in its 228-year-long history. On September 1, Laurence des Cars, an established figure in the art world, will take the helm of the Parisian institution.Des Cars is currently the president of the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay, both in Paris. She will succeed Jean-Luc Martinez, whose campaign to stay on as Louvre president for a third term faltered. "Four years at the Orsay gave me this confidence, this crazy idea that ...

A Netflix original, Move to Heaven is a new K-drama series starring some of the Korean entertainment industry's favorite actors such as Ji Jinhee, Tang Joonsang and Lee Jehoon. Inspired by the essay "Things Left Behind" written by Kim Sae-byul, the show tells the story of Geu-ru (Tang), who is left with his late father's keepsake organization business and is forced to work alongside his uncle Sang-gu. Together, they organize belongings left behind by the deceased and encounter touching messages...

Celebrating Japan's rainy season, Takashi Murakami's pastry shop Tonari no Zingaro is set to release limited-edition cookies. Arriving in the shape of the artist's signature flower characters, the set spotlights hydrangeas – one of the country's popular flowers that bloom in the early summer.Packaged in a rectangular tin, the Flower Parent and Child’s Hydrangea Cookie Can introduces Tonari no Zingaro's new mint flavor. The cookies, shaped in a parent and child version of the flower character...

Over the past few years, streetwear has grown from a niche in the fashion industry into an entire ecosystem of its own, including websites dedicated to keeping track of its wildfire prices and market-like ebbs and flows. This growing popularity has led to collaborations with luxury fashion houses and covetable limited product releases, which continue to increase the hype and the price tags. As a streetwear stan myself, the departure from streetwear's origins as accessible fashion priced fo...