https://www.scmp.com/rss/274843/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times From the Versace dress that led to the creation of Google Images to the Swarovski-encrusted jumpsuit that repopularised androgynous menswear on the red carpet, the Grammy Awards show is synonymous with iconic fashion. Bold and daring looks often push the envelope. Music’s biggest night returned to Crypto.com Arena on Sunday for the 68th Grammy Awards, bringing with it the edgiest fashion of the season. Bad Bunny Bad Bunny wears custom Schiaparelli menswear with laced-up detailing on the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3342040/what-stars-wore-grammys-2026-addison-rae-olivia-dean-and-chappell-roan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3342040/what-stars-wore-grammys-2026-addison-rae-olivia-dean-and-chappell-roan?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:15:52 +0000 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times There are some things that make a person happy they’re not a millennial mum. Ashley Tisdale’s mommy group drama is one of those things. Because Tisdale – now Ashley Tisdale French – sounds like she might be stuck in her own High School Musical, and it looks as if Hilary Duff’s husband just threw a stink bomb under the bleachers. Adding to the drama: Duff and Mandy Moore are rumoured to be part of the group, though Tisdale French, 40, has refused to name names. “Since becoming a public figure as... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3339332/why-ashley-tisdale-called-her-mommy-group-too-high-school-and-how-hilary-duffs-hubby-responded?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3339332/why-ashley-tisdale-called-her-mommy-group-too-high-school-and-how-hilary-duffs-hubby-responded?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:00:46 +0000 After a champagne-coloured rug sent shock waves through Hollywood in 2023, this year’s Oscars carpet is back to red. Read on for Style’s picks of the best fashion moments from the 96th Academy Awards. 1. Lily Gladstone Gladstone, who made history as the first Native American woman to be nominated in the best leading actress category for her work in Killers of the Flower Moon, has supported indigenous designers and made powerful nods to her heritage with her sartorial choices throughout awards... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3254947/oscars-2024-best-red-carpet-looks-winning-actors-emma-stone-cillian-murphy-and-davine-joy-randolph?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3254947/oscars-2024-best-red-carpet-looks-winning-actors-emma-stone-cillian-murphy-and-davine-joy-randolph?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:00:19 +0000 Keith Richards had just picked up a pack of cigarettes from the coffee table in front of him, skilfully removed the cellophane and fired up the first of a string of smokes while talking about Crosseyed Heart, his first solo album in nearly 25 years and a rare venture away from his musical identity as guitarist, songwriter and periodic lead singer with The Rolling Stones. Despite having been finished for about 18 months, the album will finally be released this month. “I’ve been on this [The... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/music/article/1859095/keith-richards-crosseyed-heart-his-first-new-solo-album-almost-25?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/music/article/1859095/keith-richards-crosseyed-heart-his-first-new-solo-album-almost-25?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:01:49 +0000 Take the myth of Robin Hood, add a cyberpunk look and mix in some hacker sensibility. Welcome to Volume, which just so happens to be one of the most subversive indie video games released this year.  On the surface, Volume is a game of stealth and thieving. Yet these are clandestine operations that reflect a YouTube generation and an economically depressed climate. “Things are brilliant,” says our hero,  Rob, “if you’re born into the right role.”  Volume brings a rebellious heart to video game... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1857004/indie-stealth-game-volume-has-message-about-modern?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1857004/indie-stealth-game-volume-has-message-about-modern?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:01:24 +0000 More than four years ago, just as China's movie market was starting to boom, the executive producer behind blockbusters The Dark Knight, The Hangover and Man of Steel was casting about for a concept that might particularly suit Chinese audiences and gain a worldwide audience. Thomas Tull's fanboy imagination wandered to the Great Wall. What if, he wondered, the iconic edifice was built not to keep out hordes of Mongolians and other human invaders but to defend against fantastic monsters? That... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/film-tv/article/1835047/great-expectations-china-us-megamovie-great-wall?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/film-tv/article/1835047/great-expectations-china-us-megamovie-great-wall?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Jul 2015 08:45:15 +0000 Bette Midler knows what's expected of her onstage in 2015. "I have to sing well, and I have to have a great band," she says. "But my audience, they've known me at this point for 50 years. Whether I show up in a fishtail or not, I don't think it matters to them." The fishtail, of course, is a reference to her character Delores DeLago, the mermaid in a wheelchair who (mostly) sits out Midler's new show. So what does it mean for this veteran entertainer to skip one of her most famous bits? "It... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1820531/bette-midler-69-looks-forward-first-concert-tour-decade?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1820531/bette-midler-69-looks-forward-first-concert-tour-decade?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:45:50 +0000 The dentist's office might be the last place you'd look to find a quick cure for an implacable bout of depression. New research, however, suggests that laughing gas - the mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen that eases the pain and anxiety of having dental work - may help ease treatment-resistant depression in about the time it takes to fill a cavity. Interest in laughing gas as an antidepressant began with another sedative-turned-party-drug - ketamine. The anesthetic ketamine induces a euphoric... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1662608/laughing-gas-might-ease-symptoms-depression-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1662608/laughing-gas-might-ease-symptoms-depression-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:28:49 +0000 At World Books, Lily Li picks up the phone to transact one of her first sales of the day. "Hello, this is World Books," says Li, 60. "Can you add $60 to this phone card?" She hands the card back to the man waiting at the counter, then picks up the phone again to make her next sale: a small commission fee for helping a customer buy an ad in a Chinese newspaper. On her shelves, baby turtles swim in bright plastic tanks next to cans of soft drink and a pamphlet advertising Scientology. Walking... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1652457/chinese-bookshops-us-diversify-stock-overcome-online-competition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1652457/chinese-bookshops-us-diversify-stock-overcome-online-competition?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:04:05 +0000 Cheese, a 22kg, 90cm-tall turkey with a gobble said to sound like a country twang, received a US presidential pardon at the White House this week saving him from a "terrible and delicious fate". President Barack Obama spared the bird as part of the annual presidential turkey pardon, a longtime Washington ritual that serves as a symbolic opener of the Thanksgiving holiday. It was, Obama joked, one of his most high-profile actions in a month that has seen high political drama, including the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1650155/mac-cheese-thanksgiving-menu-obama-pardons-birds-annual-ritual?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1650155/mac-cheese-thanksgiving-menu-obama-pardons-birds-annual-ritual?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:15:45 +0000 At least six suspected vampires were buried with blades and rocks in a tiny farming village in Poland during the 17th and 18th centuries. The dead were buried with sharp sickles across their throats meant to sever their heads if they tried to rise as vampires to prey on the living. Rocks were propped beneath their chins to keep them from biting. The details were revealed in the online journal PLOS One. Researchers have been excavating unmarked graves at the mysterious cemetery, on a farm outside... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1650114/six-vampire-graves-found-tiny-polish-village-drawsko?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1650114/six-vampire-graves-found-tiny-polish-village-drawsko?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:00:15 +0000 The University of Virginia has suspended all fraternity activities and asked police to investigate a 2012 sexual assault in the wake of a Rolling Stone article that said the Charlottesville campus failed to protect students from sexual predators lurking among the school's Greek organisations. On Saturday, University President Teresa Sullivan said all fraternity activities would be suspended until January 9 next year as campus officials discuss steps to prevent assaults on campus. "The wrongs... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1647160/gang-rape-article-prompts-university-suspend-fraternity-activities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1647160/gang-rape-article-prompts-university-suspend-fraternity-activities?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:00:00 +0000 Scientists have discovered two ancient planets orbiting a strange old star relatively nearby in our stellar neighbourhood. One of the newly found planets is perhaps five times the mass of earth, and astronomers believe it is the right distance from the host star to potentially sustain liquid water on its surface. That means it could be suited for life. The second planet is even bigger – a super-earth – but it is probably too cold to support liquid water. And researchers say there may be more... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1527799/ancient-planets-orbiting-ancient-star-found-relatively-close?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1527799/ancient-planets-orbiting-ancient-star-found-relatively-close?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:30:15 +0000 Visitors to the newest museum in Harbin, in northeastern China, enter through a quaint facade affixed to the modern shell of the main train station. No bigger than a 7-Eleven, the museum could easily be mistaken for a restaurant and hardly looks like a place connected to an international incident - or two. It's on the site where Ahn Jung-geun, a Korean, gunned down Hirobumi Ito, then Japan's prime minister, in 1909, just before Japan formally colonised Korea. Ahn, who was executed by the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1420918/harbin-museum-korean-who-shot-japanese-pm-symbolises-divisions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1420918/harbin-museum-korean-who-shot-japanese-pm-symbolises-divisions?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:15:45 +0000 How does a man who turned his back on the world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll in a quest to be closer to God feel about being welcomed into an institution whose very name celebrates the culture of fame? "Even though it's taken time, I've always been an optimist," says the 65-year-old musician born Steven Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens and who now uses the name Yusuf. "I was brought up on the view that if you wait patiently until the end of the story, the good people will live happily... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1402301/former-cat-stevens-looks-forward-entering-rock-and-roll-hall?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1402301/former-cat-stevens-looks-forward-entering-rock-and-roll-hall?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Jan 2014 08:08:09 +0000 Why it's better to be right than happy It is better to be right than to be happy, at least for one husband on the cutting edge of science. As part of an unusual experiment, the husband was instructed to "agree with his wife's every opinion and request without complaint", and to continue doing so "even if he believed the female participant was wrong," according to a report on the research that was published in the British Medical Journal. The husband and wife were helping doctors test if pride... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1387710/short-science-december-22-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1387710/short-science-december-22-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:44:39 +0000 Even by the outre standards of the 1980s - when music was full of smooth criminals and material girls - the Pet Shop Boys stood out. Two fashion-conscious English guys with the crisp enunciation of schoolteachers, the pioneering duo made electronic synth-pop that looked to the future just as it drew on the old-fashioned storytelling of Noel Coward and P.G. Wodehouse. But nearly 30 years after they broke out with the worldwide smash West End Girls, the group might be more singular now than they... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1350748/pet-shop-boys-staying-current-electric?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1350748/pet-shop-boys-staying-current-electric?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:15:30 +0000 Before Asiana Airlines Flight 214 struck a sea wall at the edge of San Francisco International Airport last weekend, the Seoul-based carrier was planning a huge expansion of its fleet in the hope of capitalising on the surge in air traffic from Asia. The devastating crash on Saturday, which killed two Chinese teenagers and sent 182 passengers to hospitals, has now thrown the future of South Korea's second-largest airline into question. The airline needs to show customers that it is still in... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1280547/asiana-expansion-thrown-track?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1280547/asiana-expansion-thrown-track?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Seventeen United States retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target and Macy's, have signed on to a five-year agreement to help improve safety at garment factories in Bangladesh. The accord is separate from a legally binding plan finalised earlier this week by more than 70 mostly European companies such as H&M and Inditex. The US apparel sellers said on Wednesday that their coalition would seek inspections at all member-supported factories in Bangladesh within a year. The group promised transparency... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1280553/us-retailers-agree-bangladesh-safety-pact?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1280553/us-retailers-agree-bangladesh-safety-pact?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Wall Street may seem like its old self again. Financial giants including Goldman Sachs raked in mega profits in 2012; bonuses are expected to fatten more Wall Streeters' pockets than last year; and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been flirting with an all-time high after topping 14,000 for the first time in half a decade. But droves of recent lay-offs tell a different story. Indeed, analysts see a Wall Street that has shrunk in the four years since the financial crisis, in part because of... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1151281/wall-street-sees-big-bonuses-jobs-finance-sector-decline?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1151281/wall-street-sees-big-bonuses-jobs-finance-sector-decline?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The fast-changing Arctic broke new records for loss of sea ice and spring snow cover this year, as well as the extent of the summertime melt of the Greenland ice sheet, according to US scientists.  The latest report about the melting Arctic comes as frustrations flared in Doha over slow progress at UN climate talks to reach a global agreement on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The build-up of these gases is elevating average global temperatures, with the most pronounced changes in the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1101021/arctic-sea-ice-retreats-record-minimum-un-climate-talks-stall?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1101021/arctic-sea-ice-retreats-record-minimum-un-climate-talks-stall?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:55:39 +0000 Crowned with three gables and painted in hues of grey and white, the suburban home in Lake Forest, California, doesn't look much like the domicile of the future. But as summer heat radiates off the fresh asphalt outside, the home runs comfortably at full tilt indoors. Recessed lights shine, radios blare and air-conditioned splendour greets hot skin. Despite all systems going, the property is producing more electricity than it can consume on a warm summer day - and that's the goal. The ZeroHouse... https://www.scmp.com/property/international/article/1052430/californias-builders-aim-super-energy-efficient-homes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/property/international/article/1052430/californias-builders-aim-super-energy-efficient-homes?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000