Love of appearance was preeminent among the aristocracy of the 18th century. Montesquieu ... dollars on fragrance and another six billion on makeup. Hair- and skin-care products drew eight ...

The legacy of women is rich with bravery and resilience, leaving an indelible mark on society. Embracing Emotion and Style Whether they are nurturing children, being devoted friends, or lighting up ...

From his early days at Perry Ellis, through his 14-year stint at Louis Vuitton, to his post-pandemic era, Vogue’s December ...

Barbara M. Benedict Source: Journal of British Studies 'Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel tells a poignant story about a small gap in the cultural imagination of dress that was ...

Last fall, for her show at Gagosian Beverly Hills, she copied 18th-century likenesses of notable women, down to the pearl. Except she obscured each face with crazy bunches of painted fabric ...

Hava Raucher has no such qualms. The 80-year-old painter and sculptor’s new show, at Artists’ House in Tel Aviv, is a ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein might be the most faithful movie adaptation of the novel… yet it’s far from the best.

Diaries written by women in 18th century Ireland are still to be found in libraries and archives throughout Ireland, the UK, and Europe. They were usually deposited as part of a family's papers ...

Many worshipped in established, predominantly white congregations, but by the late 18th century, blacks had begun ... In black churches, women generally were not permitted to preach.

Their latest collaboration could be described as a portrait of three ladies on fire, though with no 18th-century Breton ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...