After an ostensibly precocious debut November 3 from Lie Sang Bong and Sebastian Gunawan that set the bar almost impossibly high, expectations for the rest of the week at the Jakarta Fashion Week 2013 were...

In the pantheon of fashion week coverage, New York, London, Milan and Paris may get the majority of the headlines, but those cities sometimes feel tired after a certain point. Part of the soul of fashion is adventure...

Ever since Karl Lagerfeld hosted his legendary Soirée Moratoire Noire party specifying “tragique exigée absolument noire” (“totally black tragic dress required”) in 1977, to say the goth aesthetic has...

The statistics are sobering.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States. Almost everyone either has had or knows...

Nikki Douthwaite is obsessed. No, not like Tony Shalhoub’s famously germaphobic detective in the TV series Monk, but really obsessed.

The obsession — dots. Hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of...

Groggily, I opened my eyes. What immediately came into view were the thick curtains; understated yellow wallpaper; the wooden table beside the quilt-draped bed; the humid air with an artificially sweet tinge -- I was at...

In the pantheon of fashion meccas, New York, London, Milan and Paris are typically the first places that come to mind. Denver, Colorado, is usually an afterthought.

“Inshallah, we will make it,” said my driver, Abdul. “But first we must stop and take tea.”

Two things in life are certain: death (unfortunately), and the accumulation of things. The math, of course, is simple -- the longer we live, the more “things” we accumulate.

The Ass was on the move — or rather, The Ass. He was a large, overly obnoxious Swedish man, and I loved him.

I was with my friend Martin at Olympia, and I had officially lost it. The early April weather...