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Chicago CNN  —  The pope has been spotted in sportswear — and this time it isn’t AI. Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first American pope, wore a White Sox baseball cap during a public appearance at the Vatican, making him the first pope to make such a casual pairing with his white cassocks. Leo, born Robert Provost, was photographed on Wednesday smiling in the cap during his weekly general audience. During the appearance, he met with newly wedded couples — breaking both traditional papal and wedding attire codes. Leo’s love for the sport was noted immediately upon…

CNN  —  Editor’s Note: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. On Tuesday, Este, Alana and Danielle Haim — the sister trio behind the eponymous pop rock band Haim — arrived in London for an appearance on BBC Radio One. All wore skinny pants, albeit in their own way, effortlessly demonstrating how to style a controversial mid-aughts staple three ways. Este, the eldest sister, styled her edgy low-rise black leather pants with a solid patent heel and a…

CNN  —  Princess Diana’s ski suit, a Dior handbag given to her by France’s first lady and the floral dress she wore to visit children in hospital are among dozens of items from the late royal’s wardrobe headed to auction this month. Featuring over 100 pieces belonging to the former Princess of Wales — including hats, handbags and shoes, as well as sketches and handwritten letters — the sale has been described by Julien’s Auctions the “largest collection” of the royal’s fashion ever to go under the hammer. Titled “Princess Diana’s Style & A Royal Collection,” the auction is accepting…

CNN  —  It may be off-season in Hollywood, but Broadway’s biggest names were on hand to deliver plenty of glamour at the 78th Annual Tony Awards. Braving the rain, stars of the big stage arrived at New York’s historic Radio City Music Hall on Sunday in a series of silver, cream, ivory and champagne-colored embellished gowns, along with fittingly theatrical statement suiting. US theater is having a moment: The 2024-25 Broadway season was the highest-grossing ($1.89 billion in revenue) and best-attended (14.7 million theatergoers) in history, according to the Broadway League. Theater’s boundaries with TV and film have also become…

Editor’s Note: Delving into the archives of pop culture history, “Remember When?” is a CNN Style series offering a nostalgic look at the celebrity outfits that defined their eras. CNN  —  Remember when Angelina Jolie wore a plunging black gown to the red carpet of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” redefining the leather look? Twenty years ago, the action-romance blockbuster premiered in June in Los Angeles as rumors of Jolie’s real on-set affair with co-star Brad Pitt reached a fever pitch, ushering in a decade of “Brangelina” as a tabloid fixture. Jolie arrived at the film premiere in a Versace gown…

CNN  —  The original Hermès Birkin bag, which acted as the blueprint for what would become one of the most desirable celebrity status symbols in the world, will go under the hammer in Paris next month. The capacious saddle-stitched handbag, inspired by actor and singer Jane Birkin who died in 2023, will lead the “Fashion Icons” sale at Sotheby’s on July 10, the auction house said in a statement Thursday. Known as “The Original Birkin,” the all-black, leather handbag is the first version of the timeless luxury staple, which was envisaged about 40 years ago after a chance encounter on…

London CNN  —  Kevin and Jessica Cellura had just 48 hours in December to make an enormous family decision. The couple, who both work as teachers, had to decide if they should take a job offer to teach in Morocco and leave Asheville, North Carolina, with their two youngest children. But the Celluras say their decision was made easier by the presidential election results just weeks earlier. “We will get away from the chaos … I feel like the America as we knew it growing up is slipping away pretty fast,” Jessica Cellura told CNN. The Celluras are part of…

70 years ago, ‘The Seven Year Itch’ cemented Marilyn Monroe as a Hollywood goddess. See how When Marilyn Monroe’s dress was lifted by a breeze from a New York City subway grate in the 1955 movie “The Seven Year Itch,” it helped cement the then 29-year-old as the prototypical Hollywood goddess. CNN remembers the moment.

London CNN  —  It began with a cryptic post on Instagram. In December 2024, Jonathan Anderson shared a photo of his shadow reflected onto a sandy beach at dusk, with the caption “sunset”. Was it an allusion to new beginnings, per the idiom “riding off into the sunset,” many in the fashion world began to wonder? Or was it nothing more than an innocuous holiday snap? What’s now clear is that it wasn’t the latter. On June 2, Anderson has been named as the new creative director at Dior, overseeing womenswear, menswear and haute couture. In an emailed statement, Anderson…

Editor’s Note: Delving into the archives of pop culture history, “Remember When?” is a CNN Style series offering a nostalgic look at the celebrity outfits that defined their eras. CNN  —  Remember when Carrie Bradshaw of “Sex and the City” wore a Christian Dior newspaper-print dress? Bradshaw, the fashion-forward sex columnist, played by Sarah Jessica Parker in the television series, defined late 1990s and early 2000s lifestyle aspirations for Gen X women when she and her three friends dominated the small screen from 1998 to 2004. (The television series and sequel aired on HBO and Max, respectively, which share the…