You may not know her name, but the striking work of self-taught hair artist Elisabeth Anayes Niouky is certainly turning ...

In an industry characterized by tradition, tough economic realities have seen luxury watchmakers looking to innovate.

Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but also ...

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has apologized for featuring children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its latest advertising campaign. Shot by photographer Gabriele Galimberti, images ...

Hand built by Édouard T. Arsenault in the 1980s, The Bottle Houses are located on Prince Edward Island, just off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada. The project, which features a six-gabled house, a ...

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.

Like many women in South Korea, Bae Eun-jeong never left the house without makeup. She hated her natural face. Bae’s beauty regimen routinely took two hours, to the point that she’d give herself less ...

If we could visualize the year ahead, what color would it be? The abstract thought is an annual consideration for the experts at the Pantone Color Institute, who trawl through high-fashion runways, ...

America has witnessed unprecedented levels of transgender visibility in recent years. But for 32-year-old Jess Dugan, who has been photographing the country’s trans communities for the past 15 years, ...

Editor’s Note: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a ...

The Repulse Bay is a luxury apartment complex in Hong Kong that is famous locally for the curious hole cut into the body of its undulating façade. It is not alone. Along the coast of Hong Kong Island, ...

With pseudonyms like the The Bastard, The Broker, The Astronaut and The Vampire, they’ve banded together deep inside the world of Soviet-era watch collecting. This cabal of watch aficionados spans the ...