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MENUSEARCH QUOTES Marketing Media Money A $129.99 winter coat by Chinese fashion label Orolay has become a number one best-seller on Amazon, becoming so popular it is now known as the “Amazon coat,” after going viral on social media. The Women‘s Thickened Down Jacket has been reviewed more than 6,000 …

A version of this story originally appeared on NYR Daily, the online section of The New York Review of Books. Nebiye A. crossed the Bosphorus on a ferry, far from the home and life she once had. On her way to a meeting, Nebiye’s short hair — once wrapped in a headscarf …

Vivienne Westwood, known for her out-there pieces and politically motivated art, made a splash at this year’s London fashion week, taking aim at such political issues as global warming, Brexit, and the depletion of the rainforest. The show, which took place at Westminster’s St John’s Smith Square, celebrated and upheld …

A flurry of new businesses are opening in Fresno and Clovis. They’re all over the map – geographically and in terms of what they sell. There’s a new game and comic book store, a thrift shop with a familiar name, a new boutique coming to Clovis and a florist/home decor …

A HORRIFYING mass grave of more than 1,000 Jewish men, women and children shot in the head by Nazis has been unearthed at a building site in Belarus. Discovered with gunshot wounds to their skulls, the victims‘ remains were buried in a pit located at a building site in the …

Did you know that men are wearing watches that don’t even tell the time? That’s the latest watch trend according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. When people can so easily check the time on their phones these days, it is actually a surprise that watches haven’t …

A mass grave with the remains of a suspected 1,000-plus Jewish people slain by the Nazis has been found in Belarus. Bones of men, women and children with gunshot wounds to their skulls have been located at a building site in the city of Brest on the Polish border. The …

A flurry of familiar chain stores in the Fresno area has filed for bankruptcy. Some are closing. The future of others are still up in the air. But the retailers are facing many of the same challenges: Competition from online shopping, crushing debt and an inability to adapt to the …

The model opening British designer Grace Wales Bonner’s Fall 2019 show took on the runway sporting an American football-inspired tunic embroidered with the name of African-American writer and cultural theorist Ishmael Reed. Reed’s seminal 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo gave the collection its name. Amongst guests lined up at the Serpentine …

On the first floor of the upscale, Riyadh Park shopping mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, customers in black abayas mill around Victoria’s Secret, examining colorful panties and bras. There are no scantily clad mannequins in the window — instead, they’re dressed in modest pajamas. Jihan, a salesclerk, gets ready to …