In 2012, not long after Jessica Chastain wrapped Zero Dark Thirty, a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about the search for Osama Bin Laden that garnered the 44-year-old actress her second Academy Award nomination, she took a serious look at the Hollywood around her. “I immediately saw there weren’t a lot of options for ... More

With its beginnings tracing back to 1947, Max Mara was founded by Achille Maramotti, who started his career that year as a couture designer. Four years later, he officially established the House of Max Mara; the name “Mara” stemming from his own surname, and “Max,” a reference to Count ... More

Pirelli announces the stars of its 50th anniversary edition 2017 calendar: actresses Alicia Vikander, Nicole Kidman, Zhang Ziyi, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz Sanchez, Lupita Amondi Nyong’o, Charlotte Rampling, Dame Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet and Lea Seydoux. The calendar will ... More

It’s been quite a journey for Eclipsed. The play, which follows a group of Liberian women in the final days of that country’s civil war, got its start at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2009 and moved to Manhattan’s Public Theater before finally landing on Broadway this month.  “I ... More

In her role as the sword-wielding Michonne on The Walking Dead, Danai Gurira portrays a woman fighting her way through a world overrun by bloodthirsty zombies. While the show—the most-watched in cable television history—is based on a post-apocalyptic series of graphic novels, it’s instead a real-life story of terror and ... More

One doesn’t know quite what to expect from Katie Holmes. At the beginning of her career, she was the typical ingénue, best known for her portrayal, on Dawson’s Creek, of the literal girl-next-door. Even in her “edgier” big-screen projects, like Go and Pieces of April, an air of wholesomeness clung ... More

Inside the volcano Jennifer Connelly was about to learn the truth. The actress was in Iceland, taking a break from filming the biblical-disaster epic Noah, when she and her family decided to visit one of the island nation's famous lava pits. It seemed, as so many things do, like a ... More

Etro's new 4,500-square-foot Rodeo Drive shop, the brand's fifth, will open its doors this month and offer shoppers the womenswear, menswear and accessories collections, plus a line of fragrances. An impressive collection of objects and artworks—statues of Laocoon and Venus De Capua, a 1950s oil painting and silver pieces from the 19th century—as ... More