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Why Suze Orman Never Goes Out to Dinner
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Why Suze Orman Never Goes Out to Dinner

Suze Orman, one of the most famous financial advisers in America, doesn’t believe your money should control you.“I hate budgets,” said Orman, 72, comparing them to diets. “If you restrict, you limit, you cut back, you don’t buy this, you don’t buy that, and then all of a sudden you explode and you go out and you buy everything at once.” Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
How a $13.99 Snoopy Sparked a Gen-Z Craze
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How a $13.99 Snoopy Sparked a Gen-Z Craze

When Snoopy first appeared in the “Peanuts” comic strip in 1950, his creator Charles M. Schulz couldn’t have guessed that his hand-drawn beagle would spawn one of the hottest toys of 2023.The latest Gen-Z obsession is a $13.99 stuffed Snoopy toy wearing a little blue puffer and a striped hat. A CVS exclusive, the toy is sold out at the pharmacy chain’s locations all over the country. Online, it’s being resold on sites like eBay and Mercari for anywhere between $40 to $70. On Reddit, CVS employees swap stories about receiving dozens of daily phone calls asking if they still have the toy in stock. And on TikTok, young consumers are documenting their quests to get their hands on the stuffed beagle. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1...
Taylor Swift Sells Out Stadiums, Movie Theaters—and Clothes
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Taylor Swift Sells Out Stadiums, Movie Theaters—and Clothes

In August, Nell Diamond, who runs the fashion and lifestyle brand Hill House Home, was in Montana on bridesmaid duty, getting ready for her best friend’s wedding reception. Peeking at her phone between hair and makeup, she found over 100 texts from her employees, and messages kept rolling in. “At first, I couldn’t figure out what we were freaking out about,” said Diamond, founder and CEO of the brand best known for its Nap Dress. Then she saw: Taylor Swift had worn a black matching set from Hill House to the rehearsal dinner of her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff and actress Margaret Qualley, and paparazzi photos were swarming the internet. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
How Fara Homidi Got People to Splurge on This $88 Lipstick
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How Fara Homidi Got People to Splurge on This $88 Lipstick

Fara Homidi calls herself a “mouth watcher.” The makeup artist has always loved observing people talk, smile, laugh. Do their lips quiver when they talk about a certain someone? What do their teeth look like? She finds that people display a lot of personality with their mouths. So when she decided to launch her first makeup line this year, she knew it had to be lip-focused.What she didn’t know was that her $88 sky-blue lip compact would become an immediate object of desire. The refillable metal compact, which includes a lip balm and a colored pigment, comes in just two nudes and two reds. Homidi also sells a $36 lip pencil, a $58 lip brush and a $298 pouch. There’s more on the horizon—she wants to play on the same field as fellow artists Charlotte Tilbury and Pat McGrath, both of whom hav...
Pharrell Williams Brings Louis Vuitton to Hong Kong for Fashion Show
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Pharrell Williams Brings Louis Vuitton to Hong Kong for Fashion Show

HONG KONG—For one night only, this city’s famed promenade along the waterfront was converted into a sandy shoreline. Louis Vuitton, the Parisian luxury powerhouse, staged a glitzy fashion show in Hong Kong Thursday evening, with a front row studded by Chinese celebrities, music by the brand’s menswear creative director Pharrell Williams and models marching along the fabricated seaboard in sailor uniforms and surfer wetsuits. The blowout affair—Louis Vuitton’s first show in Hong Kong—asserted LVMH’s commitment to courting Chinese shoppers and projecting confidence in what is one of the world’s largest markets for luxury goods.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
$11.23 to Live Like Martha Stewart (for a Night)
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$11.23 to Live Like Martha Stewart (for a Night)

 Martha Stewart’s 150-plus-acre property in Bedford, N.Y., includes a farm with horse stables and a chicken coop, a fruit orchard, a peacock pen and seven stately houses. One of the abodes opened for a night’s stay this month.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
In Nicolas Cage’s New A24 Movie, Going Viral Is the Stuff of Nightmares
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In Nicolas Cage’s New A24 Movie, Going Viral Is the Stuff of Nightmares

Nobody goes to the movies for a message about the internet. So filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli wrapped his in a bizarro premise with plenty of comedy and a surprisingly apt character for lead actor Nicolas Cage.  In the new “Dream Scenario,” recently released in theaters by A24, Cage plays an unremarkable guy who starts showing up inexplicably in others’ dreams, even those of far-flung strangers. It brings him a strange and unintentional fame, one that starts to sour as public perception shifts against the man making bedtime cameos in people’s minds.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Inside Pharrell’s Celebrity Auction House Gamble
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Inside Pharrell’s Celebrity Auction House Gamble

Louis Vuitton’s mammoth monogram luggage already sells for tens of thousands of dollars on the resale market. But you know what makes a trunk even more valuable? If it was previously owned by Pharrell Williams.Late last year, the Grammy winner and men’s creative director of Louis Vuitton added to his already jammed schedule by opening Joopiter, his very own auction house. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Miss Universe Pageant Business Troubles Could Overshadow the Glamour
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Miss Universe Pageant Business Troubles Could Overshadow the Glamour

When Thai media mogul Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip fulfilled her lifelong dream of buying Miss Universe, it signaled a new chapter for the beleaguered pageant.Miss Universe, which bows tonight in El Salvador, had been limping along with dwindling relevance in recent years. Until 2022, when colorful businesswoman and trans reality star Jakrajutatip, 44, bought it with plans to reinvigorate the pageant. Also known as Anne Jakrajutatip and Anne JKN, Jakrajutatip is the chief executive of Thai media conglomerate JKN Global, which owns television stations, content distribution networks, a beverage factory and other businesses.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8