They’ll be treated to an authentic Persian breakfast, while taking in festive gowns and sets embroidered with jasmine vines rendered in leather, a Hilá signature.
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Ari Stark,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
The football jersey featured his last name — Ocasio — embroidered on the back, and the number 64 on the front.
In one moment, Robbie wore a look that puts a spotlight on an emerging designer, Dilara Findikoglu, who created a dress braided with synthetic hair, for the film’s London premiere.
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Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
The shoes feature two strips across the toes that overlap and are braided together at the center, creating a subtle crisscross knot.
Distinctly sweet notes of perfume also hung thick in the air.
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Cami Fateh,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
The possibility of an even longer work stoppage — and the threat of regular season games being canceled — hung over the upcoming CBA negotiations even before Clark’s sudden exit.
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Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
Unlike the portraits in Newman’s book, which were painted to glorify their sitters, many of the images in the Epstein files have a queasy, destabilizing aspect.
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Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2026
Months into 2025, only 400 of the city’s affected 16,000 intersections had had the curbs painted red.
Her vacant stares are laced with just enough recognizable humanity to make the camera question what, if anything, is going on behind her eyes — a mystery that looms over the entire story.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2026
In 2006, Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko died after drinking a cup of tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 in a London hotel.
Residents looked on in awe as atmospheric friction brought on by the blistering speed of re-entry wreathed the capsule's heat shield in glowing plasma.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
16 Jan. 2026
Marinated salmon and confit artichoke arrived wreathed in smoke under a glass cloche to heighten our attention to umami.
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