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Tom Ford is being slammed by fashion insiders and fans alike after ruffling fashionable feathers yet again as the chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. This year’s CFDA Awards — considered the fashion world’s Oscars — was postponed, but the nominations came out this week to a flurry of criticism, including allegations …
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She’s the mother of reinvention. Almost three decades ago, Kathy Jacobs was a wide-eyed Ford model who landed the cover of Woman’s World. After years of modeling in New York, the married mother of one turned to a career in baking and making her own beauty products. Now, at the age of 56, Jacobs is …
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This isn’t your usual round table tale. The new Netflix show “Cursed” reimagines the origin story for King Arthur, Merlin and Lancelot — literary characters who have become pop culture staples in countless movies and shows. But central to this retelling is a young Lady of the Lake, played by Katherine Langford. Premiering Friday, the …
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Ford employees are prodding the company to stop making cop cars amid a nationwide uprising against police brutality. Ford staffers made the demand in a letter to Chief Executive Jim Hackett and Executive Chairman Bill Ford that was recently circulated at the company’s Dearborn, Mich., headquarters, according to news reports. “Throughout our history, the vehicles …
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Donald Trump paid a friend to sit his SAT exams, his niece has claimed in a scathing tell-all memoir. Mary L Trump, a psychologist, wrote that the US president paid “Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker” to take the exams, which are used for university admissions, to …
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Researchers at the University of Oxford announced Tuesday that they had found the first proven life-saving coronavirus treatment, after a clinical trial of dexamethasone, a low-cost steroid treatment, cut the risk of death by one-third for coronavirus patients on ventilators and one-fifth for those on oxygen. The study, part of the U.K.’s “Recovery Trial” project …
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Cassidy Gifford said “I do.” Kathie Lee Gifford’s 26-year-old daughter recently married fiancé Ben Wierda in an intimate backyard wedding, Page Six has confirmed. “Ben and Cassidy got married in an intimate setting in his backyard in Michigan,” the bride’s manager told Page Six in a statement. “They’re planning on having a big celebration when …
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Ford Motor Company is bringing back the SUV infamously used as a getaway car by O.J. Simpson — on the disgraced football star’s 73rd birthday. The car manufacturer will unveil the 2021 Ford Bronco on July 9. A Ford rep said the launch date was “purely coincidental” but the company has no plans to change …
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General Motors is developing an electric van aimed at business users, joining a growing list of carmakers planning EVs for the same segment that includes customers such as Amazon and UPS, five people familiar with the plans told Reuters. That multibillion-dollar strategy could enable GM, Ford and at least two EV startups to build and …
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In the week since US auto factories reopened after coronavirus lockdowns, workers at all three Detroit automakers have tested positive for COVID-19 but only Ford has temporarily closed plants. The US auto industry reopened many plants last week after a two-month shutdown due to the global pandemic. To ensure safety during the outbreak, companies imposed …