Month: October 2026

Few designers have shaped the way Australian women dress quite like Carla Zampatti. She was 23 when she produced her first collection in Sydney in 1965, and she was still working more than five decades later when she died in April 2021, aged 78 — the story of an Italian-born migrant who built one of … Read more

Most people meet the Mona Lisa long before they reach the Louvre — as a poster, a meme, or a blink-and-you-miss-it film cameo — yet that familiarity hides a stranger story: the portrait became a global icon only after a Louvre employee stole it in 1911, and the international hunt that followed turned a Renaissance … Read more

Every family has that one performer whose catchphrases get quoted without anyone remembering the movie they came from. Eddie Murphy is that kind of comedy icon: born in Brooklyn on April 3, 1961, he joined Saturday Night Live at 19 and, according to Variety (entertainment trade), turned stand-up fame into movie stardom almost overnight. The … Read more