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Can you imagine sending a WhatsApp message without touching the phone? Capturing a photograph exactly from the point of view of your own eyes with just a voice command? What until very recently seemed like a scene from science fiction is beginning to quietly settle into everyday life thanks to the new Ray-Ban Meta. An accessory that combines artificial intelligence, camera, sound, and voice control with a clear premise: to make technology stop interrupting moments and simply start accompanying them.

Menopause is a natural stage in a woman’s life, but it is not always experienced easily. The drop in estrogen and progesterone marks the end of the reproductive stage and triggers changes that go far beyond the visible: the skin loses density, hydration, and elasticity; hot flashes, sleep disturbances, fatigue, emotional changes, or discomfort associated with intimate aging may appear. It is a complex reality that for years has been addressed in a fragmented way, when many women need precisely the opposite: a more global, specific, and connected perspective with what they feel day to day.

Diving into the life crisis of Bárbara, a screenwriter in her thirties who binges on benzodiazepines and spends a character as honest as cynical in the series Se tiene que morir mucha gente, is the latest feat of actress Anna Castillo (Barcelona, 1993).

A week ago, while thousands of people tried to get close to the doors of the Teatre Grec, Olivia Rodrigo was singing in Barcelona before barely 2,000 guests at a concert organized by Spotify. Outside, hundreds of fans were left without tickets. Inside, Rodrigo celebrated that nine of her songs have surpassed one billion streams and also debuted a new aesthetic stage coinciding with the release of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Love. Hours later, the internet had decided that the important thing was neither the concert nor her music. It was her look.

From San Sebastián, where she is shooting a new production, Inma Cuesta answers the call with that mix of closeness and concentration of someone in the middle of filming. Her joining Berlín y la dama del armiño was not part of a calculated strategy, but rather an unexpected intrusion: a proposal that arrived in the last days of the year, when work no longer appears on the immediate horizon and everything seems to shift towards the domestic.

The Metropolitan Museum of New York dresses its grand staircase this Monday night to celebrate a new edition of the Met Gala. A party with a purpose, that of highlighting fashion and its intrinsic link with art, which this edition begins wrapped in controversy due to the intrusion of Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez as hosts of the gala.

The beauty of Louis Garrel is a scientifically proven fact every time he comes up in conversation, ever since he was part of Bertolucci’s The Dreamers more than twenty years ago. His could be considered a cheeky beauty, the kind that triggers the silent envy of the rest of masculinity, less fortunate in looks. What not everyone knows is that, in addition, he is very nice. He yells the name of this reporter as soon as he enters the room at the María Cristina hotel in San Sebastián, where we have arranged to take some photos of him on the day of the premiere of Couture, the film set during Paris Fashion Week that he stars in alongside Angelina Jolie.

Its beauty is such that it seems to have been hand-painted, which is why it has been officially recognized as one of the Most Beautiful Villages in Spain. Unofficially, it has earned another title: “village of the artists.” Perhaps it is because it offers a perfect symbiosis between historical heritage, artistic avant-garde, and landscape richness.

There was a time when an invitation to the Met Gala conferred more authority than visibility. Those who ascended those stairs did not need to amplify their image: they already defined taste. In 2003, when the entry cost $3,500, critic Cathy Horyn described it as “the most expensive party in town.” The sponsor was Gucci, Tom Ford was at the height of his influence (not yet measured in followers or likes), and the detail (4,000 peonies in the centerpieces) was not excess, but language. Taste was the theme. Taste was the argument.

The popularization of aesthetic treatments with fillers, the increasing use of drugs like Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonists, or even everyday gestures such as constantly leaning towards the mobile phone, are shaping a new physiognomy of the contemporary face. It is increasingly common to observe signs of sagging at early ages, in a context where concern about appearance is skyrocketing.