If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Geotagging yourself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is no longer cutting it. These days, refined travelers are turning to something a bit less tacky and a bit more tasteful when it comes to flaunting their globetrotting, Amex Platinum–having, passport stamp–collecting pursuits — by wearing that frequent-traveler status, quite literally, on their sleeves. We’re talking about the intimate, and relatively new, marriage between the world’s top hotels and luxury designers, which over the years has served a few key purposes: helping a particular resort’s top one percent of loyalists identify each other from Ibiza to Innsbruck and sending guests home with a more sophisticated souvenir than a fridge magnet, all while feeding into the universal obsession with collectibles (all the better if the items a...
Caitríona Balfe‘s “Outlander” era is over. The actress bid farewell to the series with the show’s finale in May 2026, after more than 10 years playing Claire Fraser on the Starz series. “Having been on a show for over a decade, my time was always so limited as to what I could do,” Balfe told WWD in March. Now, the actress is “like a child in a candy store,” taking on new projects, such as the upcoming “Sense and Sensibility” adaptation, and hitting the red carpet afresh with couture, runway and luxury styles aplenty curated by stylist and collaborator Nicky Yates. “I’m just so grateful that I get to do different things,” Balfe said. “I’m really curious about what else I can do.” WWD breaks down some of those new moments from the actress’ post-“Outlander” chapter ahead. March 2026 Caitríona Balfe attends the Starz ...