Can a beauty pageant become a seminar on global politics and commerce?

Catherine, Princess of Wales seems to live in a state of perpetual waiting. What does that do to a woman?

For over three decades, Judith Thurman has captured the often ineffable pull of fashion and beauty like few others.

Long before the current body-positivity movement, Ms. Alley made people think about fatness on TV, often at her own expense.

The model and author spoke about writing “No Filter: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful.”