Por Leah Dolan, CNN

¿Acaso el mal gusto se convierte en buena moda? En los Premios Grammy de 2026, varias celebridades optaron por prendas un tanto peculiares y un poco feas. Podría decirse que también fueron las más memorables.

Entre algunos de los atuendos más convencionales y de buen gusto —véase a Hailey Bieber con un vestido negro sin tirantes de Aläia, o a Madison Beer con un vestido de Andrew Kwon—, una gran cantidad de looks desconcertantes nos mantuvo enganchados al evento.

Cher en el escenario con un look de cuero y encaje, con una falda de cuero deshilachada que daba la impresión de que se caía. Amy Taylor, líder de la banda australiana de pub rock Amyl and the Sniffers, lució un mono color carne con aberturas de encaje rosa fucsia, superpuesto con un bolero rosa esponjoso y una cascada de flecos hasta el suelo. Jon Batiste con una chaqueta militar completamente de pedrería.

Eso sin mencionar a los ídolos de la alfombra roja: Chappell Roan con un vestido Mugler personalizado con cierre de pezones, una nueva versión del atrevido vestido original de 1998, reeditado con areolas protésicas; Bad Bunny con el primer look masculino personalizado de Schiaparelli: un esmoquin de terciopelo con solapas pronunciadas y un atrevido corsé con cordones que le recorría toda la espalda; Lola Young con un suéter y pantalones de chándal de Vivienne Westwood, elegante con una corbata a rayas; mientras que Shaboozey se dedicó por completo a un atuendo de mitades extravagantes: una chaqueta y chaleco de esmoquin Ralph Lauren combinados con vaqueros con cinturón, también de la marca.

Si bien la definición de mal gusto es subjetiva, no siempre tiene que ser tan ostentosa como la pedrería de Batiste o el vestido de Roan, que dejaba al descubierto los pezones. Billie Eilish, vestida con la marca sueca de nicho Hodakova, desafió los límites del juicio con un atuendo deliberadamente desaliñado. La chaqueta y la falda de Eilish estaban confeccionadas con pantalones de hombre rediseñados, con cada bolsillo, trabilla y costura original de la forma anterior del pantalón visibles en el nuevo look. Sus largos calcetines blancos caían justo por debajo de la rodilla, lo que hacía que sus ligueros —el equivalente masculino, eternamente poco favorecedor, a los tan fetichizados ligueros femeninos— fueran redundantes.

Desde la perspectiva de lucir hermosa al estilo convencional de Valentino Garavani, el atuendo de Eilish era ineficazmente “incorrecto”. Pero había algo profundamente cautivador en él —la abundancia de tiras inútiles, los calcetines y los tacones de aguja puntiagudos, el monedero británico de los años 50— que te hacía querer mirar más de cerca.

“Lo feo es atractivo, lo feo es emocionante. Quizás porque es más nuevo”, declaró Prada a T Magazine en 2013. “La investigación de la fealdad es, para mí, más interesante que la idea burguesa de la belleza. ¿Y por qué? Porque lo feo es humano. Toca el lado malo y sucio de las personas”. En las pasarelas de Prada y Miu Miu, la diseñadora se ha esforzado por desafiar nuestros prejuicios sartoriales en nombre de la novedad. La colección Primavera-Verano 1996 de Prada, “Banal Excentricity” (conocida como “Ugly Chic”), utilizó patrones típicos de cortinas y manteles de la década de 1950, transformándolos en camisas, polos y vestidos hasta la rodilla, con sandalias gruesas. Más de veinte años después, Prada ha continuado con su enfoque distintivo, a menudo paradójico, que desafía la belleza convencional. ¿Por qué?

Como al leer un libro largo y difícil, solo crecemos a partir de lo que nos desafía. Prada lo entiende, al igual que diseñadores como Jean Paul Gaultier, Demna y Marc Jacobs. Las prendas incómodas generan conversación, requieren más atención, invitan a mirar y a detenerse más tiempo: todos ellos posibles indicadores de valor. En realidad, el mal gusto siempre ha sido beneficioso para la industria de la moda. La industria d

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By MJ Lee, CNN

(CNN) — Lawyers representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein are asking judges to force the Justice Department to take down the millions of Epstein-related documents it has posted online, saying in a letter dated Sunday that the failure to properly redact victims’ information has triggered an “unfolding emergency.”

The letter, written by prominent Epstein victims’ lawyers Brittany Henderson and Brad Edwards and addressed to two federal judges in New York who are overseeing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s cases, requests an “immediate judicial intervention” to address the fact that victims’ information was included in the millions of Epstein-related records that were released.

Henderson told CNN that the letter was sent to the judges. The letter is not yet available on the public court docket.

“Within the past 48 hours, the undersigned alone has reported thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors whose lives have been turned upside down by DOJ’s latest release,” Henderson and Edwards wrote to judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer.

“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,” they also wrote.

The lawyers list numerous examples of redaction errors that they’ve come across, such as one minor victim’s name allegedly being “revealed 20 times in a single document.” Once those mistakes were reported to the Justice Department, the department only fixed three of the errors, “leaving 17 instances still unpredicted as of this filing,” the lawyers wrote.

Other examples included one email that allegedly lists 32 underage victims “with only one name redacted and 31 left visible,” as well as FBI “302” forms with full first and last names of victims unredacted.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

CNN reported on Friday that multiple survivors, including anonymous “Jane Doe” victims, were seeing their names and information throughout the files that were published.

Sunday’s letter also includes testimony from various anonymous “Jane Doe” victims who described receiving death threats and harassment from the media since the publication of the files.

One Jane Doe is quoted as saying: “The release of this information is not only profoundly distressing and retraumatizing, but it also places me and my child at potential physical risk.”

“DOJ cannot plausibly characterize this as error, negligence, or bureaucratic failure. The task was straightforward: take the list of known victims and redact those names everywhere they appear,” the lawyers wrote. “When DOJ believed it was ready to publish, it needed only to type each victim’s name into its own search function. Any resulting hit should have been redacted before publication. Had DOJ done that, the harm would have been avoided”

In a separate statement to CNN, Henderson said: “With every second that passes, additional harm is being caused to these women. They are scared, they are devastated

By John Towfighi, CNN

New York (CNN) — Wall Street traders are grappling with sharp swings in precious metals, bitcoin is hovering at its lowest level since April and there are lingering nerves about technology stocks.

It’s been a weird few days on Wall Street. Gold and silver, considered havens amid uncertainty, have experienced enormous volatility. A ferocious rally in precious metals this year halted with a painful drop on Friday.

Meanwhile, bitcoin slumped over the weekend, tumbling from above $83,000 to as low as $74,570 and hitting its lowest level since April. Bitcoin is down sharply from a record high above $126,000 in October. And markets in Asia kicked off February on a down note: South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index sank 5.26% on Monday and had its worst day since April.

The hottest trades on Wall Street across the past year — from precious metals to South Korean tech companies — are experiencing turbulence after enormous gains.

Gold hit a record high above $5,550 a troy ounce on Wednesday before dropping 11% on Friday. Silver plunged 31%. Gold early Monday dropped as low as $4,423 before paring losses and trading around $4,710.

Wall Street in recent years has experienced instances of so-called meme stock mania, where traders rally around a specific company to try and ride a surge in its share price. Some investors say similar themes of exuberance have developed around precious metals as they have become increasingly popular investments.

“More recently, some serious froth and leverage entered this asset class…as its continued rally got the attention of individual investors and momentum-based investors alike,” Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak + Co, said in a note.

“The recent run up in precious metals feels to have an enormous speculative element,” Jim Reid, global head of macro research at Deutsche Bank, said in a note.

“While a correction had been increasingly anticipated — and was arguably overdue — the speed and depth of the sell-off proved a stark wake-up call,” Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, said in a note.

Hansen said the rally in precious metals and particularly silver — supported by strong demand from Chinese investors — had also been “increasingly driven by FOMO and speculative excess.”

“When gold and silver turn into hot topics at dinner tables and in workplaces, it is often a sign that a particular phase of the rally is nearing exhaustion,” Hansen said.

While precious metals have seen wild swings, bitcoin — once pitched as a form of “digital gold” and considered an alternative store of value — has languished this year amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value is down roughly 10% this year, struggling to gain traction after closing slightly in the red for 2025.

Meanwhile, in South Korea, the market had its worst day in months amid nerves about spending by companies on artificial intelligence. The drop comes while Wall Street is in the midst of corporate earnings season, and investors are similarly assessing the health of big tech companies’ spending plans on AI.

US stocks turned into the green and rose Monday morning to kick off February trading: The Dow was up 442 points, or 0.9%. The benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.6%.

“While technically stores of value, still with strong long-term fundamentals, the total collapse in precious metals prices shows that any market can become gripped by mania, especially in the age of financialization and gamification,” Kyla Rodda, senior financial market analyst at Capital.com, said in a note.

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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN

Rome (CNN) — Legend has it that tossing a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain guarantees a return to the Eternal City. Two coins promise love with an Italian. Three, marrying an Italian.

As of February 2, however, making any of those wishes comes with a price. Visitors now need to buy a 2-euro ticket — just over $2 — to approach the fountain and throw coins into its waters.

Rome’s city government introduced the new ticketing system for non-residents as part of its latest effort to manage crowds at one of the capital’s most overwhelmed landmarks. Tickets are required from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. the rest of the week. After 10 p.m., the barriers are opened and access is free for all.

On the first day of the new system, not everyone was convinced. A group of Spanish tourists, unwilling to pay, stood outside the barriers and flung coins toward the fountain from above — several missing the water entirely. Below, paying visitors ducked as coins rained down. A city official said patrols would eventually be introduced to prevent injuries from errant throws.

The Trevi Fountain, immortalized in the movie “La Dolce Vita,” has become a flashpoint for Rome’s overtourism problem, particularly during the summer peak. The small piazza is often packed shoulder to shoulder with visitors, many clutching melting gelato or refilling water bottles from the fountain.

In 2024, the city tested a barrier system to limit access to the fountain’s edge, gauging whether crowd control was feasible. The result was a sharp drop in the number of people willing to queue for close-up access to the 18th-century Baroque masterpiece, which marks the terminal point of an ancient aqueduct.

Tackling overtourism

Still, demand remains high. In 2025, more than 10 million people lined up to approach the fountain, with daily peaks of around 70,000 visitors during the busiest periods, Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said.

City officials estimate the new ticket could generate between 6.5 million and 20 million euros annually — roughly $7.7 million to $23 million.

Ticket holders will be prohibited from eating or drinking near the fountain and, officials say, will also be shielded from pickpockets who frequently target distracted tourists in the crowded square.

Alessandro Onorato, Rome’s councillor for major events, tourism, sport and fashion, said the fee was designed primarily to curb overtourism, with proceeds earmarked for maintenance costs and staffing.

“If the Trevi Fountain were in New York City, they would charge $100 to enter,” Onorato said at the inauguration on Monday morning.

Some visitors appeared unbothered by the price. Raul, a tourist from Argentina, told CNN he would gladly pay 2 euros to see the fountain up close for the first time — though he skipped the fee on Monday because he had visited before.

“Two euros is fine to pay to see something like this up close,” he said. “More than that, maybe not.” Moments later, he tossed his coin from outside the barriers.

The Trevi Fountain ticket follows a growing number of Italian measures aimed at regulating tourism, including Venice’s peak-time entry fee for day trippers, and new restrictions at social media–famous sites such as Juliet’s balcony in Verona and the Santa Maddalena church at the foot of the Dolomites in northern Italy.

The coins collected from the fountain — around 1.5 million euros a year — will continue to be donated to the Catholic charity Caritas, which funds programs for the poor.

Tickets can be bought online or via QR codes displayed at the sit