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Photography
22 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week
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Written by: Gabriel H. Sanchez
From the felony charge filed against Jussie Smollett to the stunning Super Snow Moon over New York City, these are the most striking and memorable pictures from this past week.
Credit by: Tannen Maury / REX / Shutterstock
Empire actor Jussie Smollett emerges from the Cook County Court complex after posting 10% of a $100,000 bond in Chicago, on Feb. 21, 2019. Smollett was charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report claiming he was attacked in an incident that has drawn national attention.
Credit by: Go Nakamura / Reuters
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump in New York City on Presidents Day, Feb. 18.
Credit by: Go Nakamura / Reuters
Honduran migrants cross the Rio Grande toward the United States on Feb. 16.
Credit by: Drew Angerer
Rev. Al Sharpton and Sen. Kamala Harris, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, talk while having lunch at Sylvia's Restaurant on Feb. 21, in Harlem, New York City.
Credit by: Brian Snyder
Sen. Cory Booker, a Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, talks to 9-year-old Alex Pringle during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Feb. 16.
Credit by: Alex Wroblewski
Roger Stone, former adviser and longtime associate of President Trump, arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, DC, on Feb. 21
Credit by: Shamil Zhumatov
Former US Marine Paul Whelan is held in a courtroom cage on suspicion of spying in Moscow, on Feb. 22.
Credit by: Nam Y. Huh
Vicente Juarez's daughter, Diana Juarez, cries at a makeshift memorial on Feb. 17, in Aurora, Illinois, near the Henry Pratt manufacturing company facility, where her father and several others were killed last Friday by a gunman.
Credit by: Drew Angerer
Leanne Simonsen, wife of fallen NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen, is escorted by officers as her late husband's remains are carried out of the church following his funeral service on Feb. 20, in Hampton Bays, New York. Simonsen was killed by friendly fire while responding with fellow NYPD officers to a robbery at a store in Queens last week.
Credit by: Frederick Florin
French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a grave vandalized with a swastika during a visit at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France, on Feb. 19.
Credit by: Nazeer Al-khatib
Rawan, an 11-year-old Syrian girl, poses on a destroyed tank with her stuffed bear near the village of Yazi Bagh on Feb. 19.
Culture
15 Super Awkward Moments From The 2019 Oscars
Content Courtesy of: buzzfeednews.com
Written by: Ryan Schocket
1. Well, there was no host.
The Oscars offically Won't Have A Host This Year After The Kevin Hart Controversy
2. Glenn Close got caught making these faces (!!!!) in the background:
3. Bradley Cooper couldn't hear on the carpet:
4. Ryan Seacrest and Rami Malek had this awk dab/hug/whisper to each other combo handshake:
5. Ashley Graham did this move with Jason Momoa:
6. Irina Shayk sat between Bradley and Lady Gaga and everyone was like 👀👀:
7. Rami Malek's bowtie was very crooked during his red carpet walk:
Don't worry, Lady Gaga came to the rescue and fixed it :)
8. The winners of Best Hairstyle and Makeup had some trouble with their speech:
9. Hannah Bleacher called out Jay Hart for stepping on her dress:
10. Pharrell wore shorts:
11. Spike Lee didn't have the best reaction when Awkwafina mentioned being star struck by him:
12. People thought Irina Shayk had evil in her eyes during Bradley and Gaga's performance of "Shallow." It spawned memes:
13. Frances McDormand didn't feel like talking:
14. Everyone thought Glenn Close was going to win her first Oscar, but in a huge upset, Olivia Colman won:
15. A Green Book producer's mic was cut while he dedicated his Oscar to Carrie Fisher. We could hear it, but attendees couldn't:
Fashion
Karl Lagerfeld, Designer Who Defined Luxury Fashion, Is Dead
Content Courtesy of: nytimes.com
Written by: Vanessa Friedman
Karl Lagerfeld, the most prolific designer of the 20th and 21st centuries and a man whose career formed the prototype of the modern luxury fashion industry, died on Tuesday in Paris.
Though his birth year was a matter of some dispute, Mr. Lagerfeld, who lived in Paris, was generally thought to be 85. His death was announced by Chanel, with which he had long been associated.
“More than anyone I know, he represents the soul of fashion: restless, forward-looking and voraciously attentive to our changing culture,” Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue, said of Mr. Lagerfeld when presenting him with the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2015.
Creative director of Chanel since 1983 and Fendi since 1965, and founder of his own line, Mr. Lagerfeld was the definition of a fashion polyglot, able to speak the language of many different brands at the same time (not to mention many languages themselves: He read in English, French, German and Italian).
In his 80s, when most of his peers were retiring to their yachts or country estates, he was designing an average of 14 new collections a year, ranging from couture to the high street — and not counting collaborations and special projects. “Ideas come to you when you work,” he said backstage before a Fendi show at age 83.
His signature combinations of “high fashion and high camp” attracted admirers like Rihanna; Princess Caroline of Monaco; Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund; and Julianne Moore.
Mr. Lagerfeld was also a photographer, whose work was exhibited at the Pinacothèque de Paris; a publisher, having founded his own imprint for Steidl, Edition 7L; and the author of a popular 2002 diet book, “The Karl Lagerfeld Diet,” about how he had lost 92 pounds.
Mr. Lagerfeld in 1954, after winning the coat category in a design competition in Paris.
His greatest calling, however, was as the orchestrator of his own myth.
A self-identified “caricature,” with his dark glasses, powdered ponytail, black jeans, fingerless gloves, starched collars, Chrome Hearts jewelry and obsessive Diet Coke consumption, he achieved such a level of global fame — and controversy — that a $200 Karl Barbie doll, created in collaboration with the toymaker Mattel, sold out in less than an hour in 2014.
He was variously referred to as a “genius,” the “kaiser” and “overrated.” His contribution to fashion was not in creating a new silhouette, as designers like Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior and Coco Chanel herself did.
Rather, he created a new kind of designer: the shape-shifter.
That is to say, he was the creative force who lands at the top of a heritage brand and reinvents it by identifying its sartorial semiology and then pulls it into the present with a healthy dose of disrespect and a dollop of pop culture.
Not that he put it that way exactly. What he said was: “Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.”
This approach has become almost quotidian in the industry, but before Mr. Lagerfeld was hired at Chanel, when the brand was fading into staid irrelevance, kept aloft on a raft of perfume and cosmetics, it was a new and startling idea.
That he dared act on it, and then kept doing so with varying degrees of success for decades, transformed not only the fortunes of Chanel (now said to have revenues of more than $4 billion a year) but also his own profile.
And it cleared a new path for designers who came after, from Tom Ford (who likewise transformed Gucci) to John Galliano (Dior), Riccardo Tisci (Givenchy, Burberry) and Tomas Maier (Bottega Veneta).
Mr. Lagerfeld showing one of his ball gowns in 1979.
A ‘Fashion Phenomenon’
Those who wanted to dismiss Mr. Lagerfeld referred to him as a “styliste”: a designer who creates his looks by repurposing what already exists, as opposed to inventing anything new. But he rejected the idea of fashion-as-art, and the designer-as-tortured genius. His goal was more opportunistic.
“I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon,” he once said.
Indeed, his output as a designer was rivaled only by his outpourings as a master of the telling aphorism — so much so that his quotations were collected in a book, “The World According to Karl,” in 2013.
Some choice excerpts: “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat,” and “I’m very much down to earth. Just not this earth.”
Whether his statements were true was immaterial (anyway, it was conceptually true, or true at that moment). The truth could be a fungible concept to Mr. Lagerfeld, who was fond of taking creative license with the past. Sources have differed on his birth year, for example. Was it 1938, as Chanel believed, or 1933, as a book by the writer Alicia Drake asserted? Or was it 1935, as he told the magazine Paris Match in 2013? (The Hamburg Genealogical Society says he was born on Sept. 10, 1935.)
His personal proclivities were a constantly mutating collection of decades, people and disciplines. His one great fear was of being bored. His conversations (or monologues) could, in almost one breath, bounce from Anita Ekberg romping in the Trevi fountain, to how rich women in the 1920s slept under ermine sheets, and then to the Danish fairy tale illustrator Kay Nielsen. His one blind spot was his own mortality, which he refused to acknowledge.
As he said in the 2008 documentary “Lagerfeld Confidential”: “I don’t want to be real in other people’s lives. I want to be an apparition.”
Karl-Otto Lagerfeld was born in Hamburg to Otto Lagerfeld, a well-off managing director of the German branch of the American Milk Products Company, and the former Elisabeth Bahlmann. His mother was Otto’s second wife, and Karl had both an older half sister, Thea, and an older sister, Martha Christiane.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
His mother was, by all accounts, the single most formative influence on her precocious son, who often reported that he had disliked his childhood. His father moved his family to a small town in the north of Germany during World War II, and Karl, who was given to wearing a formal suit and tie to school, did not exactly fit in.
“When I was 14 I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad,” he was quoted as saying. “But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful, and that shows when you smoke.’ ”
She was responsible, he said, for his fast-forward manner of speech and voluminous conversational references. In an onstage interview at Lincoln Center in 2013, he told the actress Jessica Chastain that when his mother had asked a question, he “had to answer quickly, and it had to be funny.”
“If I thought of something to say 10 minutes later,” he said, “she would slap me.”
Karl escaped to Paris as a teenager, and though he did not go to art school or receive a classic fashion education, he entered, in 1954, a fashion competition called the International Wool Secretariat (now reborn as the International Woolmark Prize) and won the coat category; Yves Saint Laurent, also a young designer, won in the dress category that year.
Mr. Lagerfeld was hired at the couture house of Pierre Balmain and remained there for three years until he left for Jean Patou. He stayed at that house for five years, until deciding to trade the more rarefied environs of the couture for a freelance career in the emerging world of 1960s ready-to-wear.
He went on to do freelance design work for Krizia, Ballantyne, Charles Jourdan and Chloé, where he stayed for over 10 years and became close to the founder, Gaby Aghion, developing his trademark irreverence for style’s sacred cows.
The approach could also be seen at Fendi, starting in the mid-1960s, when Mr. Lagerfeld was brought in by the family to transform the brand from boring bourgeois furrier into hip fashion name.
Mr. Lagerfeld in New York in 2002, when he received a lifetime achievement award at the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s 40th awards gala.
And Now, ‘Fun Fur’
He refused to treat such luxury pelts as mink and sable too preciously. Instead he shaved them, dyed them, tufted them and otherwise created the concept of “Fun Fur,” which gave the brand its enduring double F logo.
Silvia Fendi, the only member of the third generation still engaged with the brand, said that even as a child, “when Karl came” she knew “something special was going on and I should pay attention.”
He also started collecting: furniture, books, magazines — even apartments. He would delve deep into decades and their aesthetic movements, from Art Deco to Memphis, the Bauhaus to the space age, and then discard them, auctioning off his carefully curated acquisitions without nostalgia or emotion. (It was a characteristic of his personal relationships too, according to those who knew him.)
Mr. Lagerfeld left Chloé in 1982 and took on Chanel — returning first to the haute couture and, the next year, to ready-to-wear. It proved an alchemic combination of designer and brand, given the house’s rich iconography (ropes of pearls, camellias, bouclé, Cs), which Mr. Lagerfeld treated like toys that were his for the twisting.
A photograph of the original supermodels — Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington — as a motorcycle gang in pastel colored Chanel bouclé minisuits and biker caps captured his iconoclasm. Women were breaking glass ceilings and refusing to play by the old rules, and Mr. Lagerfeld transformed Chanel into the armor they could wear to do it.
His work so clearly expressed the ethos of the moment that his early “muse,” the model Ines de la Fressange, was later chosen as the model for a new bust of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic — at which point Mr. Lagerfeld, incensed at the idea of having to share her, ended their professional relationship. (They made up years later.)
Celebrities flocked to Chanel, and to Mr. Lagerfeld, who seized on the marketing possibilities. He teamed up with the movie director Baz Luhrmann and the actress Nicole Kidman to make short promotional films; Mr. Lagerfeld later directed the actresses Cara Delevingne and Kristen Stewart and the singer Pharrell Williams in his own minifeatures about Chanel.
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Mr. Lagerfeld in Berlin in 2015 with a painting of Choupette, his Birman cat.
As social media exploded, Mr. Lagerfeld understood early on how widely disseminated images had the power to transform a show for the trade into a show that would resonate in the digital wilderness. He trucked in a 265-ton iceberg from Sweden for one collection, and built an airplane hangar, a brasserie and a supermarket (stocked with Chanel dishwasher powder and Chanel pasta) for others, all in the confines of the Grand Palais, his Parisian presentation venue of choice.
A Cat in the Lap of Luxury
While his professional life became ever grander, however, his personal life remained a mystery. Mr. Lagerfeld lived alone in a Left Bank apartment crowded with books and clothes, sharing it only with a Birman cat called Choupette, who became as famous as her master, with her own maids, pillow, diamond necklaces and Instagram account.
He estimated his library at 300,000 volumes, and he told Susannah Frankel of the British newspaper The Independent that he had more than a thousand of his signature white Hilditch & Key shirts.
He traveled with an ever-shifting entourage, though his godson, Hudson Kroenig, was something of a constant in recent years. Hudson’s father is Brad Kroenig, one of Mr. Lagerfeld’s favorite male models (Mr. Lagerfeld used to accessorize his Chanel shows with the occasional man), and Hudson would often appear on the runway with his godfather to take a bow.
Ironically, though he started his own brand in 1984, the Lagerfeld line never found the same success or popularity as Chanel and Fendi, leading naysayers to suggest that Mr. Lagerfeld worked best within the framework of someone else’s vision. His partisans said he simply did not have enough time. (His brand changed ownership a few times; investors included PVH, Apax Partners and Tommy Hilfiger.)
Though rumors often circulated that Mr. Lagerfeld was sick and about to retire, he never did. He had a lifetime contract with both Chanel and Fendi, and he exercised it. If he stopped, he would say when asked, he might as well stop breathing.
Mr. Lagerfeld was responsible for so many shows, stores and events that in 2017, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, awarded him the city’s highest honor, the Medal of the City of Paris, for services to the metropolis.
Toward the end of his career, fashion was troubled by questions over whether it was demanding too much of its designers, but Mr. Lagerfeld had no truck with any complaints.
“Please don’t say I work hard,” he said to Ms. Frankel of The Independent. “Nobody is forced to do this job, and if they don’t like it they should do another one. People buy dresses to be happy, not to hear about somebody who suffered over a piece of taffeta.”
His pretensions were not to the eternal, but to the ephemeral. In the end, however, with the personal brand that was Karl Lagerfeld, he may have achieved both.
Mr. Lagerfeld with the singer Rihanna at a Fendi dinner in New York in 2015.
KARL LAGERFELD LIVES ON THROUGH HIS FINAL COLLECTION FOR FENDI, FALL 2019
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Written by: MARIA BOBILA
The Italian house's moving tribute to the designer and his 54-year-long tenure was immediately felt among showgoers.
Looks from the Fendi Fall 2019 collection.
Outside of the Fendi runway show on Thursday in Milan was the usual crowd of bottlenecking lines, loiterers and a group of anti-fur protesters, but inside was a whole different story. As soon as guests entered the venue, the Italian house's tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld and his 54-year-long tenure as creative director was immediately felt: Above the catwalk's entrance was his handwritten signature in lights; at every seat was a touching tribute card that commemorates his death; and show notes came with sketches of Lagerfeld's final collection for Fendi.
It's no secret that Lagerfeld was not only incredibly prolific, but also a master of his craft. The Fall 2019 collection introduced new takes on some of Fendi's design signatures, including the newly relaunched Baguette bag, which is currently undergoing a large push from the luxury house with an aim to recapture its nostalgic magic. This season, the handbag is updated in an embossed pillow patent faux leather and a multi-strap utility harness — both of which you'll surely see all over Instagram sooner rather than later.
While plenty of street style stars wore their best Fendi logomania from seasons last to the show, they'll need to switch gears come fall: Lagerfeld revived his curling "Karligraphy" double-F monogram, which appears on everything from stockings and socks to turtleneck bodysuits, shirts and fur coats.
What Lagerfeld does best is balance modernity with refinement: Tailored garments were strong-shouldered and nipped in at the waist. Dresses were adorned with large bows in the back, and outerwear boasted laser-cut leather or zipper embellishments. As many tributes from figures throughout the industry can attest, Lagerfeld's design genius will not soon be forgotten.
The runway finale was emotional to say the least. David Bowie's "Heroes" played as models (some who appeared to be on the verge of tears) made their last lap across the catwalk and the crowd gave a standing ovation for creative partner Silvia Venturini Fendi. After, the room went dark and a video featured a not-too-long-ago Lagerfeld sketching his first-ever design all the way from 1965, showing that at Fendi, his memory will always live on.
See Fendi's Fall 2019 collection in full in the gallery below.
Summer is coming, what to wear
38 Bathing Suits You 100% Need For Your Next Vacation
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Written by: Abby Kass
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26. A string bikini – sometimes simple is the best way to go. Wear it alone or throw on a fun coverup to complete the look!
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Promiising review: "Hell yeah! Finally a body-hugging bathing suit that is true to size and fits over my big butt! Suit is cheeky, but in a sexy way. It fits perfectly! My boyfriend loves this suit, and the baby pink color is adorable. The material is good, and is comparable with my Victoria's Secret bathing suits that cost me $80. I'm planning to buy this in another color! :-)" —Lauren
27. A halter one that'll keep you far from the shallow—the shallow end that is. You'll want to dive right in wearing this baby.
28. A strappy binkini to help you seas the day on your trip.
Promising review: "If I could leave more than 5 stars for this swimsuit, I WOULD!!!! I want to scream from the rooftops about how amazing the fit and feel of this beautiful set are. I put this on and immediately felt like a million dollars. The top boasts padded cups and adjustable everything, making it fit well no matter your size. I generally have a hard time staying in bikini cups, and I was able to tighten the back AND sides of this suit for a perfect fit. Well-made, well-loved, and I will wear this suit to EVERY beach and pool party from now on!!" —Annie Hinz
Get it from Amazon for $16.90+ (available in sizes M-3X and in four colors).
Promising review: "This is such a cute suit! It's unique and fashionable. I was a little worried about the white being sheer, but the fabric is actually thick and durable and provides great coverage. I’ve received so many complements." —Nicole Soukup
Get it from Amazon for $28.99 (available in sizes S-2X and in yellow/white, grey, and brown).
31. A deep-v one piece with enough stretch you can wear it before, during, and after your pregnancy. Now that's something I can get behind.
Promising review: "By far the best thing I've gotten off Amazon. I normally don't buy clothes off the internet because I never know if what I'm buying is actually what I'll get. This totally exceeded my expectations!! Fits so well and made with really good material. It's better than any bathing suit I've bought in a store!" —Amazon Customer
Get it from Amazon for $10.99+ (available in sizes S–3X and in nine colors and styles).
Get it from Amazon for $18.99 (available in sizes XS-XL and in four colors).
Get it from ELOQUII for $119.95 (available in sizes 12-28).
34. A floral print off-the-shoulder bikini that doesn't need to grow on you. You'll be in love with it as soon as it arrives at your door!
Get it from Amazon for $17.99+ (available in sizes S-XL and in eight colors and styles).
Promising review: "I was very nervous to buy this product as I have had some bad experiences with clothing online. But the price and the customer pictures were too much to pass up. I am so glad I purchased!! It fit well, and it is super cute! It's not top of the line quality but a far better product than I expected for the price. It might be an issue for someone who is busty as it doesn't have any support. Otherwise, I would highly recommend it, and I can't wait to take it out to the beach!" —Megan Nicole
35. A nautical swimsuit dress more than 2,000 people have given five-star reviews, so you know it has to be great.
Get it from Amazon for $29.99 (available in sizes 6–22 and12 colors and styles).
Promising review: "I love this bathing suit! I'm tall and curvy, and let me tell you this suit really makes me feel very sexy. It's hard to find a bathing suit in stores because they always turn out too short, but this fits. I can't wait to wear it out to the beach! I feel confident." —W.
Get it from Swimsuits For All for $86.40 (originally $108; available in sizes 4-18).
37. A peplum push up bikini because you shouldn't waist your time wearing suits from years ago that you don't feel comfortable in anymore.
Get it from Amazon for $26.99 (available in sizes S-3X and in five colors and patterns).
"Promising review: "I love this bathing suit. I am not one to show too much skin, so I was looking for a new bathing suit I would feel comfortable in while in Hawaii. The bottoms are cute little high rise shorts that fit nicely. The top has a fun flowy look that allows me to feel comfortable but look cute at the same time. It also was a nice top to just wear while walking along the beach and shops. I definitely recommend this for those looking to stay comfy and not worry about showing off too much skin!" —KassyGet it from Amazon for $21.99+ (available in sizes XS-2X and in six colors and patterns)."
Promising review: "I love this bathing suit. I am not one to show too much skin, so I was looking for a new bathing suit I would feel comfortable in while in Hawaii. The bottoms are cute little high rise shorts that fit nicely. The top has a fun flowy look that allows me to feel comfortable but look cute at the same time. It also was a nice top to just wear while walking along the beach and shops. I definitely recommend this for those looking to stay comfy and not worry about showing off too much skin!" —Kassy
Get it from Amazon for $21.99+ (available in sizes XS-2X and in six colors and patterns).
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Written by: RAYMOND WONG
Mobile World Congress returned in full force with the most interesting mobile innovations we've seen in years.
Foldable phones and 5G stole the show in Barcelona. It was all but impossible to escape these two big trends at the year's largest mobile event.
As expected, Samsung and Huawei dominated MWC with phones like the Galaxy S10 and foldable Mate X. No surprise, considering these tech titans are also the two largest phone makers in the world. We were also treated to a few surprises like Microsoft's HoloLens 2.
After years of the same old, mobile is exciting once again.
Without further ado, here's Mashable's top picks of MWC 2019. As always, we'll continue to update the list throughout the show, so be sure to check back for new additions.
The biggest trends at MWC 2019 were foldable phones and 5G.
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Samsung Galaxy S10
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 family loomed large at MWC and for good reason: the S10e, S10 and S10+ check all of the boxes. Samsung’s packed more into every millimeter of the phones: larger and sharper screens, bigger batteries, faster performance, more cameras, and reverse wireless charging. Even though they were announced a few days early, the Galaxy S10's were the phones to beat at the show.
Nokia 9 PureView
While every phone seems to be going with three rear cameras this year, Nokia leapfrogged everyone with the Nokia 9 PureView's five rear cameras. Billed as the most powerful smartphone camera system ever, the Nokia 9 PureView's five cameras collects up to 60 megapixels worth of data to create stunning photos with more detail and dynamic range. Is this the camera phone that'll finally kill real cameras? Could be!
Microsoft HoloLens 2
MWC's primarily a phone show, but that doesn't mean new phones are the only gadgets to see. Case in point: Microsoft's HoloLens 2. The new mixed reality headset still isn't ready for consumers (it's designed for business and enterprise), but Microsoft's fixed many of the original's biggest flaws. HoloLens 2 is sleeker, lighter, comfier to wear, more powerful, and has a field of view that's over 2x greater than the first HoloLens. The headset's also cheaper: $3,500 compared to the original's $5,000.
Huawei Mate X
Huawei's Mate X was hands-down the best foldable phone at MWC. Compared to Samsung's Galaxy Fold, the Mate X has larger screens, a prettier design, and faster 5G connectivity. It's a gorgeous glimpse of a future where phones transform into tablets and vice versa, and the most promising device of this form factor yet. The only kicker is it'll cost you a whopping $2,600 when it launches in June. Nobody said owning the future would be cheap.
Oppo 10x optical zoom
If there's any phone maker that's obsessed with optical zoom, it's Oppo. The Chinese tech giant stunned MWC attendees a few years ago with a 5x optical zoom camera system and this year the company returned to show off a 10x lossless optical zoom technology. We tried it and it definitely lets you zoom much closer to subject with greater clarity. The crazy zoom tech still needs polish, but even so this kind of mobile photography innovation deserves recognition.
5G was everywhere at MWC, but most 5G networks and devices won't be ready until 2020.
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Huawei MateBook X Pro (2019)
One of the best laptops of 2018 is even better this year. Besides unveiling the Mate X foldable phone, Huawei also refreshed the MateBook X Pro. The second-gen Windows 10 laptop is still as thin and light as before and the keyboard, trackpad, pop-up webcam, and touchscreen as lovely as well, but inside is all new. With faster Intel 8th-gen processors, more powerful NVIDIA graphics, and new ways to quickly transfer files over from a Huawei phone with a tap on the palm rest, the revamped MateBook X Pro could once again be one of the best laptops of the year.
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G
5G phones were everywhere at MWC, but the best one was easily Samsung's Galaxy S10 5G. With a larger 6.7-inch screen, a fourth rear camera, a massive battery, and of course 5G connectivity, the S10 5G is a beast of a phone that just screams future. The best part is it's coming out in the second quarter of the year.
LG V50 ThinQ
At a time when everyone’s launching foldable phones, LG decided to go a different route by equipping its upcoming 5G flagship, the V50 ThinQ, with a detachable screen (sold separately). It sounds gimmicky and it definitely isn’t as sexy as a foldable phone, but LG positively surprised by actually putting some effort into the secondary screen. For example, you can slide content from one screen to the other using a three-finger swipe. It's strange trick and yet it's really satisfying to do.
Sony Xperia 1
The Xperia 1 is Sony's best phone in years, but only because it doesn't look like every other phone at MWC. It doesn't have a notch or a hole-punch in its display and it doesn't have 5G or a foldable design. But it does have a 4K HDR OLED ultra-wide 21:9 display. The screen's super tall and there's three cameras on the back and, well, it's just weird enough (but not too weird) that it works.
Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G
If you thought you’ll have to fork over at least a thousand dollars for a 5G phone, think again: Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 5G is one of few 5G phones announced at MWC with a price, and an acceptable one at that: about $680. The device is a revamped version of the Mi Mix 3 and upgrades the processor from the original Snapdragon 845 chip to the more powerful Snapdragon 855.
SanDisk Extreme 1TB microSD card
You may not need it, but you'll want it: A microSD card with a whopping 1TB of space. SanDisk’s new card is the holy grail of smartphone storage, and it’s pretty fast, too. Is it overkill? Absolutely, but if you're gonna record life in 4K and fill up on mega-sized games, the memory card might be worth it. The cost of equipping your phone with so much storage? Only$450.
