One fashion week ends, another begins—what editors know as “fashion month” is actually a misnomer reserved for Western cities (New York, London, Paris, Milan)—but include the entire world and it’s ...

The femme fatale has been one of film’s most fascinating archetypes since the earliest days of the medium. Sexy, self-assured, and quite often murderous, she seduces and destroys with abandon. Her ...

If you've ever read a hardboiled detective novel, or seen a film noir, the first scene of SundanceTV's new southern crime thriller Hap & Leonard will seem very, very familiar. "Here comes trouble," ...

Folk horror and the modern world converged during the 1970s and produced perhaps cinema's most varied selection of femme fatales to date. From Britt Ekland's impassioned seduction of Sergeant Howie in ...

She keeps to the shadows, but is impossible to miss. She's smart, tough, and beautiful, with a sultry, entrancing vibe that men are unable to resist. But watch out—she’s also dangerous. She's the ...

Three new exhibitions explore how the femme fatale in art reflects evolving anxieties, writes Cath Pound. The figure of the femme fatale is one of the defining literary and artistic motifs of the 19th ...