Cynthia Shange, who at the height of apartheid was the first Black woman from South Africa to compete in the Miss World ...

Miss Mexico Fátima Bosch has officially been crowned the new Miss Universe in the highly coveted 2025 beauty pageant. On Friday, November 21, the 25-year-old contestant bested 120 others for the title ...

Beauty pageants are an interesting – and very public – balancing act between womankind's degree of wholesome versus their sex appeal, a real-life judgement of whether contestants meet Mr Darcy's ...

Keira Knightley will portray a feminist campaigner in 'Misbehaviour', which traces the infamous story of the 1970 Miss World ...

For more than two decades, Mustafa Hassanali has been a defining force in Tanzania’s fashion industry, a name associated with ...

Under stage lights, hundreds of transgender women adjusted their sarees, tucked flowers into their hair, and waited to be ...

Bosch received criticism for the comment, which she made while speaking at a women's forum in El Salvador last month Tabitha Parent is a writer at PEOPLE covering entertainment and culture. She joined ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Codi High Elk was a shy teenager most comfortable caring for horses on her family’s ranch on the Cheyenne River Reservation when she threw away an application to compete in a ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for the scandal-ridden Miss Universe pageant, this is proving a big part of the problem. Opaque and subjective voting criteria have made it difficult to ...

Former beauty pageant queen Elle reflects on the unexpected lesson she carried with her long after leaving that world (and ...