内容摘要：Garbage is piled up at a waste collection center at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Pasang Rinzee Sherpa)

Garbage is piled up at a waste collection center at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Pasang Rinzee Sherpa)

And Sheryl Tubbs, an Idaho-based creator behind DenimFelt, which converts secondhand denim into stuffed animals and puppets, opened her Etsy shop in late 2019 as a way to supplement her husband’s income. She buys supplies like boxes, buttons and thread from Chinese sellers on Amazon and benefited from the fact that small shipments from overseas have been exempt from tariffs, under what’s known as the “.” But the Trump administration has now closed that loophole.

Prices for the supplies she buys from China are already rising. On top of that, sales dropped 50% over the past month as her customers pulled back. She will have to raise prices by a dollar or two on her items, which average about $50. But she’s also coming up with new ways to market her business like selling at a local festival and digitizing her patterns so she can sell them.“I definitely have to be more creative and come up with better ways of doing it to compete,” she said.Earlier Wednesday, the government reported that consumer spending slowed in the first three months of the year, compared with last year’s final quarter, as bad weather depressed shopping and Americans took a breather after healthy spending over the winter holidays.

in the January-March quarter as imports surged as companies sought to get ahead of Trump’s tariffs.Trump benefited in last year’s election from broad dissatisfaction among voters about the steep rise in prices that began in 2021 and that, on average, pushed prices up about 25% by the middle of last year. Grocery costs shot up nearly 30%. As a candidate, Trump said he would

Yet the president has slapped 25% duties on steel and aluminum,

, and a 10% tariff on nearly all other imports. And China, the United States’ third-largest trading partner, now faces a 145% duty on its exports.were Anne Hathaway in a Carolina Herrera dress she picked specifically for him.

“We wanted André Leon Talley to look down from heaven and scream ‘GLAMOUR,’” Hathaway said on the Vogue livestream Monday night.A glamorous night it was, and

amid a broad White House siege on DEI programs and protections that serve immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and myriad others. What does that have to do with fashion and the theme this year? Everything, in terms of Black power, ownership, heritage and, most importantly, freedom.What, exactly, was the suggested dress code? It was “Tailored for You,” inspired by Black dandyism through time, the subject of the