How cuteness has taken over our world — and why — is a subject being explored in “Cute,” a new (and the first ever) exhibition devoted to the movement at London’s Somerset House.

Ninety-six-year-old style icon Iris Apfel has become the oldest person ever to be immortalized as a Barbie doll. The self-proclaimed “geriatric starlet” joins luminaries like Gigi Hadid, J.K ...

But cuteness has recently become a subject of serious inquiry, inspiring scientific research, academic literature—dubbed “Cute Studies”—and a recent book, “Irresistible: How Cuteness ...

Iris Apfel, who became a fashion icon known for her vast, colorful, eclectic wardrobe and was the subject of Albert Maysles’ 2014 documentary “Iris,” died Friday. She was 102. Apfel died at ...

Cute began being marketed to American adults in the 1950s, notes Isabelle Galleymore, a poet and consultant for the exhibition. American women, then newly equipped with jobs and disposable income ...