Prior to the pandemic, fashion’s elite flocked to the four major fashion cities — New York, London, Paris, and Milan — twice a year to see new designer collections. A major part of those Fashion Month voyages — one in February-March and another in September-October — was street style, which, […]
A couple of years ago, because I write about books, I was asked to fill out a questionnaire for a literary website, and one of the questions I was asked was: “What is the greatest misconception about book critics and criticism?” My answer, basically, was that I didn’t know that […]
In all the conversations I’ve had with astrologers, psychics, and tarot readers, I’ve learned that the most common questions asked of them centre around love and relationships: When will I find my next partner? When should I start swiping on Hinge? Is this person the one? While nothing can truly […]
The new Netflix anthology series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, takes a closer look at the 2013 disappearance of Canadian college student Elisa Lam. Unfortunately, Lam’s bizarre vanishing is not unique to Los Angeles’s most notorious hotel. The nightmarish history of the Cecil Hotel, which first opened […]
In 2008 we bailed out the banks. We now face the biggest financial crisis in a generation, with record youth unemployment. Who will bail out young people? R29 and Vice are joining the National Union of Students to call for all students to be offered rent rebates and asking the […]
“Old” Millennials on TikTok had a rough last week when they found out that it’s no longer cool to part your hair on the side, use the laugh-cry emoji, or wear skinny jeans. I am a Millennial who partakes in all three of these Gen Z faux-pas. But, I’m also […]
The truth about the pandemic is unavoidable: We are stuck. Many of us have been stuck, quite literally, in our homes, others are functionally stuck, limited to commuting to work and coming right home to avoid contact with too many people. I’ve sacrificed seeing friends, family, and loved ones, and […]
“What’s his star sign?” is the question that gets fired off in my WhatsApp group chat whenever a new love interest enters my life. Next come the ‘Pisces woman, Aries man compatibility’ internet searches which, inevitably, tell me he isn’t The One and alas, my search begins again. Now, some […]
According to a 2018 study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, film criticism is a field overwhelmingly dominated by (surprise, surprise) white men. Not anymore. In Refinery29’s new series, our woman movie critic will give fresh consideration to the movies we love, hate, or love to hate. It’s time for […]
You probably don’t need reminding that British employees are overworked, underpaid and struggling to keep up with living costs – so much so that the number of ‘working poor’ (those with a job yet unable to make ends meet) has spiked to 18% since the 1990s. This may explain why […]
