If you haven’t already heard: Sitting is pretty terrible for you. According to research, sitting for more than eight hours a day without physical activity is harmful for your body and studies have compared extended sitting to smoking. And yet, for most of us working in corporate Britain, our lives […]
LOWELL – MARCH 17: Children carry “stop the hate” and “Asian lives matter” as they walk around Clemente Park in Lowell, Mass. during a vigil held for the victims of the shooting spree in Atlanta at Clemente Park Lowell, MA on March 17, 2021. Eight people including six Asian women […]
If you’re the type of lockdown dresser who’s embraced inside shoes and outdoor house slippers, UGG’s just-released collaboration with London-based designer Molly Goddard is for you. The three-style collection, which first debuted at the designer’s London Fashion Week presentation in September, includes platform clogs — which come in red, green, […]
Looking for the “bright side” of a pandemic that has killed more than half a million Americans and 2.6 million people worldwide can feel… Pollyanna-ish, to say the least. Still, as we pass the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic and the vaccine rollout continues […]
A decade ago, luxury fashion brands didn’t even acknowledge the existence of sales, let alone participate in the resale industry; brands would rather burn excess goods before selling them at consignment prices. But thanks to the rising popularity of secondhand shopping in the last few years, as well as consumer […]
When it comes to shopping, many of us have become used to finding what we want at the click of a finger and having it delivered if not instantaneously, then within a few working days. How much thought is given to the life of the item? Where it came from […]
Aries season always seems to bring out the fire in all of us (but that might be my Aries sun talking). The weather is turning warmer, and there’s a special electricity in the air as the new astrological year begins once again. Sure, we set resolutions (or not) in January. […]
How do you know you belong? For my eight-year-old self, it was simple: Did I have friends who sat with me at lunch? Was there a Power Ranger who looked like me? Did I get to eat at McDonald’s on my birthday? Gratefully, thankfully, those juvenile hallmarks of belonging were […]
If I had to pick a song as the soundtrack for this past year, it would definitely be Beyoncé’s “Me, Myself and I.” Not because of the stress of pandemic dating, but because I’m “all I got in the end/ That’s what I found out.” Staying at home surrounded by […]
On the evening of Saturday 13th March, hundreds gathered on Clapham Common to mourn and express our collective rage at the killing of yet another woman at the hands of a man. As night began to fall, police officers turned violent, unprovokedly pushing and arresting women and gender non-conforming people in […]
