Dear Fashion Brands: Why Aren’t You on TikTok?

Charli D’Amelio is a new kind of social media marvel in that she’s, at the heart of it, a teenager from Connecticut who only joined TikTok in May 2019 with a video of her lip-syncing next to a friend. Nineteen months later, D’Amelio has a digital fanbase roughly the size […]

The ‘Bridgerton’ Costumes Feature Regency Era Silhouettes With 20th Century Chanel and Dior Influences

Do you love sweeping period dramas and romances, but sometimes find the oeuvre a touch too subdued and chaste, especially compared to your usual premium cable or streaming content fare? (Like, enough with the repressed feelings and lingering stares, already.) Well, Netflix’s “Bridgerton” … Continue reading

“We’re Collectively Traumatized:” Laverne Cox On Promising Young Woman And Surviving 2020

“We’re Collectively Traumatized:” Laverne Cox On Promising Young Woman And Surviving 2020

Promising Young Woman, Laverne Cox’s stunning new film, is a lot of things— a feminist manifesto, a bubble-gum hued revenge fantasy, a twisted dark comedy. But mostly, it’s a movie about the ways in which the world fails women. It’s about how trauma festers and haunts, living in our bodies […]

Breonna Taylor’s Mother Wrote An Open Letter To Joe Biden — Here’s Why

Breonna Taylor’s Mother Wrote An Open Letter To Joe Biden — Here’s Why

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2020/10/17: Breonna Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer speaks during the National State of Emergency Get Out the Vote Rally organized by UntilFreedom in New York City. About 200 people attended the rally among them the Families of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake who encourage New Yorkers […]

Celebrate Dressing Up For Christmas — Even With Nowhere To Go

Celebrate Dressing Up For Christmas — Even With Nowhere To Go

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a dressing-up box. As a child with a penchant for playing dress-up, it was a pretty standard affair: a white wooden box filled with striped T-shirts for piratical purposes, and twinkly black nylon and pointed hats for witchy occasions. More princess-style […]

The Great Conjunction Is Almost Here, & It Will Change Everything

The Great Conjunction Is Almost Here, & It Will Change Everything

The galactic core area of the Milky Way over Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta with the pairing of giant planets from summer 2020. Jupiter is the bright object at centre, with Saturn dimmer to the left (east) of Jupiter. In 2020 the two planets were close together in the summer […]