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Birkenstock & Opening Ceremony’s New Collab Is A Surrealist Take On Everyone’s Favourite Clog

Birkenstock & Opening Ceremony’s New Collab Is A Surrealist Take On Everyone’s Favourite Clog

Birkenstock and Opening Ceremony are known for coming up with creative spins on cult-favourite shoes. See: The glittery Arizona sandals and the neon-hued Zurich sandals that resulted when the two brands collaborated in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Yesterday (on Monday 15th November), the two companies teamed up again for a new […]

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Dissed On Succession

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Dissed On Succession

Warning! Spoilers for Succession season three, episode five, “Retired Janitors of Idaho”, are ahead. We’re firmly in the “full fucking beast” throes of season three of Succession and by now we can all admit – nay, embrace publicly! – that something in the HBO show whips up a little sadistic thrill in […]

5 Plus-Size Models On Self-Love, Tokenism & Industry Icons

5 Plus-Size Models On Self-Love, Tokenism & Industry Icons

Your Instagram feed may be more diverse than ever, thanks to the host of plus-size babes using their platforms to foster a celebratory and inclusive online community, but the fashion world still has a long way to go. From brands claiming that a lack of size inclusivity in their collections […]

27 Oddly Specific Advent Calendars You’ll Want This Christmas Season

27 Oddly Specific Advent Calendars You’ll Want This Christmas Season

Sure, the days might be drawing closer, the chill might be setting in and the dreaded Super Cold may be on the rampage, but this is bound to cheer you up. We’ve got a little something up our premature-holiday-gifting sleeves — well, technically, 27 little-somethings that are made up of […]

Glossier’s Gift Sets Feature Festive Cult-Favourites & New Drops

Glossier’s Gift Sets Feature Festive Cult-Favourites & New Drops

’Tis the season for festive and glittery beauty gift sets — and we’re especially excited about anything that arrives in Glossier’s signature bold packaging and polished with a special wintertime shine. The stalwart beauty brand behind can’t-live-without products like Boy Brow and Cloud Paint has brought its A-game with a trifecta […]

“You’re My Favourite Person”: When Love Turns Toxic For Those With BPD

Warning: This article mentions suicide. Throughout my life I have become fixated on specific people. In hindsight I see them as regular people but at the time I idealised them. The intensity of my emotions and the inability to control them always bothered me. It wasn’t until I got diagnosed […]

This Weather Calculator Predicts The Chance Of Rain On Your Wedding Day

It’s no secret that what we want from our wedding day is changing. Thanks in no small part to the pandemic, inquiries for “runaway weddings” have trebled at one UK firm. Meanwhile, intimate micro-weddings are more in vogue than ever before. Planning any kind of wedding is a huge task […]

Instagram Wants To Stop Your Endless Scrolling – Here’s How The App Plans To Help

Unless you’re blessed with Olympian levels of self-control, you probably feel as though you spend too much time on Instagram – at least sometimes, anyway. Endless scrolling is an easy trap to fall into, so it’s great to hear that the app is testing a “take a break” feature that […]

The Real Reason You Avoid Looking At Your Credit Card Statement

The Real Reason You Avoid Looking At Your Credit Card Statement

Logging into to your credit card app to see the charges you’ve racked up (like the four delicious but overpriced cocktails from brunch last Saturday), or signing into your account to find that after you’ve paid your bills, there’s not a lot of money left over, isn’t the greatest feeling. […]

The Banning Of George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue Speaks To A Tiring History Of Black Censorship

The Banning Of George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue Speaks To A Tiring History Of Black Censorship

George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, a coming-of-age essay collection about growing up Black and queer in New Jersey, was reportedly removed from four high school libraries in North Kansas City, Missouri last week. The decision followed an objection from Jay Richmond, president of the Northland Parent Association, a […]