After months of rumours, Gucci confirmed that it’s partnering with Adidas with the release of the brand’s autumn 2022 collection during Milan Fashion Week. On Friday, creative director Alessandro Michele unveiled “Exquisite Gucci,” a lineup that included a mix of the brand’s signature two-piece suits with puff-sleeve dresses and corsets. […]
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ted S Warren/AP/Shutterstock (10423104b) Sept. 10, 2019, detainees walk past a map of the world in a hallway of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Tacoma, Wash. during a media tour. On, U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan notified attorneys for Washington state […]
Welcome to Refinery29’s So, How Is It Really? where we take a look at all of the topics that have the internet talking. In studying them up close, we answer the question of what it’s really like to try out a trend like a catsuit, a viral product, or an […]
Last year, in my final year at Bristol University, I was diagnosed with genital herpes. I had experienced an excruciatingly painful sore on my vulva on at least one occasion – something nobody wants to have happen to them – and initially thought it was eczema but was then struck […]
I’m looking in the mirror and trying on faces. I’ve always been self-conscious, with fluctuating levels of severity – the effect of comments made about my appearance over the years which have left slow puncture wounds, still hissing decades later. It is a symptom, I guess, of our collective, commodified […]
In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into […]
The number of women under 20 being sexually assaulted after meeting offenders on dating apps has increased significantly since 2016. Women under 20 now account for 22% of female survivors who are assaulted in this way, which is up from 12% in 2015. The proportion of male survivors under 20 […]
It turns out that when Robert Pattinson said Twilight was “retro” now, he was probably right. His co-star Ashley Greene, who played Edward’s sister Alice Cullen, has just announced a nostalgic podcast all about the iconic franchise. Titled The Twilight Effect, the podcast will follow Greene and her “twi-hard” friend […]
For the past decade, the fashion industry has spewed a lot of talk about democratisation. With the age of social media and the arrival of bloggers-turned-influencers, there was no other way for the industry to stay relevant than to open up its doors. But the geographical, cultural and economic barriers […]
In Season 1 of Love of Blind, Netflix’s hit reality dating show, viewers got to see something rare for television — a Black woman being loved, accepted, and treated well. Lauren and Cameron Hamilton, who have been married for three years, had an onscreen love that seemed affectionate, passionate, respectful, […]
