Category: Think Pieces
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Spring is a time for renewal. Maybe you’ve cleaned out pieces from your wardrobe that still have the tags on, or you’ve gone as far to deep clean your makeup brushes. There’s an appeal to spring that makes us want to reinvent ourselves, change up the habits we’ve taken on over the past months and…
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Over the past couple of years, Africa’s fashion scene has become a must-watch for fashion aficionados. Empowered youth influenced by a DIY attitude to fashion, music and arts have taken it upon themselves to create opportunities that, for so long, have not been available for them.
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Yves Saint Laurent once said, “fashion fades, but style is eternal”, and those words couldn’t be more accurate. In today’s microwave society, we’ve all fallen victim to buying the popular item at the time (yellow Off-White™ belt owners to the front please) only to wear it once and send it to the back of our…
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Awkward Black girls, alt Black girls, emo Black girls and everything in between. Stand up!
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The effect Peaky Blinders has had on the vast majority of the UK population is staggering. The highly anticipated Season 6 premiere of the show garnered 3.8 million viewers, but fans were preparing for its comeback far before.
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When talking about best-dressed rappers, people often quickly bring up Kanye West, ASAP Rocky, or even Tyler, the Creator. And why not? Kanye West is grandfathered into both the music and fashion space, we all know what ASAP Rocky can do with a fit, and Tyler, the Creator is really coming into his own. But…
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The global fashion industry has been touting its sustainability credentials for years now. Products from every category have been marketed as carbon positive, eco-friendly or, dare I say, vegan. Whole business models are built on the back of the umbrella term ‘sustainability’. There was plenty of talks, pledges, and supposed planning around fashion’s sustainability on…
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Standing in front of the wardrobe on a Monday morning, flustered because an appropriate outfit doesn’t appear from the piles and piles of items, a question often comes to mind, “why do I even have to wear clothes?” You would be forgiven for asking. Getting dressed is often more of a chore than TikTok fashion…
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ou might not think of teeth as a big deal. You brush them twice a day and that’s enough, right? Well, in the fashion world, these exposed bones can be used as more than just a vehicle to get your body the nutrients it needs to survive. We have a strange relationship with our gnashers.
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For most of us, we experience fashion through the lens of consumers. We look at the fits, the Instagram posts, and the trends list, waiting to figure out our next purchase. But there is another side of fashion, one that we seldom discuss; the business of fashion. No, this is not an article about how…