BY ANNACHIARA BIONDI From DIY fashion and gender-neutral jewellery to shopping on TikTok, many current fashion and retail trends are being driven by Gen Z. That same generation is also driving innovation in beauty, from product categories to marketing — as well as more fundamental ways of thinking about beauty. Eden Palmer, VP of merchandising, global brand and 3rd party at Forma Brands, speaks of a…
By Daniella Silva Simone Biles knew she was carrying a lot when she walked into the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on Tuesday. As the face of the U.S. Olympic team, she was shouldering her country’s gold medal hopes. As the greatest gymnast of all time, she was toting expectations for athletic dominance and repeated brilliance. As an outspoken advocate for…
By Doug Cartwright mindfulness This beautiful season is a great opportunity to try out some mindfulness activities. If you aren’t sure what mindfulness is, we’ll break it down for you. Basically, mindfulness is the practice of being fully present in the moment, observing your thoughts, feelings, senses, and surroundings, without judging or trying to change anything. It’s certainly a practice…
By RACHEL HAGSTROM My body shaming started in fifth grade shortly after a classmate made up a “clever” little saying about my breasts. She recruited a group of boys who all chanted for days: “Rachel’s so flat a pancake would be jealous. Flatty cakes, flatty cakes!” Good one, sister. I was 11 years old… of course I was flat. As…
Let’s clear up one common misconception from the get-go: Self-care is not synonymous with self-indulgence or being selfish. Self-care means taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy, you can be well, you can do your job, you can help and care for others, and you can do all the things you need to and want to accomplish in a day.
A child’s 18th birthday doesn’t indicate the end of your parenting. Here’s expert advice on how to gently offer help and compassion to an adult child struggling with their mental health.
There’s something about French women and how they approach beauty that makes them so undeniably cool.
By Emily Pidgeon maggie kim Knowing just two words of English but with a dogged drive for success, KOL Group Founder and CEO Maggie Kim forged an influential career in finance and asset management – a venture spanning continents that has opened her world to new possibilities, although it almost claimed her life. More than a decade before the life-changing moment…
By Women’s Agenda What would a true global agenda addressing Women Health and Gender Inequailties address? Given massive disparities in what women and girls experience internationally, it’s hard to quickly answer such a question. However, the World Health Organisation along with a number of key United Nations bodies are attempting to do so, in a series of new papers released this week, along…
BY LIANA SATENSTEIN For the record, I didn’t ask Sharon Stone to lift up her shirt on our Zoom call. And yet, there we were on a recent afternoon—her, brandishing her rock-hard abs in the living room of her Los Angeles home; me, trying to pick up my jaw off the floor in my Brooklyn apartment. “All you have to do…
