March

Get The #MermaidCore Look With These Fashion And Beauty Pieces

By avi maxwel / in beauty, fashion, MermaidCore, pieces /

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MAY 08: Halle Bailey attends the World Premiere of Disney’s “The Little … (+) Mermaid” on May 08, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

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Oceanic influences always make their way into summer attire, but Summer 2023 is officially the moment for #MermaidCore thanks to the release of the live-action The Little Mermaids starring Halle Bailey, along with other summer mermaid content like Dua Lipa as a Barbie mermaid in the upcoming Barbie movie and the animated film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.

So what is #MermaidCore, you may find yourself asking? Essentially it is anything that a mermaid would find incredibly fashionable, in or out of the water. Think cool tones, shimmery finishes, pearlescent materials, and plenty of seashells.

So ready to hop on the #MermaidCore trend? Here are 10 pieces that will have you looking like the star of the sea.

Mermade Hair 1.25” OG Waver | $63

Mermade Hair

First thing’s first, you are going to need mermaid-worthy hair, and what is a better tool to achieve such a look than the aptly-named Mermade Hair waver tool? This hairstyling tool allows you to create those beachy waves with ease, and it comes with

March

what we’re coveting right now

By avi maxwel / in coveting /

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Adanola

After teaming up with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on an edit earlier this summer, British activewear brand Adanola has now tapped LA-based influencer Stephanie Shepherd for a capsule collection. Featuring sports bras, leggings, shorts and tees, as well as some autumn-appropriate, quilted, kimono-inspired jackets, this is a great edit to check out for your off-duty winter wardrobe.

J. Lindeberg

J. Lindeberg – the brand known for fusing sports with fashion – has just launched its autumn/winter 2023 collection, and there are plenty of colourful, sporty-inspired silhouettes to embrace for the new season. We love this green knitted skirt (which also comes in a more neutral white) for its tennis-inspired feel. Team with ballet pumps and a simple white vest.

Mango

Although the weather might be (finally) showing off as the summer draws to a close, autumn is just around the corner, and that means there are plenty of exciting new drops to look out for this week. This includes Mango’s new workwear capsule, which sits under the store’s premium collection, Selection – and has plenty of exciting autumnal offerings including classic shirts, pleated skirts and tailored

March

‘We are not about to run out’

By avi maxwel / in Run /

Popular resale sites, like Depop and Poshmark, provide simple ways for individuals to sell secondhand clothing online.

Rolling Stone reports that many users on these platforms are resellers who source their clothing from thrift stores, rather than their own closets. For years, there has been controversy online about this practice and whether it’s taking clothing resources away from those who need them more — but some say this conversation may be distracting from the bigger problems with the fashion industry.

What are resellers doing?

Rolling Stone explains that resellers buy inexpensive clothing from secondhand stores, then sell it on Depop at a markup.

To make sure their merchandise will sell, they look for items that are in good condition and may be coming back into style. They may also clean and repair their finds and style them with trendy outfits to show off the pieces in listing photos.

Some crafty thrifters even alter the clothing they buy. They may redesign a long dress into a short one, cut up a large garment into fabric for a smaller one, or add embellishments like ribbons and rhinestones. This approach is popular not only among sellers but also among individual buyers who

March

Why Emily Blunt’s turnip dress is part of a fashion tradition

By avi maxwel / in Blunts, dress, Emily, fashion, part, tradition, turnip /

Editor’s Note: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.

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Turnips, radishes, potatoes… This is not the beginning of Emily Blunt’s shopping list, but rather the items that appeared all over her latest red carpet outfit. Attending the Paris movie premiere of “The Fall Guy,” in which she stars, Blunt looked the picture of health — literally — in a Loewe Fall-Winter 2024 shirt and ballooning trousers smattered with root vegetables.

And while radishes rarely get a turn on the red carpet, fashion has been committed to making sure we get our greens lately. In 2022, Danish brand Ganni launched a “pop-up grow market” to celebrate their naturally dyed denim collaboration with Levi’s; where shoppers could peruse fresh beetroot alongside a mineral-dyed maxi dress of the same hue. For Spring-Summer 2020, New York based label Collina Strada not only printed tomatoes on trousers but replicated an entire farmer’s market stall for their NYFW runway — featuring donated produce attendees were encouraged to take home post-catwalk. And at Loewe, creative director Jonathon Anderson didn’t stop at Blunt’s potato-splattered

March

Style icks: What would you censor in the fashion world?

By avi maxwel / in censor, fashion, icks, style, world /

As North Korea censor a pair of jeans, the Euronews Culture team ask themselves: What would we want to blur out of fashion?

When you think of 74-year-old British gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, who helms the wholesome ITV gardening show Love Your Garden, censorship is probably not the first word that springs to mind.

Still, that hasn’t deterred North Korea’s state television Central TV, which has censored a 2010 episode of the BBC gardening programme Alan Titchmarsh’s Garden Secrets (which does sound a bit filthy, come to think of it).

The reason? His jeans.

They blurred out presenter Titchmarsh’s trousers, as jeans are seen as a symbol of western imperialism in the secretive state – and are therefore banned.

According to Seoul-based NK News, North Korea’s rules prohibiting jeans have been in place since the 1990s. Then leader Kim Jong-il declared denim trousers to be a symbol of Western – and specifically American – imperialism, which had no place in a socialist state keen on cracking down on Western culture.

It is not clear how the regime acquired the rights to Garden Secrets to air the show, but the green-fingered presenter’s denim-clad lallies are now barred.

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