Right now, there are few booming industries due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the economic downturn looming and unemployment rates soaring, many of us have tightened our spending over the past few months. However, green shoots are appearing in one field: global sex technology. Read more: Are You Having Enough Sex? Lockdowns and social distancing […]
In lieu of a runway show, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, Prada’s newly appointed co-creative director, streamed a digital presentation of their first joint spring 2021 collection and then sat down for a conversation during which they fielded questions that had been crowd-sourced on Instagram. In addition to speaking about their unprecedented partnership and the […]
Leave it to the star of this week’s #WorkoutWednesday, Zoe-Maia from Maia Well Co Pilates, to help with that lockdown-induced back pain you’ve been suffering. For many, a year on, the lack of commute and increased time spent at less-than-perfect desk set-ups has left us hunched and suffering stiffness, soreness and pain in our backs. […]
If you’re using astrology to get a grip on your wellness routine and better know yourself, then look to your moon sign — it’s long since been associated with human emotion. In ancient times, philosophers would put fluctuating mental states down to the wavering phases of the lunar cycle. In the 13th century, the outdated […]
Every autumn it’s the same. My sprightly post-summer mood evaporates, and a rather stubborn cloud of despair appears in its place. Ah, hello again, seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder, often referred to using the painfully apt acronym SAD, affects one in three people in the UK, and statistics indicate that women are 40 per […]
“Been breastfeedin’ in compression socks for the past 3 weeks, hbu?” wrote Ilana Glazer alongside a recent Instagram photo of her nursing her newborn baby. In both her art and her real life, the False Positive star has made it her mission to demisogynise the pregnancy experience—and in her first few weeks as a mum, […]
At one point, every celebrity on earth was into cupping. There was Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga and Victoria Beckham – most of whom were doing it as far back as the early Noughties – as well as a whole host of famous athletes, including Anthony Joshua. Even Kim Kardashian tried it to treat […]
The Spanish call it síndrome de la cabaña (cabin syndrome). The French prefer syndrome de l’escargo (snail syndrome). In English, we favour the less poetic ‘re-entry syndrome’, or ‘reverse culture shock’. Whatever the name, feeling anxious as we emerge from our shells or cabins to re-enter the Covid-19 world is very real. At first, this […]
