Everything is not what it seems in this month’s Vogue Italia magazine cover. Not pictured behind the featured blue ocean abyss lies the source of over 100 years of environmental destruction. As summer comes to a close and autumn arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, it brings with it a sense...
Sony Music's attempted purchase of up-and-coming rival label AWAL has signalled a dangerous time for musicians’ rights. Are UK artists doomed? ‘I know it seems like I’m very loud about this,’ Taylor Swift said in an interview with Billboard. ‘But it’s because someone has to be.’ Swift, who signed her...
Apple believes health data gathered from our iPhones, such as sleep patterns and typing behaviour, may help to identify underlying mental health conditions or cognitive decline. We’ve all experienced that dystopian moment when a targeted phone ad pops up for an item you were just talking about. But this is...
By next year, the luxury parent company behind brands such as Balenciaga, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent will have officially phased out the use of fur altogether. Over the past few years, almost every top designer - from Chanel to Prada - has shed animal fur from their collections. The...
Citizens will be voting on whether to legalize same-sex marriage this Sunday. If approved, it will be a huge step forward for a nation which has straggled behind its European neighbours. In most eastern European countries, same-sex marriage remains illegal. However, on the western side of the continent, nations have been...
Fuelled by social media and changing attitudes towards masculinity, the beauty industry is shaking off some of its most deep-rooted stereotypes, creating and marketing products specifically for men. The beauty landscape has undergone radical changes in recent years. The once-rigid distinctions between traditional gender identities are steadily becoming blurrier, and...
According to England’s updated travel policy, being considered ‘fully vaccinated’ and exempt from quarantine isn’t as simple as having been double jabbed. What was proposed as ‘a new simplified system’ that would make international travel ‘easier’ is now causing global outrage for being xenophobic. As the new travel rules were unveiled,...
Exploring the idea of technology entering a symbiotic relationship with nature, design graduate Ilja Schamle has built a cloud server powered by tomato vines. If it had the potential to knock digits off your electricity bill, would you take up gardening? An Eindhoven design graduate named Ilja Schamle has long wanted...
Somewhere floating in the Pacific is a collection of plastic so large, experts can only estimate its size - an incomprehensible mass of 1.6 million km2. Unless you’ve been ignoring the state of the planet, don’t have a Netflix account (or access to somebody else’s), and haven’t been graced by...
Luxury fashion brand Balenciaga has unveiled a collaboration with Fortnite, which includes both physical and digital versions of branded clothing. Is this the future of luxury marketing? Fortnite has been around for over four years, but still remains a commercial juggernaut that experiments with innovative marketing strategies, whether it be...
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