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Iris Van Herpen debuts ‘living dress’ at Paris Couture Week
The Dutch designer’s latest collection Sympoiesis featured a glowing ‘live dress’ grown with 125 million bioluminescent algae, blurring the lines between nature, fashion, and technology. The world of couture has a long-standing reputation for pushing the boundaries of what can be done with fashion. From incorporating unique sewing techniques, creating breathtaking structures, and incorporating novel materials, each new fashion week sees designers deliver on innovative creations that impress and allure. Dutch designer...
the return of drake + ICE agents in disguise
filling you in on everything you missed What’s gooooood, family! 👋 It’s that time of week again - a lovely Tuesday in London, I should add - and we’re back with another fantastic (and thicc) newsletter touching on all the news, insights, research, and stories from the last week you won’t want to miss. From learning to relinquish control in life, why ICE agents should be forced to show their faces, how...
Gen Z is radically transforming the events space
Welcome to the latest edition of The Gen Zer. This week’s newsletter is an exploration of how the events sector is being transformed by a new generation with new and novel demands. From niche interests to activity-based meet ups, affordable alternatives and silent events… the scene may never be the same (and that’s a good thing!). Over the last five years, event organisers went from being forced to move their operations...
the rise of ‘soft biohacking’ + how gen z fell out of love with instagram
do you really want to live forever? and ever? and ever? Hello everyone and welcome back to another newsletter! It’s been a warm start to the week in London 🥵 and although the heat has made activating our brain cells a little more challenging, we’re here to serve up all the latest news in culture, tech, style, beauty, the environment and more. From ‘poverty porn’ to plummeting media literacy rates, what Gen...
Why one third of Tuvalu’s population hopes to relocate to Australia
An unprecedented visa scheme between Tuvalu and Australia is garnering a huge response. Signed in 2023, the ‘neighbourly’ agreement allows Tuvaluans to live, work, and study in Australia – though most are moving against their will. Three years ago at the world’s largest annual climate meeting COP27, Tuvalu’s foreign minister Simon Kofe announced that the country was making moves to preserve its culture in the metaverse. Standing behind a podium on...
How festival organisers are preparing for overcrowding this summer
With Glastonbury about to kick off – and dozens of other major event on the agenda for this summer – festival organisers across the UK have made crowd control measures their top priority. Festival season has arrived. It brings a series of some of the most exciting musical lineups and fun-filled weekends of the summer, and with it, hundreds of thousands of people who flock to once-empty fields to dance,...
beyond labubu + why there’s porn on spotify now
you want it? you got it Hey everyone! ☀️ Feels like so long since I last wrote to you. Dare I say… I missed you? Last week the thred team attended Cannes Lions Festival in the south of France. We met some incredible people from all over the world, sat in on some insightful talks – Kai Cenat, Amelia Dimoldenberg, and Charlie Puth among them – and even found a bit of time...
Dutch government returns historical artworks looted from Nigeria
With countries increasingly reflecting on their colonial history, museums face a serious question: is it moral to keep historical artefacts that were taken in bad faith? More than 130 years after they were stolen by British troops, 119 Benin Bronzes have been repatriated by the Dutch government to their country of origin: Nigeria. Around the world, those campaigning for museums to return artifacts stolen during war and colonial conquests have celebrated...
What is the ‘Global March to Gaza’?
Thousands of activists from across the globe are participating in The Global March to Gaza with the goal of pressuring world leaders to end Israel’s genocidal siege on the Strip. Around the world, support for Israel’s military siege on Gaza is tanking. Though millions of people have started speaking out, activists are springing into action to demand world leaders to stop the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe – even if it means travelling...
i think this is what they call imposter syndrome
you know it's real when you are who you think you are I’d say I always wanted to be a writer, but for the sake of honesty, I should admit that I initially hoped my life would look more like a Britney Spears music video – well choreographed, a little raunchy, and obviously, covered head to toe in diamonds. Alas, I was only six years old at...
