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Pop culture🇬🇧

McDonald’s Happy Meals once again feature Pokémon.

New decade, new McDonald’s and Pokémon partnership. After a two-year break, the partnership between these two pillars of contemporary pop culture has been revived: The Pokèmon Company and the American fast food chain have in fact announced the return of Pokémon Happy Meals, complete with the iconic yellow cardboard boxes bearing a picture of Pikachu from their earlier, more than ten-year-old partnership. The brand-new partnership … Continue reading McDonald’s Happy Meals once again feature Pokémon.

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BEAUTY 🇬🇧

Here are five things you should understand about red lipstick.

Mothers, grandmothers, and daughters. Every generation of women has been constrained by a thin red lipstick veil for millennia. Red lipstick was revered by many ladies, including men and non-binary people, and from the past from Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, to Marilyn Monroe. Red is still seen as a necessary component of beauty today. No one has ever been able to unleash love and hatred like … Continue reading Here are five things you should understand about red lipstick.

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FASHION🇬🇧, MOODBOARD TRENDS

The best street style from Copenhagen Fashion Week SS23

Photos by Jeremy French In the streets of the Danish capital you can discover the trendiest street style inspirations: unstructured denim, wide-legged or baggy trousers, matching suits made of unusual fabrics, sorbet colors, but also bold and intense colors on impactful hairstyles. Copenhagen Fashion Week saw the presentation of the SS23 collections, with shows and events rewriting the minimalism typically associated with Nordic design to … Continue reading The best street style from Copenhagen Fashion Week SS23

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FASHION🇬🇧

This is a bag as well.

The new bag from Balenciaga went viral. It is undeniable that Balenciaga has an innate, or at the very least blatant, propensity to trolling; after the release of a bag in 2017 that was nearly identical to Ikea’s shopping bag and the destruction of the most recent sneakers, it is now the turn of the trash bag displayed during the FW23 collection show. That is … Continue reading This is a bag as well.

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ASTRO

Curlycurl’s August 2022 horoscope

ILLUSTRATIONS BY MABEL CASALINI IG:@MABELMCKEY Even though summer is drawing to an end , the upcoming Leo season is full of positive energy. The month’s transits foretell a season that is physically burning and speaks of passion from every angle: starting on August 4, Mercury, the planet of communication, enters Virgo, and all thoughts miraculously acquire their own distinct meaning and a clearer course. Venus, … Continue reading Curlycurl’s August 2022 horoscope

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BEAUTY 🇬🇧

The negative effects of getting sun burned

In order to protect the health of our skin, it is crucial to avoid sunburn now that summer has (finally) arrived, as have the long-awaited August holidays. However, let’s briefly clarify. The three types of ultraviolet rays are UVA, UVB, and UVC. UVC is inhibited by the ozone layer, whereas UVB is somewhat filtered by the atmosphere and clouds and can penetrate through glass.Since UVA … Continue reading The negative effects of getting sun burned

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The evolution of fashionable technology

From Lily Rose Depp’s Y2K headphones to Asap Rocky’s kid-friendly tamagotchi What does it take for a product that seems unrelated to fashion to catch on? Maybe it’s just that them readily available on the market and has a dashing sponsor who makes them seem appealing? Technology has come a long way since the days of the economic boom, when owning a phone or TV … Continue reading The evolution of fashionable technology

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The disregard for human rights in fashion

The democratically elected government of Myanmar was overthrown by the army in a coup on February 1st, 2021, and the National League for Democracy party leaders were detained. Since then, the country’s Civil Disobedience Movement has been led by textile workers, most of whom are women, who risk their lives every day to call for the end of the dictatorship and the restoration of democracy … Continue reading The disregard for human rights in fashion

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Miss sixty is back with a Y2K vision.

On September 14, 2011, the most iconic Italian advertisement of the moment made its way into popular culture. Belen Rodriguez, dressed entirely in Miss Sixty and push-up jeans, undresses in favor of the room at Basic Instinct, earning censorship. In reality, Miss Sixty is the one brand that has been able to encapsulate the diverse scene of the 2000s, from the heroin-chic allure of Asia … Continue reading Miss sixty is back with a Y2K vision.

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