We were told that success was all about networking, meaning go to the event, collect the business cards, build your LinkedIn, grow your following, and essentially reach out to people you've never met. Networking stopped meaning "building relationships" and started meaning "collecting people." We became obsessed with access, access to founders, investors, creators, editors, celebrities and opportunities. As though careers were built by knowing more people rather than knowing

Doomscrolling can take its toll on my mental health at the best of times, but when I’m hungover on a Sunday and still in bed—doing my best to forget about the rounds of tequila that definitely weren’t needed the previous night—the last thing I want to see is my ex’s new girlfriend, or indeed the woman he’s now seeing, pop up as a "Person You May Know" on my timeline. The algorithm: a harsh reminder that I wasn’t chosen, that his new girlfriend is about ten years younger than

The New York-based model and stylist isn't interested in chasing trends. Instead, she's building a world where clothes tell stories, getting dressed becomes a daily ritual, and personal style matters more than the algorithm. Fashion has never moved faster. Every week there's a new "core," another aesthetic to replicate and another celebrity wardrobe dissected into shopping links before most people have even had their morning coffee. Trends are no longer seasonal; they're hour

A few days ago, more than 261,000 Californians received news that would change the course of their year. Hundreds of millions of dollars in medical debt had simply... disappeared. The debt had been erased through a donation from Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel and model Miranda Kerr in partnership with @UndueMedDebt, wiping out more than $550 million in medical bills for families across California. It was an extraordinary act of generosity that will undoubtedly transform tho

I was sitting in my dermatologist’s office the other week, playing the role of "supportive best friend" for a girl who was just there to get a tiny mole removed. It was all very model-off-duty chic until the doctor finished the procedure and started scanning her face like an interior designer looking for a load-bearing wall to demolish. "We could sharpen that jawline," he noted, gesturing to her chin as if he were sketching on a napkin. "And those crow’s feet? Honestly, a lit

Everyone has a different vision of what their 20s will look like. Some imagine being married, some imagine owning a house, and others dream of working abroad or going to college. Ever since we were kids, we’ve been preparing for our 20s. It’s like working toward an end goal, and all we wanted were the solutions or answers. But little did we know that our 20s wouldn’t be about finding the answers at all. If anything, our 20s raise even more questions. It’s like we knew more wh

"Shall we both get a landline?" I hurriedly asked my friend as we settled into our allocated seats in the cinema, waiting for the trailers to start. We’d just been revelling in the idea of putting our phones on flight mode for the next two hours, uninterrupted by buzzes, notifications, and reminders that the outside world was waiting for us to respond. "It's the only place I feel like I can do that nowadays," I reflected. I, like almost everyone, it seems, at the moment, fall

The Love Story That Is Breaking The Internet's Cynicism: For the better part of a decade, modern dating has felt like a crisis of faith. Not faith in love itself, but faith in people, faith that someone would stay, faith that intentions would match actions, faith that the person texting "good morning" actually wanted something serious... Somewhere between dating apps, situationships, bread-crumbing, ghosting, orbiting, soft-launches, hard-launches, and every other term we've

Everyone loves an overnight success story; One video. One song. One trend. One moment that makes millions of people stop scrolling and ask, Who is she? For Darina, that moment arrived with an instinctive dance to Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head. What began as a playful piece of content quickly became one of the internet's defining trends of the summer. Thousands recreated it, the song found a new generation of listeners, and suddenly, her name was everywhere. But

For years, speed was the measure of success. We optimised our mornings, tracked our productivity, consumed content in fragments, and learned to equate busyness with meaning. Efficiency became a virtue, multitasking a necessity, and being constantly reachable an unspoken social contract. The faster we moved, the more it seemed we were keeping up; with work, with culture, with each other. And yet, something is shifting. A few weeks ago, I spent ten days in a small village in ce

Designers are working full-time jobs, sewing through the night, and grieving between fittings while producing some of the most compelling fashion you haven't seen yet. Before fashion weeks had a calendar most industries revolve around, before they had front rows and hierarchies of who sits where, there were women. In communist Romania, there were croitorese, the Romanian word for seamstresses and tailors, mostly women, working quietly in apartments and back rooms, cutting fab

There are makeup artists, and then there are people who use makeup as a tool for world-building. Russian multidisciplinary artist Vlada Krukovskaya belongs firmly in the latter category. What begins as makeup often evolves into something much larger: a complete character constructed through wigs, styling, photography, color, fantasy, and performance. Drawing inspiration from horror films, music, vampires, underground aesthetics, and the constant desire to reinvent herself, Vl

I don't think women are taught to live in their bodies, contrary I think we're taught to look at them. From a surprisingly young age, our bodies become something to observe, evaluate, improve, and manage. Long before social media, and even before wellness culture turned self-optimisation into a full-time job, many girls learn that appearance matters. Not necessarily because anyone explicitly tells them so, but because they grow up absorbing it from the world around them. I ce

In an industry often obsessed with prestige, perfection, and white tablecloth performance, Auguste is doing something different. Hidden in the heart of London Fields, the restaurant founded by Dylan Walters and Michael Bagnall feels less like a traditional dining destination and more like an ongoing creative experiment; one built on Abruzzese cuisine, community, nostalgia, theatre, and a healthy disregard for convention. Inspired by Edward Hopper's Soir Bleu, the philosophy o

A few weeks ago, I went on a date with a guy I had been admiring from afar for quite some time, someone I had built up into a sort of icon in my mind. At first glance, he was genuinely charming. Our conversation flowed effortlessly, and our perspectives on life and core values aligned almost seamlessly. But as the minutes ticked by at the table, a detail caught my eye that made it impossible for the magic to last: his real-life style had absolutely nothing to do with the high