The Beauty Slowdown Has Come for Indie Retailers
Credo Beauty, Goop, and Thirteen Lune are among the smaller, independent beauty retailers responding to US market headwinds. [...]
Meet India’s New ‘It Girls’
Fashion brands like Dior, Ralph Lauren and Jimmy Choo are cosying up to a new generation of actresses, socialites and aristocrats who capture the zeitgeist in India’s rapidly growing luxury market. [...]
How to Work With Creators and Their Communities on TikTok
As the ‘experts on the platform’, content creators on TikTok offer brands a critical means of access to the subcultures and communities that the entertainment platform typifies. BoF’s latest white paper, in partnership with TikTok, shares insights on the best practices to engage with and empower creators and communities on [...]
What does the US election mean for Palestine?
There are a lot of ways in which the Democratic parties are legitimately “the lesser of two evils”, most significantly on reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ rights. But it’s harder to make that case when it comes to foreign policy, and particularly the question of Palestine. Even the most terrible situation [...]
Scientists say aliens might be living near Uranus
Uranus holds many mysteries – that’s why scientists are so enthusiastic about probing it in the future. But a new study suggests that the planet’s moons might also harbour some secrets of their own. Specifically, Miranda, one of Uranus’ five major moons (there’s 28 in total), recently surprised researchers with [...]
Moo Deng, Moo-ve over: meet Haggis, the new hippo du jour
Move over, Moo Deng – there’s a new baby pygmy hippo in town. Yesterday (November 4), Edinburgh Zoo shared a post on X announcing the birth of a pygmy calf named Haggis. “Moo Deng? Who deng? Introducing … Haggis,” the account wrote. “Otto and Gloria have welcomed an ADORABLE pygmy hippo [...]
Young New Yorkers share their hopes, dreams and fears for the election
This past weekend in New York perfectly encapsulated the city’s duality: sooky yet beautiful (AKA fun hell). There were Halloween parades and plenty of wholesome moments during the New York City Marathon. Still, there was also almost concerningly good weather and a tense pre-election shift in the air. Today, Americans [...]
This photo book celebrates the legacy of Black Europeans
In the opening pages of Afropean: Notes From Black Europe (2020), writer and photographer Johny Pitts introduces the reader to the term that underscores his writing on the lives of the Black community in Europe. According to Pitts, the word “Afropean” creates a space where “Blackness was taking part in shaping [...]
Sex workers are warning us about Project 2025 – we all need to listen
On today’s internet, porn is just a click away. It’s now so easy to get our hands on sexual content that we can forget how hard it once was to look at anything explicit. Watching porn used to be taboo – illegal, even. It was only after 1969 that the [...]
‘Winter arcs’ are bringing summer body pressures to the colder months
As I write this, someone out there may be staring at themselves in the mirror, about to shave their head to mark a time period where they’ll turn “excuses into gains”. Someone else is waking up to a 5.30am alarm and headed to the gym, determined to “emerge a new [...]