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Tokyo Fashion Week has a sprawl problem. A significant number of the city’s homegrown designers have taken to showing off-schedule, with more than 10 brands holding runway shows and presentations on seemingly random days throughout January and February.For these designers, going off-schedule is a matter of getting in front of the money before it’s gone. Post-Paris, buyers’ budgets...

Members of the CCC network facing police blockade while demanding dignified wages in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Clean Clothes CampaignNGOs say that funders now prefer program-specific funding over general year-round support. “Across the sector, core funding has become harder to access, with most money now tied to specific projects,” says Shruti Singh, director of Fashion Revolution India. “That means...

It’s not just Vietnam debating whether to allow waste to flow across borders, notes Janmark. “This is an ongoing discussion in the regulatory circuit,” he says. “But once waste is properly sorted into something we can use, it shouldn’t be classified as waste; it should be considered a raw material.”Spanish recycler Coleo is taking a different tack. It...

A family of four flees domestic abuse in the early morning; a teenage diver reckons with her mother’s pain; a renter gets to know his landlady while digitizing social workers’ files on children in crisis. These are just some of the characters in Lauren Groff’s new short story collection, Brawler, all of whom are granted a deep and...

It’s also a look we’re seeing a lot of at the moment–especially among the street-stylers and off-duty models milling around New York for fashion week, who can often be spied clutching their iPhones in a blocky boot and straight-leg jeans. The recent runways are pushing ’90s minimalism, too (it makes sense that Love Story’s Sarah Pidgeon, who plays...

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As a female millennial, I thought of little else during the year 2003 than the simmering feud between up-and-comng actress-slash-pop-stars Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff (which was, of course, linked to the fact that they both dated Aaron Carter. Were we ever so young?).The teen-queen duo’s falling out was very much giving proto-Lorde and Charli XCX—it really was...

Brunello Cucinelli’s fall collection raised the bar on what can happen “when imagination and artisanal knowledge work together, aligning to find solutions to achieve the very best,” as Cucinelli put it at a preview. It was less a tug-of-war between ingenuity and craft and more a well-rehearsed duet, “each side knowing when to take the lead and when...

I remember, with vivid clarity, every time someone has said the n-word in front of me. “What up, my n-word?” from a stranger in the street holding a blue Alcopop, circa 1999. “Why has she come dressed as a n-word?” from a former (stress on former) friend about a girl’s costume at a Halloween party in Dalston. “N-word,...

I’m holding off on Botox for now, and I am quite the holdout. At 45 years old, I’m the last one of my friends or coworkers to give the neuromodulator a shot (pun intended), and many women get “preventative Botox” in their 20s. I’m not morally opposed to Botox, don’t get me wrong; it’s just that I’m not...