It’s a good time to be Alo Yoga. The 16-year-old brand, known for its Airbrush leggings and a wide variety of crop tops, has long been the fashionable upstart in an athleisure category dominated — and arguably invented by — Lululemon. But the retail giant is suddenly looking vulnerable. It downgraded its profit forecast in …
On the first date with my now-fiancé, Kye, I laid it all out on the table. I figured there was no use wasting his time. He had to know what he was in for. Kye could tell I was nervous, but he probably thought it was just jitters. He was handsome. Dark hair, kind eyes …
I had missed my intended train to London Victoria and was running late. The carriages were busy, but I managed to find a seat and read a few more chapters of the paperback I was enjoying. I was uncomfortable, distracted and worried about my choice of outfit. Would I be overdressed? I should have opted …
The wide, hooped gowns worn by women in the 18th-century court of Queen Charlotte were not just the style of the time, but a regal requirement. But in the pleasure gardens and coffee houses, a fashion revolution was under way. Women and men were rejecting the formal grand costumes of the Georgian aristocracy in favour …
Back in the heady days of 2012, my partner and I were newly in love. We had recently returned from a month in Thailand, life was a beach and when we got back we couldn’t believe the horrifying pace of city life. “Forget this,” we thought. “We’re beach people.” Our budget meant we couldn’t quite …
It was the end of the day at school. Teachers sat around the hall, behind tables, waiting to help us choose our A-levels. At the table marked “Art” sat a teacher with a beard and a checked shirt. He’d never taught me. I sat down and told him I wanted to be an artist. He …
It was a balmy night in Paris. Earlier that evening my single friend and I had dressed up for one last night on the town. A magical Parisian sendoff was glittering ahead of us and we shone back, relishing our youth and the freedom of travel. At a little bar on Rue Mouffetard I found …
It wasn’t long ago that the global business community was transfixed by the metaverse and web3, the buzzy hypothesis that the next generation of the internet would give rise to a collective, persistent, virtual reality built on a blockchain-based foundation. Now, another kind of reality is settling in: many of the high-flying concepts and companies …
I remember the first time I laid eyes on Chris. We were students at the Australian National University in Canberra. I was attending an editorial meeting for the student newspaper at Chifley Library and I looked up in time to see a cute guy I hadn’t met before walk into the room. He had floppy …
It was a relief to finally be safe in Brussels with my old friend Mumek after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. We spent a lot of time at the headquarters of the Bund – a Jewish socialist political organisation founded in Lithuania with a strong presence in Poland – where we found many familiar …
In most of the children’s books I browsed through as a last-born child, there was an address in southern England handwritten in the inside cover. I vaguely knew my parents and two siblings lived there at some point, and I grew up surrounded by minor monuments to that life in England: Dad’s records, the faux-Victorian …
2023 will undoubtedly be a year full of surprises for fashion lovers who wish to spice up their wardrobes. The comeback of the small bag was foretold by the SS23 catwalks and fashion shows, which is wonderful news for those who adored 90s mini bags and have been waiting for their return for years. What …
Princess of Wales Kate Middleton wore an enviable accessory to her latest dinner party: the Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara, a favorite of the late Princess Diana. The piece features teardrop-shaped pearls and plenty of diamonds. It’s very pretty and, one would imagine, kinda heavy. The tiara was made, according to The Daily Mail, “by …
It sounds like a lie to say I wasn’t looking for a partner when I joined a dating and friendship site called Pink Sofa. This was in the pre-swipe era of 2010, when you wrote a whole profile and uploaded the text with a picture of yourself, stating if you were looking for friends, hook-ups …
In July 2007, I visited a shaman by accident. My wife had an appointment with a therapist called Wendell and, unable to attend, she offered it to me. As I ascended the stairs in Notting Hill, I mused on the fact that I had once worked as a film editor at a company on Wendell …
Lola and I were in our early 20s, and we’d been together for about three months. It had become routine for us to crisscross Melbourne, travelling between Lola’s place in Northcote in the inner north and to my base in Bayside in the southern suburbs. To see each other we needed to sit for stupid …
The day I first came across a harp is a memory stored in all my senses. The sound of the strings, the pleasing curve of the neck, the smell of the May blossom that was dancing on the breeze. It was love at first sight, that is for sure. In contrast to the vivid colour …
I was visiting New York from Australia on a six-month tourist visa. Because my love life had an expiration date, it gave me a grace period, liberated from logic, to explore my sexuality. I could date women, without consequence, commitment or coming out. Carianne was my first date with a woman. We met in 2017. …
I grew up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s during the Troubles. For my parents, and just about every other adult, daily life was punctuated with news of bomb attacks, incendiary devices, kidnappings, kneecappings and murders, all motivated in one way or another by a border. Plenty of children’s lives were blighted, too, but I …
Bella Hadid is sharing her excitement following the commotion caused by her latest performance during Paris Fashion Week, being part of an iconic moment, after she was spray-painted a white Coperni dress onto her body. The supermodel, who recently made her acting debut, praised the Coperni team for including her in the unique fashion moment, …