Chanel Wants You To Wear Two Bags, Not One
The over-the-top spectacle that is the Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week always generates a wave of excitement. By this point, the storied house has become known for its Instagram-worthy themes and...
View Article"Winter Vagina Is Coming": The Latest Ridiculous Health Claim To Ignore
Women may once have been content with letting their private parts do their own thing from January through to December, but in 2018 the concept of the seasonal vagina has gained traction.In May, Teen...
View ArticleRebecca Traister Says Women Have Every Right To Be Angry — And Stay Angry
It’s been one year since the New York Times and New Yorker investigation into the sexual misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein unleashed the #MeToo movement and a courageous fury over the ways women are...
View ArticleI Live On A Boat In London — & It Cost Me £65,000
A Look Inside This Wild London HouseboatIn Refinery29's Sweet Digs, we take a look inside the sometimes small, sometimes spacious homes of millennial women. In today's episode, 30-year-old Alice...
View ArticleThe Repulsive Cruelty Of Trump Mocking Dr. Christine Blasey Ford At A Rally
"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified when asked her most vivid memory of being sexually assaulted by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, referring to the brain area...
View ArticleYou Shouldn’t Follow A Diet Just Because An Insta Blogger Told You To
It's almost too easy to buy things on Instagram. Between the funky vintage clothes, unique pieces of furniture, and cool workout clothes, it's hard to resist scrolling and spending. That said, there's...
View ArticleJohnny Depp's British GQ "Outlaw" Cover Is Sparking Outrage
New York magazine declared this past season the "summer of scam," cementing it by selling a white T-shirt emblazoned with the title. Then, Johnny Depp said "hold my $3,000 bottle of wine" and changed...
View ArticleWhere Are Steven Avery & Brendan Dassey Of Making A Murderer Now?
In December 2015, the 10-episode documentary series Making a Murderer hit Netflix. By then, the podcast Serial had been out for a year and downloaded millions of times, unlocking our collective thirst...
View ArticleThe Republican Women Who Still Stand By Brett Kavanaugh
Wearing "I stand with Brett" and "Women for Kavanaugh" T-shirts, a group of about 10 women cut a path through the crowd of protestors assembled in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on...
View ArticleTrump Says It's A "Scary" Time To Be A Man, Try Being A Woman
In May or June or possibly April of 2010, I propped the front door of my apartment building open with one knee and sorted through the pile of mail in the entryway. I'd just gotten home from work, the...
View ArticleLady Gaga's Latest Make-Under Proves She's Not Done Transforming Yet
No one would ever accuse Lady Gaga of being predictable. Since bursting onto the scene over 10 years ago, Stefani Germanotta has reinvented her image more times than we can count. She's a singer. She's...
View ArticleBusy Philipps Opens Up To Ellen Degeneres About Her Rape At Age 14
After revealing in an Instagram post that she was raped at age 14, Busy Philipps opened up to Ellen Degeneres about why she chose to share her experience publicly."I was so moved by [Dr. Ford’s]...
View ArticleHow To Check Your Breasts For Lumps
They’re on you all the time, but how well do you really know your breasts?If the answer is not very, then it is important to get into the habit of checking them. Breast cancer is the most common cancer...
View Article"I Live In A Mayfair Apartment For Free": 4 Women Who Don't Pay Rent
In a world where the cost of living is getting scarily higher by the day but wages aren’t… erm… quite increasing at the same rate, and the thought of getting a mortgage any time soon is a pipe dream to...
View ArticleThe Industry's Top Hairstylist Tells Us How To Get Glass Hair
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Guido Palau (@guidopalau) on Oct 2, 2018 at 6:37am PDT You'd expect the industry's most in-demand hairstylist to have a supercilious air about them, but...
View ArticleWhat I Learned At The UK’s Only NHS Insomnia Clinic
Earlier this year, I underwent five weeks of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) courtesy of the NHS at the UK’s only dedicated insomnia clinic. In the first session, which was a group session of about...
View Article22 Coats To Start Thinking About...
As the nights draw in, the mornings get nippier and we prepare for the clocks to go back, it’s time to update our wardrobes with some new outerwear. Hooray!Your coat of choice says much about how you...
View ArticleWhat A Star Is Born Gets Right About Addiction & Relationships
Warning: This story contains spoilers for the movie, A Star Is Born.If you've seen the trailer for the new movie A Star Is Born, you know that addiction and substance abuse are key to the plot. The...
View ArticleCornrows Were All Over Fashion Month — & On All The Right Models
As a Black beauty editor, I always get nervous when Fashion Month rolls around. Show after show, I hold my breath just waiting for the inevitable cultural appropriation to go down. Would Gigi Hadid...
View ArticleWhy Are Designers Still Telling Women To Dress 'Sexy?'
“You get authority from the stuff you put on the runway,” wrote Cathy Horyn in her joint review of the Maison Margiela and Saint Laurent collections at the recently-concluded Paris Fashion Week....
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