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  • Call Her a Mean Girl: Alex Cooper's Employees Have Spoken

    Another girlboss downfall? A new investigation into Alex Cooper's Unwell Network raises uncomfortable questions about the workplace behind the female empowerment brand. If your company is called Unwell, maybe your workplace shouldn't be too.

  • Hey Meta, It's Kylie: What the Starfire Glasses Say About Where We're Headed

    Meta isn't just selling AI glasses anymore.. We used to buy products celebrities endorsed. Now we're buying the illusion of a relationship with them. Kylie Jenner's new Meta collaboration might be the clearest sign yet of where consumer technology is headed.

  • Your Fault: London and Our Collective Obsession With Forbidden Love

    Red flags have officially become a genre.
    Your Fault: London is the latest reminder that the more forbidden, messy and morally questionable a romance is, the more impossible it becomes to stop watching.

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  • From Shame to Strategy: How Nepo Babies Rebranded Privilege

    From Shame to Strategy: How Nepo Babies Rebranded Privilege

    Being called a “Nepo Baby” once carried real cultural weight, a public naming of the hidden systems of privilege shaping Hollywood and the media industry. But somewhere between memes, magazine taxonomies, and ironic self-awareness, the accusation lost its edge.

  • Vier Männer in einem Musikstudio. Einer sitzt am Mischpult, während die anderen drei beobachten. Ein Mann raucht und trägt eine weiße Jacke, andere trägt eine schwarze T-Shirt mit Löwenmotiv und Sonnenbrille, einer trägt ein schwarzes T-Shirt mit Comic-Design.

    When Veganism Stopped Being Sexy: Why Everyone’s Suddenly Posting Meat Again

    For many vegans, telling someone they don’t eat animals now sometimes draws a strange look, a raised eyebrow, as if they’ve committed a social faux pas.

  • Frida Kahlo Would Have Hated Being an Icon: How rebellion became a brand aesthetic

    Frida Kahlo Would Have Hated Being an Icon: How rebellion became a brand aesthetic

    There is a particular irony in the way Frida Kahlo exists in the world today. Her face, crowned with flowers, and her iconic brows, stares out from tote bags, T-shirts, mugs, and phone cases. Frida Kahlo did not paint to be admired. She painted to survive.

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  • SAMPAGNE STUDIO DIARIES

    Photography by Jannis Wetzel

  • HELENA ZENGEL

    Photography by Annika Yanura

  • Eine Frau in einem schwarzen Spitzenoutfit sitzt auf einem Bordstein in der Stadt.

    OFF- DUTY MUSE

    Photography by Annika Yanura