Category: Trends
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Modesty Meets Modernity in Abaya Fashion
Strollers at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Mall or Mamsha Beach can witness fashion in the making. Sprinkled among women wearing the flowing traditional black abayas are fledgling fashionistas who blend heritage with Gen-Z style. On an April day, one young woman wears a sandstorm yellow silk abaya with a chocolate brown Loewe bag, a teddy bear…
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Paris’s Anti-Café Cafés
The phrase “Parisian Café” conjures up a movie stereotype: Europeans whiling away their afternoon outdoors, drinking an espresso and chatting with a cigarette in hand. That image has been immortalized in La La Land, Before Sunset and Amélie. In fact, we have become so acquainted with associating cafés to Paris that in the thumbnail for…
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MILFS on the Move: A Berlin Car-Sharing Prank That Continues to Gain Traction
On a bright, warm Thursday afternoon in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, Bessel Park was crowded with residents strolling in the park. Cars crept up the cobblestone street, among them, a large, gray van with a s logo prominently displaying the obscene acronym “MILFS”. A wave of vandalism has damaged countless vehicles from the car-sharing company MILES…
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Soccer jerseys: Functional and Fashionable
In a viral TikTok video, Zulan, an Argentine DJ and music producer, turned Clairo’s “4ever” into a pulsating house beat for a dancing and sweaty crowd in Los Angeles. She created the mix “with the LA show in mind,” noted the caption. For this LA show, Zulan donned Los Angeles Football Club’s “simple yet utterly…
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Over Spending Comes Easy
By Savannah Prager December 1, 2022 On her way to class in Greenwich Village, NYU journalism student Elle Liu used to stop in a coffee shop for her daily $8 Matcha latte. Now, on a semester abroad in Prague, she has a daily hyper-fixation: espresso tonics, at half the cost of her lattes. Yet, her…
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