Bella Hadid: ‘Home is within our own hearts’

3 Nov

Ôrəbella SOLARSGallery / 6 images Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed Bella Hadid make some major life changes. It’s not just that her hair is blonde now; there’s been an energy shift. In 2024, she announced that she was moving to Texas and stepping back from the modelling industry to focus on her health. It’s also the same year she launched ‘Ôrəbella, an alcohol-free brand redefining fragrance as a skin-loving ritual. Since then, she has deeply immersed herself in the Western equestrian world, taken on selective modelling projects and continued to expand ‘Ôrəbella’s alchemy-revealing product lineup. Today, Hadid introduced SOLARS Mists, a sun-inspired duo of scents drawn from water and born from light. The new limited-edition scents join ‘Ôrəbella’s Body...

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31 Oct

Witches give advice on how to reconnect with your

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Witches give advice on how to reconnect with your

Visit the Dutch town of Oudewater and you can step onto the oversized scales of its historical witches’ weighing house. From the 16th century onwards, accused witches travelled there to be weighed and, if heavy enough, leave with a certificate proclaiming their innocence. Witches could fly, it was believed, so the logic went that they must be supernaturally light Amid the witch hunts that swept through Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries, women’s bodies became evidence; weighing was among the milder tests. Other women were stripped, shaved and pricked in search of a witch’s mark. Centuries later, the policing and scrutiny of women’s bodies remains familiar. “Until governments and religions stop policing women’s bodies, how can...

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29 Oct

New book Fat Swim explores the pain and pleasure

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New book Fat Swim explores the pain and pleasure

More often than I’d like, I’ll spend a day hunched over my laptop, ignoring my aching back or my neck, making little Rice Krispies noises when I turn it. I’ll eat standing instead of sitting. I’ll spend hours and hours tuned into a series of smaller and bigger screens instead of my senses. And then, something will happen. I’ll remember I can go for a walk. As I flex my legs and my arms in the sun, and feel a breeze, and see magnolia blossoms and dog shit and row homes and Squid Facts Hotline stickers on traffic posts, I’ll realise: Oh, I have a body. Oh, there’s the world. “We have four million books that are like, ‘where is the...

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23 Oct

Dermorexia: Is our obsession with skincare becoming a disorder?

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Dermorexia: Is our obsession with skincare becoming a disorder?

While interviewing young women for her book Pixel Flesh, author Ellen Atlanta began to notice that many of them were displaying signs of an obsessive fixation with their skincare. She met women who timed the application of their products to the millisecond, who wouldn’t go outside during sunlight hours, who taped up their parents’ car windows to avoid UV rays. These young women would become distressed by the idea of not having access to their skincare regimen. “The more I spoke to women the more I realised that the preoccupations and obsessions that we are used to pathologising with food and exercise are now applied to the world of beauty,” says Atlanta. While beauty has always been prized, recently it seems...

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