Death is everywhere in beauty right now

16 May

If we want to predict the next big trends, we should look inside a casket. The return of gothic fashion, the renewed popularity of vampires in media, and our growing obsession with longevity all suggest that death is never far from our minds. Recently, though, death seems to have become a defining feature of the beauty world beyond the trend cycles of gothic make-up or deathly niche fragrances: it now exists as an aesthetic, a mood, and a mode of contemporary beauty. One obvious place to start is the increasingly widespread use of GLP-1 medication and the return of the ultra-skinny body. While we are all still debating whether it is right, or helpful, to comment on women’s bodies, it is...

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24 Feb

‘I can’t even be bothered to masturbate’: Ozempic and

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Beauty, Featured

‘I can’t even be bothered to masturbate’: Ozempic and

The size zero culture of the 00s has made a terrible comeback. Representation of mid- and plus-size models during fashion month has been falling season after season, weight-loss drugs like Ozempic have become widespread, and celebrities and influencers who once built followings within the body-positive community are now debuting radically thinner physiques. Much has been written about this return to thinness, but one aspect which has been less explored is the impact on our sex lives. Sexual freedom holds power to disrupt the status quo, encouraging us to love our bodies, seek pleasure, and forgo the repetitive rhythms of capitalism. The pressure to pursue thinness is often diametrically opposed to fully embodying and pursuing desire. In this new erotic-symbolic order, bodies...

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3 Dec

The death of BeReal | Dazed

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Beauty, Featured

The variety of day by day users on BeReal has plummeted since its peak in September 2022 – but how did things go so fallacious for the ‘anti-Instagram’ app? In 2020, an app called BeReal arrived on the scene, billing itself because the anti-Instagram. It aligned itself closely with the cultural zeitgeist, answering the growing call for ‘relatable’ content that had emerged out of anxieties about highly artificial and curated online content. The premise is as follows: the app sends a push notification to all its users at a random time every day, instructing them to “be real”. Then, they've a two-minute window to take an image using the app’s dual camera feature...

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24 Mar

Designer Katie Gallagher’s Death Is Deemed a Homicide

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Fashion, Featured

Designer Katie Gallagher’s Death Is Deemed a Homicide

The death of the independent Latest York-based designer Kathryn “Katie” Gallagher has been ruled a homicide. No arrests have been made and the investigation stays ongoing, in accordance with officials on the Latest York Police Department. The Latest York City chief medical expert’s office determined that the cause was because of “acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, and ethanol.” The 35-year-old had been found on July 24 in her Lower East Side apartment on Eldridge Street. Shortly before 9 p.m. on July 24, NYPD responded to a 911 call and located the designer unconscious and unresponsive on a bed in a bedroom, in accordance with the police report that was filed last summer. There have been no signs of trauma....

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