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22 Oct

Lesbian perfumes and gelato hairbrushes: These are July’s best

Lesbian perfumes and gelato hairbrushes: These are July’s best
ORIBE CAMPAIGNGallery / 14 images Back in 2023, Dazed wrote about a wave of sickly sweet, dessert-inspired beauty products. Three years on, the sugar rush shows no signs of slowing down – and this summer it's ice cream that's dominating beauty moodboards.  From Abel's vanilla fragrance Double Scoop to LOEWE celebrating its new Pistachio Candle with a London ice cream bar takeover, and La Bonne Brosse's Salty Gelato hairbrush collection, brands are finding fresh ways to draw from the dessert.  Meanwhile, beauty brand Oribe is looking to the gym rather than the freezer for inspiration. Its new Hair Alchemy Bond Building Elixir campaign features female bodybuilders and uses strength training to explore rebuilding, in a concept that mirrors their product’s strengthening benefits. Jouissance is...
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15 Sep

The sapphic gaze: How Berlin’s lesbian renaissance is reclaiming

The sapphic gaze: How Berlin’s lesbian renaissance is reclaiming
Berlin’s lesbian bar, (lip) service22 Images “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female”, feminist film critic Laura Mulvey wrote in her now legendary articulation of the ‘male gaze’, back in 1975. It’s a pervasive truth, one that has fostered a constant state of female self-surveillance under the regime of compulsive heterosexuality. But what happens when this process is queered, transforming women from passive visual objects into active agents of desire? Today, the answer can be found within the lesbian* community, where a queered gaze is redefining beauty and desire for a new generation. While the community isn’t immune to dominant beauty standards, its rejection of normative gender roles gives rise to alternative...
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