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24 Oct

Clara Amfo Meets Anabela Chan | The Extra Mile

The Extra Mile
The Extra Mile The Extra Mile Ever since launching her eponymous brand nearly a decade ago, Anabela Chan’s aim has been to make jewellery in a more ethical and eco-conscious way. “I desired to create beautiful, red-carpet worthy high quality jewellery using laboratory-grown gemstones, relatively than mined gemstones,” she tells Clara Amfo in the most recent episode of BMW and British Vogue’s The Extra Mile series. “Lots of people thought I used to be crazy on the time.” Fast-forward to today, and Chan can be now working to include “sky diamonds”, comprised of carbon dioxide taken from the atmosphere, into her designs. “For me, that's where the thrill is,” the jewellery designer says. “There isn't any end to what is feasible with science...
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24 Sep

Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska Meets With World Leaders

Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska Meets With World Leaders
UKRAINIAN BRAVERY: In Latest York for the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska met with the U.N.’s Secretary-General António Guterres, Prime Minister of Great Britain Liz Truss, France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron and the U.N.’s Population Fund executive director Natalia Kanem. Zelenska reportedly praised U.N. officials for including the situation in Ukraine on this yr’s report on children in armed conflicts, “as it'll ensure proper monitoring by the U.N. system of crimes against children committed day by day by the Russian occupiers in our country.” As of last month, greater than one-third of Ukrainian children, about 2.2 million, had been forced to depart their homes, with some having to relocate multiple times, in keeping with humanitarian...
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21 Sep

Clara Amfo Meets Haeckels | The Extra Mile |

Clara Amfo Meets Haeckels | The Extra Mile |
First launched 10 years ago, clean beauty brand Haeckels is decided to provide skincare in a more responsible way. “The following step of the sweetness industry is taking sustainability off of the shopper and just presenting an answer,” Charlie Vickery, the brand’s managing director, tells Clara Amfo in the newest episode of BMW and British Vogue’s The Extra Mile series. After making its name by creating products using handpicked seaweed off the coast of Margate, Haeckels is now starting to show to other materials too. “It’s not nearly seaweed anymore: we use mushrooms, we’re pioneering other materials,” Vickery continues. “The seaweed that now we have is a natural resource – over-harvesting can obviously have a detrimental impact on the environment.” The wonder...
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