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5 Dec

TikTok’s recent ageing filter is making people cry… with

TikTok’s recent ageing filter is making people cry… with
Should you were on TikTok this summer you will likely be very accustomed to the platform’s “Aged” filter. Using AI machine learning, just like the Daring Glamour filter, the Aged filter “predicted” how users would age by adding facial expression like wrinkles, sagging skin, thinner lips and hyperpigmentation. The filter quickly racked up over 10 billion views, with the general sentiment being considered one of dismay and distress at the outcomes. “I don’t prefer it, I don’t prefer it in any respect,” Kylie Jenner said in a video where she tests out the filter. “No. No.” Other users joked they were going to start Botox and pretended to cry. While a few of these reactions were little question played up for...
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30 Nov

This perfumer discovered the scent of pure evil –

This perfumer discovered the scent of pure evil –
David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi’s brand Toskovat creates concept-based perfumes designed to evoke memories, from a Christmas-themed critique of capitalism with notes of cocaine, to a scent that reveals we're all just moths to the flame of evil The creator of Toskovat doesn’t want you to wear his perfume. Specifically, Inexcusable Evil – a scent that incorporates notes of blood, bandages and burning flowers. “I actually despise the smell,” he tells Dazed, speaking from his creative hub in Romania. David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi is the Bucharest-based nose behind this small batch perfumery that’s drawn a surge of interest amid an increase in perfumes with creative, unusual and even disturbing accords. “If we lived in a greater world, there...
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21 Nov

When Princess Diana Stopped ‘People Pleasing’

When Princess Diana Stopped ‘People Pleasing’
British Vogue presents Princess Diana’s Life in Looks with The Crown star, Elizabeth Debicki. Ahead of the discharge of Netflix’s The Crown Season 5, Elizabeth Debicki takes Vogue through Princess Diana’s 20 most memorable looks, from the infamous revenge dress to her first British Vogue cover within the ’80s featuring chandelier diamond earrings. When asked for her favourite look, Debicki opted for Diana’s blazer, jeans and cowboy boots ensemble from the Guards Polo Club in Windsor (1988): “That is what I believe we expect of when we expect of Diana within the ‘90s. The cowboy boots are incredible; we had these remade — I used to be obsessive about them. She was probably the primary Royal to ever wear a baseball...
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17 Nov

The yearbook challenge and the explanation we love watching

The yearbook challenge and the explanation we love watching
From Boyhood and the Up series to TBT posts and TikTok’s yearbook challenge, there’s something compelling about watching people transform and the passage of time itself Should you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably come across the yearbook challenge. It’s when people post high-school yearbook photos of themselves and their friends after which flash forward to them in the current day, often at a marriage, ten-year and even 20-year reunion – to “Spirits” by The Strumbellas. These videos garner likes and views of their hundreds of thousands, proving just how obsessed we should not only with nostalgia and physical transformation but with the passage of time. Yearbook challenges have only recently grow to be popular on...
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