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21 Jan

Why I turned to traditional Chinese medicine to heal

Why I turned to traditional Chinese medicine to heal
After being prescribed steroid creams and immunosuppressants by GPs to no avail, Günseli Yalcinkaya decided to reframe her understanding of her body and health My first run-in with psoriasis was during my university finals, after I was 20. It’s not particularly surprising because stress is a major trigger for those with an underlying tendency towards the condition. (Together with cold weather, hot weather, dry weather, smoking, drinking, infections corresponding to strep throat and even certain medications.) However it wasn’t until last 12 months (after I was 26) that I had my first proper psoriasis flare-up. Appearing a few weeks after my second Covid vaccination – a incontrovertible fact that’s in a roundabout way correlated,...
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8 Apr

Alexis Stone Turned Into Jean Paul Gaultier for Campaign

Alexis Stone Turned Into Jean Paul Gaultier for Campaign
DOUBLE TAKE: If you happen to think Jean Paul Gaultier is springing across a Parisian street holding a baguette aloft in his brand’s latest ready-to-wear campaign, look again. It’s actually British drag performer and makeup artist Alexis Stone who donned looks out of the “Dress Like Jean Paul” spring collection, inspired by the French designer’s Breton top, also generally known as a marinière, and kilt. Revealed on Wednesday on Instagram, the photographs were shot by London-based photographer Grant-James Thomas in Paris’ Les Halles neighborhood. In a single image, Stone-as-Gaultier wore a kilt-and-mariniere ensemble that nods to one among the best-known portraits of the French couturier, a 1994 image shot by photographer Jean-Marie Périer for the French edition of Elle that saw him don...
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