Your Skin Is Beyond Looks: Unlearning Beauty Standards
We are more than epidermis, dermis and subcutis: our skin is the fine line between us and the outside, what contains us, what protects us—and what reveals us. And it's more than a trend.
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A TIME BEFORE STREAMING – WHEN HIPHOP MIXTAPES RULED THE STREETS
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time before Tiktok and paid klicks on Spotify made a song a bonifide hit. A time when hiphop artists had to rely on the support of DJ‘s including them on their mixtapes to get their music on the streets. The mixtape was already the medium of choice, […]
What makes Bridgerton so visually appealing?
Escapism describes the longing for an imaginary or possible better reality and thus the escape or avoidance of the real world and its difficulties. It is a desire that is not unknown to some of us in recent weeks because the current world situation makes us quite strive for something beautiful and retreating. Shows and […]
THE SECRET LIFE OF PIGEONS
Meet your new oncologist: A soft round body, warm-blooded with no teeth. Sipping some water with a beak that functions like a straw. Wobbling off in a green-gray, purple coat carrying roughly 10.000 feathers. While in many myths and legends highly respected, pigeons are less welcome on cobblestone and asphalt. Pigeon comes from the Latin […]
‘Comedy Queen’: A Coming-of-Age Story that Made Us Laugh & Cry at the Berlinale Film Festival
'Comedy Queen' has earned the Crystal Bear for Best Film in the Berlinale, 2022. The coming-of-age story made us laugh, cry, and feel tenderly awkward.
TEENAGE ANGST ON TV – FROM ”BEVERLY HILLS 90210“ TO “EUPHORIA“
SPOILER WARNING: I can’t take any blame for spoiling ”Beverly Hills, 90210”, because it premiered over thirty years ago. But I won’t spoil anything ”Euphoria”-related. Maybe just a little. ”I’ll stick to my needleAnd my favorite waste of timeBoth spineless and sublimeSince I was born I started to decayNow nothing ever ever goes my way” […]
IS FESTIVAL FASHION CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?
The act of taking. Festivals are a playground for expression but also cultural appropriation and theft are being redrawn. Unique speaks up for environmental Justice and is part of “Total Ethics Fashion” – working for a fashion system that upholds total ethics, by prioritizing the life of all animals, humans and non-human, and the planet. Her politics revolve […]
Buckle up: What’s Happening this Spring in Berlin
The season has started: days are longer, brighter, and more hectic. Find here some art, music and festival events that are happening now (spring 2022) in Berlin.
Are Full Look Policies The Death Of Personal Style?
Which It-pieces are currently on the radar of fashion fans? In 2021, for example, Prada’s “Cleo” made its grand entrance, and in 2020 it was Bottega Veneta’s “Jodie” that was seen dangling from the hands of influencers in a wide variety of colors. Some of them even have the potential to become bag icons. We’re […]
RHYTHM AND POETRY – DEF POETRY JAM
It’s not the official definition, but it’s quite a coincidence that the word “rap“ could be short for “rhythm and poetry.“ But hopefully now after almost 40 years since the Hiphop culture was born in the South Bronx, most people might be aware, that rap is poetry (Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Price for heaven’s […]
