Your Guide To Healthy Living, Fitness & Wellbeing
Growing up in the Arab world, as a woman, from pre-pubescence onwards, I was often taught to view my body and desires with a sense of shame. For years, it seems the media, schools, doctors, and even friends and relatives have perpetuated the myth that my virtue is tied to my chastity, and that being […]
Gwyneth Paltrow’s diet is the most relatable it has ever been She’s the woman who introduced the world to the word “macrobiotic”, but in a live “Ask me Anything” chat with Goop’s chief content officer, Elise Loehnen, Paltrow confessed that a tumultuous 2020 has taken a toll on her eating habits. “My diet is so […]
Since emerging onto the Hollywood scene five years ago, Dakota Johnson has been a thoroughly modern sex symbol. Of course, this is due in no small part to her role as Anastasia Steele in the film adaptation of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which served as a rousing introduction to the dynamics of a […]
In November, Cara Delevingne announced that she’s joined sexual wellness and tech company Lora DiCarlo as co-owner and creative adviser. “Women have the same urges and needs as any other person yet we are ashamed to talk about how we take care of our own pleasure,” she tells Vogue. “I hope to help break down […]
In lieu of a runway show, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, Prada’s newly appointed co-creative director, streamed a digital presentation of their first joint spring 2021 collection and then sat down for a conversation during which they fielded questions that had been crowd-sourced on Instagram. In addition to speaking about their unprecedented partnership and the […]
Sleep is becoming an increasingly elusive beast. Research shows that nearly half of the UK population struggles to fall asleep at least once a month, with 36 per cent experiencing that very specific frustration at least once a week. If you’re one of them, may we suggest the “cognitive shuffle”? While it might sound like […]
Inside a splendid mansion that was once home to Napoleon’s daughter is one of the world’s most cutting-edge medical spas: Villa Stéphanie. Offering full-service diagnostics (the on-call team of specialists includes cardiologists, gastroenterologists and dentists), and astonishingly advanced treatments, visitors leave Baden-Baden the picture of good health. The spa’s renowned nine-night “The Kings Way” programme […]
I remember walking down Oxford Street on Friday 8 July 2016, joining masses of other Black people to cry, “No justice, no peace.” Only a few days after protesting again, with that same plea for humanity, I can’t help but reflect on how our vulnerability has once again been put on display, for others to […]
