F-utility: What the Humble Belt Teaches us About Anti-fashion

For a long time, the belt was, in fact, not fashion at all, and — in a world where avant garde has had its way with most — the lonely belt sat, coiled, I’d sooner like to think, as a last ballast of purity and dwindling lamplight of ‘seriousness’. Yet, fashion and its culture has, in recent years, made so intent its feud with functionality and beauty that, it may come as no great shock, the belt’s coiled peace was to be perturbed.

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The Seen and The Unseen: Reviving the Corset

For centuries, women have been willed to stuff and rough themselves into constrictive garmentry. These constrictions, as not newly sauntered into public knowledge, align time and again with the nuances of female oppression belonging to their decade; namely, body ideals, and the expectations surrounding how a woman ought to behave, which has historically flittered just as freely.

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Less is More
Beauty

We asked medical aesthetician, skincare expert and founder of AM Aesthetics, Alexandra Mills-Haq, all about her passion for delivering natural results for clients.

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