Men’s fashion is embracing embroidery and handcrafted textiles that were once viewed as old-fashioned or feminine, with a clutch of modern Indian brands poised to benefit from the catwalk and celeb-driven trend. Embroidery is a historic mainstay of traditional clothing in Asia or the Middle East, as well as Western haute couture , but it is increasingly
In certain corners of the internet recently, people have been debating why “women can’t stop reading fairy porn”. These discussions centre around the fantasy romance genre, also known as romantasy, which has exploded in both popularity and sales. Onyx Storm , Rebecca Yarros’s third book in The Empyrean series, was the fastest-selling adult novel in
The International Academy of the Order of Saint Lazarus ( Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis ) has published the eighth volume of its academic journal called Acta Historiae Sancti Lazari Ordinis . Edited by Charles Savona-Ventura, Horatio C.R. Vella and Michael Ross, and published in English, the volume contains a varied collection of interesting
If there’s one material that defines modern life more than any other, it’s plastic: present from the moment we’re born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil beneath our feet and the air we breathe. Hard as it is to imagine, it wasn’t always thus − and doesn’t have to remain this way, argues Judith Enck in her new book, The Problem with
