This month’s issue is intentionally lighter …a pause, a breath, a moment to recentre. As we prepare for Chaud’s one-year anniversary edition in November, the team and I chose to step back and simply exhale. Life has been life-ing, as … Continue reading Editor’s Note: Grace In The Quiet Issue
When I first met Tendayi almost 20 years ago, the first thing I noticed was her unbridled joy and light. When she told me that she had cancer, I foolishly thought that it would be taken from us. Boy, was … Continue reading We Go Through It : Choosing Joy During Illness
Fall is here, ladies! You know the saying: spring forward, fall back. (For those unfamiliar with the phrase, it’s just an easy way to remember Daylight Saving Time: clocks go forward in March so we get more evenings with sunshine, … Continue reading Fall Forward: Staying On in the Off Season
Podcasts have become our modern salons; a place where ambitious minds gather, not in smoky Parisian cafés or boardrooms, but through headphones on commutes, gym runs, and quiet evenings at home. Yet in a saturated landscape of fast takes and … Continue reading The Power of Storytelling in Business: Why Acquired and Aspire with Emma Grede Are the Podcasts We Need Right Now
September always feels like a season of return: to rhythm, to routine, to the pages of the fashion issue that anchors our year. Fashion, at its core, is not just about what we wear but how we choose to present … Continue reading Editor’s Note: The Identity Beyond The Trends Issue
This September our Fashion Editor – Fashion Quirk delves deeper into fashion as an identity and how to make that work for this autumn. Continue reading The Fashion Issue: Fashion Is Your Identity
Christian Louboutin’s beauty line has long translated the house’s sex appeal ,the lacquered heel, the red sole, the theatrical silhouette into bottles that look like jewels. With Fétiche La Rose, the maison adds a distinctly carnal floral to its Fétiche collection: … Continue reading Fétiche La Rose: The Stilettoed Rose – Christian Louboutin’s New Ode to Seduction
Why strength training is the timeless trend every woman should wear Trends come and go, but one look never fades: strength. A strong body, like a little black dress, never goes out of style. Strength is more than sculpted arms … Continue reading Strong is Always in Season
Somewhere between the endless scroll of TikTok, the bite-sized hot takes on Twitter/X, and the rapid-fire carousel of Instagram Reels, we forgot what it meant to sit down and watch something. Not skim, not scroll, not swipe away after five … Continue reading Back to Long Form: Reclaiming the Joy of Intentional Entertainment
Hip-hop has always been more than music. It’s a culture, a philosophy, and at its most compelling – a classroom. To listen closely to certain rappers is to recognise a lexicon shaped not only by lived experience but also by … Continue reading Rhymes and Reads: The Unspoken Bond Between Hip-Hop and Literature
The 21st century promised us more individuality than ever. The internet, social media, and the so-called democratisation of culture were meant to flatten hierarchies of taste. Everyone, theoretically, could be a tastemaker, a micro-influencer, a unique voice in the endless … Continue reading The Death of Individual Thought: How Groupthink and Trend Culture Are Shaping Our Minds
In a world where technology promises shortcuts for everything, meals included it’s easy to forget that cooking has always been one of humanity’s most thoughtful and creative acts. Artificial intelligence has become a helpful kitchen companion: plug in the leftover … Continue reading The Joy of Thinking for Ourselves: Why We Still Need Recipe Books in the Age of AI
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