Monthly Archives: July 2023

Major publications including the New York Times discovered in July this year a trend that has been going on for quite a while on TikTok – content creators impersonating non playable characters (NPCs), that is those secondary characters you see … Continue reading →

Let's continue the straw hat thread that we started last Sunday with a look at other types of vintage straw hats, this time by Robert Dudley. As you may remember from a previous post, New York milliner Robert Dudley was … Continue reading →

There are items in the history of fashion that, throughout the decades, have turned for commentators into the proverbial albatross hanging from the neck of the ancient mariner – they are a curse rather than a pleasure to write about. … Continue reading →

So far, the most prominent lawsuits in the fashion industry revolved around copyright infringements that often involved two powerful brands or fashion houses, but we have also seen litigations between a powerful maison and a digital artist. Yet things are … Continue reading →

In some of the images illustrating yesterday's post there were fragments of shells embedded in the sand. Let’s move from that effect, but think about glistening and radiant gold and metallic accents integrated in other materials, from fabrics to hard … Continue reading →

Florida recently experienced record-breaking ocean temperatures, with the surface temperature around the Florida Keys reaching 38.43°C – potentially a global record for ocean heat. The high temperatures are unusual for this time of year, with normal temperatures ranging between 23°C … Continue reading →

Earlier on in this scorching July on planet Earth, scientists revealed that there is an ultra-hot exoplanet in the universe acting like a mirror. The European Space Agency (ESA)'s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission discovered the ultra-hot LTT 9779 b, … Continue reading →

Almost exactly nine years ago, on July 23rd, 2014, Pet Shop Boys with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers performed the world premiere of "A Man From The Future", their musical tribute to computer pioneer and Enigma codebreaker … Continue reading →

Are you stuck in town, working away even on weekends while the sweltering heat leaves your brain feeling like it's melting? Well, why not cool down and escape to a world of nostalgia by flipping through vintage magazines? In 1957 … Continue reading →

Have you ever felt cornered? Physically cornered in a confined space or metaphorically pressured without enough options to address a problem or make a decision? Cornered by anxieties, by fears; cornered by a mental paralysis or by depression? Or by … Continue reading →