Six times Bella Hadid was a style icon
Since she burst onto the fashion scene, Bella Hadid has been a style force to be reckoned with. Her 90s modelesque aura is ubiquitous and exudes a nonchalant demeanour. Our…
Discussing beauty, business and the Middle East with Duck & Dry’s Yulia Rorstrom
Leaving finance behind to make her mark on the beauty industry, Yulia Rorstrom’s career history is nothing short of extraordinary. In 2014, equipped with vision and raw entrepreneurship, Yulia embarked…
Do Middle Eastern and South Asian ‘Fiat 500 girls’ exist?
What happens when you coin the term ‘basic’ and transform it into its very own URL subculture? You get a spew of Fiat 500 girls, babes. As defined by PopBuzz,…
9/11 and the British Bangladeshi identity crisis
The British Bangladeshi identity is one that has been through the works and when you consider the history of the community, there is no wonder as to why. Although Bengali…
The language of internal monologues when you’re bilingual
I was just three-years-old when I first grasped the English language. Although I was born and raised in London, I grew up in a Turkish/Kurdish community and was immersed in…
Do we have an obligation to ensure our partners are anti-racist?
At some point or another, we’ve probably all experienced that mind-numbing level of repulsion that comes from seeing your partner do something cringey. In the recent age, we call that…
The surprising Middle Eastern origin behind hen nights
A hen night conjures up images of a bride-to-be surrounded by her friends drinking prosecco, having a joyous time dancing and savouring her last days of freedom before settling into…
Are current conversations on racism achieving anything?
It is difficult not to feel that the reaction to George Floyd’s murder has been about cosmetics. We have been treated to woke capitalism as corporations gorged themselves on a…
