Journalist writing about culture, tech and fashion. Currently: Vogue Formerly: Financial Times, WIRED, VICE, The Times
Instagram Overload? Here’s How To Detox Your Feed For The Sake Of Your Mental Health
Now, more than ever, our smartphones have become an essential tool for maintaining real-world relationships. But with a constant flow of hard-hitting news jumbled up with memes and #WFH selfies, our feeds (and minds) are at risk from information overload. This particularly potent virtual cocktail can be overwhelming, not only while we’re still scrolling, but also after we’ve finally managed to put our phones down – a pattern that can rapidly begin to feel like a vicious cycle over the course ...
Living News Ταξιδι Vintage Λονδίνο
Παράδεισος του vintage, το Λονδίνο φημίζεται για τα καλύτερα καταστήματα του είδους. Εκεί μπορεί να βρει κανείς μοναδικά ρούχα και αξεσουάρ, «θησαυρούς» για τους πιστούς της τάσης – συνήθως ανθρώπους με έμφυτο στιλ –, όλο και περισσότερους τα τελευταία χρόνια. Όμως, πώς ακριβώς ορίζεται το vintage; Για να χαρακτηριστεί ως τέτοιο ένα κομμάτι, πρέπει να έχει κατασκευαστεί πριν από τουλάχιστον είκοσι χρόνια και να είναι αντιπροσωπευτικό της εποχής του, ενώ τα καινούργια με vintage αισθητική αποκ...
TikTok, time is running out for brands to master the fastest-growing social media app in history
As with every new social media app growing in popularity, the younger generation are at the forefront, the brands are desperately trying to jump on the bandwagon, whilst the rest of us are left in a state of confusion.
TikTok has 500 million users, and in short, is an app for making and sharing short videos (reminiscent of the late Vine app). The hashtag on TikTok plays an important role, not for news like Twitter or fashion trends like Instagram, but for various different challenges, such as...
The realities of egg freezing
In an attempt to encourage a work and life balance and close its embarrassing gender pay gap, which reaches to 50,6 per cent, Goldman Sachs launched its new benefit scheme for its employees earlier this month—a fund of $20,000 (£15,400) to cover the costs of extracting or purchasing donated eggs for prospect parents.
This is not the first time a company announces a scheme of that nature. In 2014, tech-titans Apple and Facebook made headlines when they announced that they would include the opt...
Voguing in Athens: Greek Realness
“The name of our House is a paraphrase of the world 'cunt', which in English has a negative connotation, but on the ballroom has the exact opposite”, says Chraja, the Father of the Grecian House of Kareola.
Trippin speaks to Athens-based House of Kareola about the politics of Voguing, the Athenian scene and of course what they are going to wear at the ball.
The members of the House have just finished their rehearsal ahead of the third Voguing ball taking place in Athens. In a back yard, in ea...
Wekafore on Mixing Purpose with Fashion
We’re in Barcelona not for the tapas, nor for the touristic attractions but to speak with Wekafore the emerging fashion designer whose clothes are not only effortlessly cool but they also have an interesting story behind them.
Wekafore grew up in suburban Nigeria, his routine consisted of street-football and spending time in his mother’s workshop, a textile manufacturer. Re-stitching and press-ironing his school trousers at the workshop, he later found himself in Dubai where being racially di...
Mary Katrantzou: Η Vogue Greece επισκέφθηκε το ατελιέ της και μίλησε μαζί της
Στο πρόγραμμα της Εβδομάδας Μόδας του Λονδίνου, εκτός από τα νέα ταλέντα που συνηθίζει να στηρίζει η βρετανική πρωτεύουσα, οι editors και οι buyers (οι οποίοι και αποφασίζουν, τελικά, ποιος και τι θα είναι στη μόδα) έχουν στραμμένα τα βλέμματά τους σε τρία σόου: Burberry, Vivienne Westwood και Mary Katrantzou. Δύο εβδομάδες πριν από αυτό της Ελληνίδας σχεδιάστριας, την επισκέφτηκα στο στούντιό της, στο Ανατολικό Λονδίνο. Έξω έβρεχε –φυσικά–, αλλά ο χώρος ήταν ζεστός και φωτεινός από τα πολλά ...
South London’s James Massiah is spearheading the new wave of poetry
The South London poet on why poetry is best way to communicate with people now
Will 3D printed human skin make animal testing for cosmetics obsolete?
It may sound like science fiction but the beauty industry is experiencing a makeover and for the first time it’s not at the expense of animals
Back in 2015, L’Oréal announced that it was experimenting with printing human skin tissue on which to test its cosmetics. The French beauty giant – which owns Lancôme and Maybelline, among many others – was the first beauty conglomerate to announce such intentions. The same year, L’Oréal partnered with Organovo, a San Diego-based start-up that designs ...
Everyone wants to know about my model side hustle
Fashion shoots and catwalks pay well — but we are still part of the gig economy
These zines prove publishing in Athens is far from in crisis
Studio spaces are cheap, printing costs are economical and the sun is shining – these publications demonstrate that financial strife works in funny ways
Raves From The Crypt
Everyone knows from the news that Bitcoin, Ethereum and the rest of cryptocurrencies are being used for a crypto-black market of the so called dark net, but apart from buying your regular run of the mill drugs or guns, you can also use cryptocurrencies to go raving, and do drugs and possibly point gun fingers.