Category: Women

Just shy of her 42nd birthday, Lancôme dumped Isabella Rossellini, the world’s best-paid model and screen actor. Dumped? Well, they said that, two years hence, they ‘would not be renewing her $2m-a-year contract as its exclusive spokesmodel’. It had been a 14-year gig. ‘The caesura became a cause célèbre, a fable on the theme of […]

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‘We can bury anyone’ First, a mea culpa. Last year I wrote a critical piece about the promotional campaign for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It Ends With Us. The fact that Blake Lively appeared to be using a movie about domestic violence to promote her husband’s gin brand as well as her […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about something the fashion designer Bella Freud said recently, which was that she aims to create clothes that make you feel intrepid. This was such a nice way of expressing what great clothes do, which is not just to give you confidence, but also to connect you to the world. […]

It’s lunchtime on a Wednesday and I am in a dark room, shaking intensely. My forearms are propped up on a big black machine called a “Sweatlana”. Like five other quaking women beside me, I am furiously plank-crunching, attempting to move the machine’s carriage forwards and backwards using only the force of my abs. “Come […]

Since Trump’s election win in the US, the idea of a “sex strike”, linked to a form of women’s activism that began in South Korea, has taken hold on social media. Like many things that become a mainstream buzzword, it is in fact about much more than the literal meaning of those words. This iteration […]

Some call it “boysober”. Others take inspiration from South Korea’s 4B movement. And many just get right to it: they’re celibate. For Olivia Iverson, a 28-year-old Minneapolis woman, it’s a little more complicated. For the past two years, she hasn’t dated much. She’s not opposed to finding someone, but she’s sworn off the apps and […]

Last month, 3,500 feminists from every corner of the world came together in Bangkok for a conference hosted by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (Awid). Eight years of planning went into the event, years that coincided with some of the most challenging and transformative global moments. The Covid pandemic, for example, ensured that […]

The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially dangerous online spaces of their own: the femosphere. It is a term used by Dr Jilly […]

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