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“This is 1.1 kilos of pure wool,” says Peregrine Clothing managing director Tom Glover as he drops a chunky, cable-knit fisherman’s jumper onto the desk in front of me. “It’s like the Rolls-Royce of jumpers. You couldn’t have this made cheaper offshore, not at this quality.”
We’re sitting in the British brand’s head office in Bristol. The jumper in question is a bestseller that encapsulates Peregrine’s ethos: it was made in the brand’s Manchester factory from 100% British wool; the farms and spinners all within a 300-mile radius. It’s not the softest fiber, but its texture has character in spades.
A few years ago, British wool was making headlines for all the wrong reasons: prices had fallen so low that some farmers were burning fleeces because it cost more to shear a sheep than what the fiber was worth. Since then, a quiet but determined movement has begun to pull the material back into relevance, especially in outerwear and men’s.
“What I like about British wool is that kind of melange-y [mixed fiber], authentic handle,” explains Glover. “It’s not a flat dye. I think that’s what separates British knitwear to, say, an Italian knit where the color is perfectly uniform. With British yarns, it’s more earthy. That’s what we sell ourselves on: personality and character.”
This past weekend, if you were walking through Shanghai’s Jing’An neighborhood—with the gilded roofs of its famous ancient temple site in one direction, and the teeming storefronts of the West Nanjing Road in the other—you might have spotted something a little curious.
Wandering through the gates and under the colonnades of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, crowds of smartly dressed locals were clutching takeaway coffee cups in pastel shades with matching stacks of books tucked under their arms, chattering around the fountains in the courtyards or along the sweeping staircases that led up to the building’s western wing.
Look a little closer, and you’d have noticed that a number of them were wearing the unmistakable arches of a specific brand’s logo: Miu Miu.
When, this past weekend, Hailey Bieber celebrated her 29th birthday with her husband—a little-known musical artist by the name of Justin Bieber—by her side, the sight of the happy couple (well, their clasped hands and socked feet, anyway) got us thinking about the long and winding road of their relationship.
Oh, you too? Well, how about a timeline of Justin and Hailey Biebers’ courtship and marriage, then? Without further ado…:
I don’t have many Christmas or Hanukkah traditions (beyond getting manically into holiday decor, melting a candy cane into my coffee while I wrap presents, and listening to Kacey Musgraves’s A Very Kacey Christmas album, that is), but one favorite activity involves going over to my best friend’s house for our annual Yuletide sleepover, changing into my plaid flannel Lanz nightgown, and firing up The Family Stone. Even though we rewatch the Thomas Bezucha-directed film quite literally every year, it somehow never gets old—so you can imagine my delight when I learned that we could soon be getting a sequel.
Granted, it’s somewhat heartrending to imagine the cast of The Family Stone reuniting without onscreen matriarch Diane Keaton, who died in October at the age of 79 and whose character Sybil’s death forms the emotional climax of the film. Clearly, Bezucha felt no different, telling CNN this week: “I’ve been haunted by the loss of Sybil for months now while I worked on [the sequel] so this was a blow on a tender bruise already. Mentally, I’ve been spending time in that house where I’ve been missing her for a while already.”
Sisters are having a major moment in fashion right now. (See: Balmain Fall 2015 campaign.) Joining the ranks of stylish sibling pairs like Kendall and Kylie, Poppy and Cara, Beyoncé and Solange, are Gigi and Bella Hadid—the next It sisters on everyone's radar.
And while Gigi Hadid may already have an impressive résumé as a model, both on runways and in magazines, little sis Bella is following fast and close—as evidenced by her latest gig.
Jessica Alba is speaking out in the wake of a new $5 million lawsuit filed against her business, the Honest Company.
Entertainment Tonight reports Jonathan D. Rubin filed the lawsuit in the District Court of Northern California in San Francisco, alleging Alba's company makes false claims about its natural products. The suit states the company promotes products "deceptively and misleadingly," and that products contain "unnatural" and synthetic" ingredients. The suit names specific products, including Honest Diapers, Honest Hand Soap, Honest Dish Soap and Honest Multi-Surface Cleaner
On Friday, Jessica released a statement in which she adamantly defends the company and its products. "The allegations against us are baseless and without merit," she stated. "We are steadfast in our commitment to transparency and openness.I know my children, Honor and Haven, are growing up in a safer home because of our products."
The Honor Company is valued at more than $1 billion. In August, the company faced public backlash on social media, as numerous consumers voiced complaints about the company's sunscreen and its failure to adequately protect them. Jessica responded in a company blog post, telling the public: "We've gone through extensive third-party testing in accordance with government regulations and our Sunscreen Lotion passed all SPF 30 testing requirements. It also received the best score possible from the Environmental Working Group (EWG)."
In the business of blogging, it's a numbers game. Growing your social media followers should be a top priority, as it often translates directly to more opportunities as a blogger. There are a few ways to grow on each channel and network, so the tips are a little different for each separate platform. Below, I broke up the go-to tricks that most bloggers use to boost their counts on Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat.
We may have a way to go until we achieve actual equality in the workplace, but the number of women leaders is growing—and The Limited wants to celebrate that. For their fall campaign "The New Look of Leadership," the company features more than 60 women who are forces in their industries, from motivational speaker, life coach, and author Gabrielle Bernstein to Tiffany Dufu, Levo League's chief leadership officer. The faces are a diverse, beautiful, and powerful reminder that absolutely anyone can be a trailblazer.
Really, truly, there is nothing more shiver-in-your-flippers scary than that moment when you emerge from a peaceful dip in the ocean to walk back up the beach to your towel. Things have shifted. Things are sheer, bunched, and clingy. And body parts are moving. As soon as I make the decision to get out of the water, I'm filled with dread because, while I picture myself looking effortlessly sexy whilst making that slow walk up that runway of a stretch of sand, I know it's just not the case. At all.
Disney and Warner Bros. will go head-to-head, both gearing up to release movie adaptations of The Jungle Book. Disney’s movie will star Lupita Nyong’o and Scarlett Johansson, while Warner Bros. has announced Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale as part of its lineup
