Visits: 41 Brands find that some of their customers’ pandemic-era buying habits are here to stay. It has been more than a year since Covid-19 restrictions faded away in most parts of the world, but some fine jewelry brands are …
Who Gets to Use a Hair Oil?
Visits: 24 When bottles of a hair-care product favored by Black women started getting harder to find, all eyes turned to the influencers. When vials of Mielle Organics’ rosemary-mint hair oil started disappearing from store shelves this year, Black women …
The Golden Age of Dispensary Design Is Almost Here
Visits: 29 Grateful Dead tapestries. Lava lamps. The distinctive orange inspired by Flamin’ Hot Cheetos dust painted indiscriminately on walls. Until now, these were the markings of marijuana dispensaries, dripping with 1960s hippie nostalgia and the musings of the stereotypical …
The New Laws Trying to Take the Anxiety Out of Shopping
Visits: 45 Fashion can’t stop talking about sustainability. Now it may have to put more money where its mouth is, as regulators set their sights on the industry. This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative …
For Queer Couples, Engagement Rings With Subversive Stones
Visits: 30 As one jeweler put it, many of her L.G.B.T.Q. clients want “the opposite of what a diamond is supposed to stand for.” Sapphires, opals and other nontraditional stones have in turn grown more coveted. Salt-and-pepper diamonds used to …
The Year of Buyer’s Remorse
Visits: 31 Jenn Takahashi remembers March 27 as the date she panic-bought a Nintendo Switch Lite. She realized her colleagues were playing an online game called Animal Crossing in which your character, usually an anthropomorphic animal, moves to a deserted …