The season has arrived — and this one is packed with reasons to be somewhere extraordinary. After a year that has thrown us geopolitical drama, market volatility, and more political plot twists than a prime-time boxset, I’ll admit summer 2026 arrives feeling like genuine relief. The world isn’t fixed — it rarely is — but […]
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Some news stops you mid-scroll, thumb hovering, tea going cold. Sad news reached me from the Dominican Republic — an Italian tourist lost her life in a fire that tore through a beach resort. The kind of story that quietly punctures the illusion every glossy brochure sells us: that a holiday is a place where
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I’ll tell you the moment I knew quiet luxury wasn’t a passing phase. It was when I stopped feeling the tiniest pull toward the shiny, logo-stamped things I once thought I was supposed to want — and felt something close to relief instead. The logo, it turns out, stayed dead. And something far more interesting
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April 20–26, 2026 · Fiera Milano, Rho & citywide · 1,900+ exhibitors, 32 countries Once a year, Milan drops the act and admits what it quietly is the rest of the time: the design capital of the world. I have a real soft spot for this one. The 64th Salone del Mobile anchored a citywide
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March 25, 2026 · Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong · 1,000+ industry gues Can I confess a small bias of mine? I don’t entirely trust people who claim not to care about restaurant rankings. We all care. We pretend we’re above it, right up until someone mentions they’ve eaten somewhere on the list — and then,
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Let me describe a holiday you may recognise. Five cities in seven days. A suitcase that never fully unpacks. A camera roll bulging with photos of landmarks you half-remember, taken mostly so you could prove you’d been. You come home more exhausted than when you left — and quietly, guiltily wonder whether you actually enjoyed
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Throughout 2025 · MENTAL HEALTH 2025 marked the moment mental health shifted from a topic people talked about to one they actively invested in — with a growing industry For years, the advice was the same, wasn’t it? Just talk about it. And it was good advice — genuinely. Breaking the silence around mental health
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You’ve almost certainly heard the line: that you’re not really one organism at all, but a walking colony — outnumbered ten to one by the bacteria living in and on you. It’s a wonderfully creepy little fact. It’s also, it turns out, wrong. But stay with me, because the real story is far more interesting
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Not so long ago, telling someone your outfit was secondhand came with a tiny flinch — a little apology tucked into the sentence. In 2025, that flinch quietly vanished. Announcing you’d thrifted your coat stopped being a confession and became close to a “flex“. And the numbers behind that shift are genuinely eye-watering. Thrifting grew
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There’s a new chat-up line doing the rounds, and it isn’t “can I buy you a drink.” It’s “what’s your Strava?” Which tells you almost everything you need to know about how a generation decided to find its people in 2025. Not in the pub. On the pavement, at 7 am, in trainers. The running
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