October 03, 2018 at 09:04AM It’s official: We’re living in an era of anything-goes fashion. Thanks to social media, you can now source style inspo for so. many. places. So, whenever any one trend starts standing out (looking at you, athleisure) it attracts attention. One thing I kept noticing during my endless scrolls through street style photos from the fashion shows this past month were women wearing diamond strand earrings. Think: tennis bracelets but for your ears. These swinging statement earrings add a glittery finishing touch to high-fashion outfits, as well as an unexpected embellishment to streetwear styles. These swinging statement earrings showed up on lobes in New York City, London, Milan, and Paris. And their universal appeal isn’t just geographic. They added a glittery finishing touch to high-fashion outfits, as well as an unexpected embellishment to streetwear styles. While I’m sure at least some of the well-heeled women who attend fashion shows were wearing actual diamonds, in all likelihood, at least a few strands of sparklers were actually diamantes (or adorned with artificial gemstones like cubic zirconia). Either way, they were the coolest new accessory I clocked all month, making them my biggest fall earring trend for 2018. Better yet? They’ll still be in style come holiday season. 8 strand earrings to shop now and still wear later Buy Now Swarovski Fluid Drop Pierced Earring $299 Buy Now Baublebar Charlotte Drop Earrings $38 Buy Now Swarovski Fit Clip Earrings $129 Buy Now Gigi & Joux Ella Diamond And Sterling
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Kindbody is on a mission to reinvent women’s healthcare—starting with a fertility clinic on wheels
October 03, 2018 at 05:00AM It’s 9:30 a.m. on a weekday, and a growing line of women is forming on a busy Midtown block in New York City. Is a celeb graciously posing for pics? A café handing out free matcha? Nope. These women are waiting their turn to climb aboard a buttercup yellow van to have their fertility tested. “We’re reinventing healthcare for the modern woman, starting with fertility and wellness services,” says Kindbody co-founder Joanne Schneider. In conjunction with opening its first clinics (one is now open in NYC, with a second planned for early 2019, while a San Francisco location is in the works), she’s overseeing the company’s pop-up, a mobile fertility van offering free fertility testing to women. “One of our big missions is to start normalizing the conversation around fertility,” Schneider says. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9dJqAryCU]Fahimeh Sasan is a board-certified OB-GYN and one of Kindbody’s founding physicians. She’s been practicing for 12 years and says it’s rare that women ask about fertility during appointments. Usually, they get their pap smear done or their birth control prescription written and that’s it, appointment over. But if you aren’t thinking about getting pregnant right now—as in, it could not be more off your radar—is the conversation even worth having? Can’t it wait until you’ve figured out your 401(k) or at least, you know, don’t have roommates? Dr. Sasan says if you’re over 25, it’s absolutely worth bringing up with your MD. Photo: Kindbody “I often have patients who are 39 or
Why artificial sweetener is worse for you than sugar
October 03, 2018 at 04:23AM If you’re cutting back on sugar and replacing it with artificial sweeteners, as many people do, I have bad news for you: Those pink, yellow, and blue packets are even worse for you than sugar—and this is coming from me, the guy who calls sugar “the devil.” While that package of Equal, Sweet‘N Low, or Splenda (yes, even Splenda!) may dump fewer actual calories into your morning coffee, there’s little research to support the idea that this is healthier. The taste of sweet—be it artificial or actual sugar—appears to play a significant role in increasing appetite. (In fact, multiple large-scale studies over the last 30 years have repeatedly found that artificial sweetener users gained more weight or had higher BMIs than those who didn’t use them.) The taste of sweet—be it artificial or actual sugar—appears to play a significant role in increasing appetite Here’s the deal: Virtually all the popular, non-caloric sweeteners have one thing in common—they’re significantly sweeter than sugar. Now logically, you’d think all that sweetness would enable you to use less or eat a smaller amount of an artificially sweetened product. But guess what? These super-sweeteners seem to have the opposite effect, in part by flooding your taste buds with sweet, dulling them to the taste, pushing your sweetness threshold ever higher, while never actually satisfying the craving. Some studies indicate that the super-sweetness of the artificial stuff may interfere with the release of satiety hormones, slowing your body’s ability to send signals to the brain that you’ve had enough—which leads to
I caught a skin fungus from working out, so I asked derms how you can avoid living my nightmare
October 03, 2018 at 03:44AM Listen up, sweat fanatics: I’m about to tell a tale about a very sexy topical topic—skin fungus. Early this summer, a small population of cream-colored splotches cropped on my chest and upper back, slightly paler than the rest of my body. I responded with what was more or less a shrug. Hey! I live in the great concrete jungle of NYC, where the new species I’m exposed to tend to be more of the pizza rat variety. And since my dermis’ new inhabitants didn’t itch or anything, I kinda just figured: “Eh.” Flash forward a few months to when my family and I took a trip to the seaside of Massachusetts where I had the first occasion of the summer season to wear a bathing suit. As I headed to the shore with my younger sister, she took one look at my back and said, “Oh, I’ve seen that before. It’s a fungus.” And that was enough: I promptly got to my dermatologist’s office. There, I learned that, A) my fungus is called “tinea versicolor,” and B) people like me—who spend a good portion of their lives in a sweat-soaked sports bra—are particularly susceptible. (The fungus thrives in damp conditions.) “Oh, I’ve seen that before. It’s a fungus.” Even though my derm prescribed me a special foam cleanser to rid my body of the stuff, I still had a ton of lingering queries about skin fungi. Like, what causes an outbreak? Are there different types besides tinea versicolor? Do
Taking my husband’s last name was a wild bureaucratic marathon that I wish I never ran
October 03, 2018 at 03:00AM Let me get this out of the way up front: I adore my husband. We’ve been happily married for two years, and he’s the best thing that ever happened to me. But making his last name legally my own? That’s hands down one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made. When we were dating and even engaged, I thought that sharing the same last name would make me feel like we were more of a family. I thought the outward-facing world would regard us as more of a united front if our house appeared more, well, united. Not in a Game of Thrones House Stark kind of way, but just in the sense that I couldn’t wait to be this man’s family, and I wanted the whole world to know it. The pressure was entirely of my own making—my husband never cared whether I took his name, and he respected my choice to add to my career’s worth of editorial work under my maiden name (I still use my maiden name as a byline). Still, on the day we went to City Hall in New York City to get our marriage license, it took me by surprise when the clerk informed me that if I wanted to eventually take his name, even a year or so down the road, I’d have to decide right then and there, on the spot. I balked at the suggestion. Surely she was wrong. Not everyone who takes a married name has
With billion-dollar evaluations and million-dollar investments, streetwear is the boutique fitness of fashion
October 03, 2018 at 02:57AM Athleisure might have started out as a trend, but it’s now the fastest-growing category in fashion. And its staying power is trickling down to another style of casual dressing: streetwear. At this point, the two words are basically synonyms to most people, because we use them interchangeably to describe a more everyday form of fashion than what you’d find on the runways. One that’s tinged with athletic undertone or overtones, if you will. Streetwear is as much a community, however, as it is a style category. In a lot of ways, it feels like the boutique fitness of fashion. Not only have brands such as Supreme, Kith, and Off-White amassed cult followings and gained reputations for successfully disrupting the traditional fashion model. They’ve also attracted the attention of major investors. Supreme received a $1 billion valuation last fall, making it the Peloton of streetwear startups. The estimate seems to answer the question: Are streetwear brands worth it? In a word: yes. In fact, investors have seeded about $180 million to streetwear startups in the last few years, according to Fashionista. And just like the boutique fitness industry, which expanding at an exponential rate, this influx of interest and capital has some already wondering if it’s creating a bubble around streetwear brands. And if so, will it burst? The resale market for coveted items like Off-White sneakers can see them going for double (often more) of the suggested market value at online consignment. Fashionista notes that sites focused on women’s
Chunky sneakers are the biggest athleisure trend of 2018
October 01, 2018 at 12:00PM Last December, when this story was originally published, its headline was: In defense of chunky sneakers, the comfiest footwear trend of 2018. Back then, the buzz around bulky kicks that could double as ankle weights was just starting to grow. Flash forward to today, and it’s now one of the biggest sneakers trends for fall—and the top athleisure trend of 2018. These days, just about every fashion girl from Los Angeles to Paris and beyond—think: Kaia Gerber, Bella Hadid, Kim Kardashian, and more—has laced up a pair of chunky sneakers, which you may remember originated in the ’90s when Fila introduced the OG of “dad shoes,” its Disruptor 2. Thanks to a renewed interest in fashions from that era, the Italian heritage brand is having a renaissance—it held its first fashion show in Milan last month and released an exclusive new capsule collection with Bandier, an upscale activewear boutique around the same time. High-end labels and classic sportswear brands, alike, helped the footwear style go from fad to mainstream by adding ultra-supportive sneakers to their collections in 2018. Some designers, like Stella McCartney, have streamlined the volume from those ’90s versions for a sleeker fit. Others fed into the nostalgia factor like Nike with its M2K Tekno, Puma and its Thunder, and Balenciaga with its Triple S. “The trend provides an opportunity to expand your sneaker collection beyond minimalist styles.” Celebrity stylist Jasmine Caccamo says that while the look may not be for everyone, it’s more versatile than you
H&M’s eco-friendly fall collection wants your attention, conscientious consumers
October 01, 2018 at 12:02PM Fast fashion has never been synonymous with sustainability. Quite the opposite actually. But, as millennial shoppers (AKA these brands’ target audience) grow more conscientious with their consumption, that’s starting to change. Case in point? H&M is launching its first eco-friendly fall collection. The autumn/winter offerings are part of a Conscious Exclusive line, which the Swedish retailer introduced two springs ago. “It all started with a desire to create a statement coat in a sustainable material that could be worn for both those special occasions and day-to-day life, but then evolved into something more substantial,” says Ann-Sofie Johansson, creative advisor at H&M, in a press release. H&M’s designers used eco-friendly materials like recycled wool, cashmere, polyester, and Econyl, a fabric made from recycled plastic—plus, 100 percent organic fibers like silk—to create a 32-piece capsule of womenswear, lingerie, and accessories, ranging from a $15 pair of dusty-rose-colored underwear to a dolman-sleeved jacket ($300) embroidered with recycled sequins. The end result is as chic as it is sustainable. Photo: H&M The line is also proving that sustainability, in addition to innovative of-the-moment style, sells. The collection only dropped on September 27, but some items have already sold out, like a pair of statement clip-on earrings that resemble cascading orchid petals and a sweatshirt hood covered in black sequins. Other notable offerings, such as a cozy V-neck sweater and a velvet miniskirt aren’t likely to last long, either. That items are already flying off shelves bodes well for H&M’s bigger goals: It
Exclusive: Naturopathica launches book featuring beauty regimens for different “skin personalities”
October 01, 2018 at 04:07AM Naturopathica has been slaying the holistic beauty game since it first opened its spa doors in East Hampton in 1995. Since then, herbalist-aromatherapist-skin-care pro, founder, and CEO of the brand Barbara Close has made her company a go-to in the spa world and with natural beauty enthusiasts everywhere. So it couldn’t have been more fitting when the holistic skin-care powerhouse introduced customized facials—targeted to four different skin personalities—along with seven new products to go along with them. Post-facial, you’ll walk away with a dedicated regimen that involves nutrition tips, herbal remedies, and lifestyle advice, too. Now, all that advice (think of it as an owner’s manual for your healthiest skin, ever) has been rolled up into a must-have new edition of Close’s book, The Naturopathica Effect, featuring a foreword by Well+Good co-founder Melisse Gelula. “I’ve always said it takes more than a serum to have beautiful skin—so to walk the walk, this treatment really addresses people’s skin care from a holistic approach that balances more than the complexion,” Close tells me over kombuchas at her Chelsea Healing Arts Center. “This treatment really addresses people’s skin-care from a holistic approach that balances more than the complexion.” Accordingly, each facial begins with a comprehensive questionnaire (which asks everything from how your skin responds to stress to how many cups of coffee you drink a day). An esthetician then determines your skin personality—this goes way beyond the old-school skin types like normal, dry, and oily—which Close believes don’t really
5 easy, next-level ways to detox your home
October 01, 2018 at 03:30AM Clean-living guru Sophia Gushée is the queen of healthy-home vibes—and she’s full of easy-to-implement ideas for detoxing your living environment. Here, the Well+Good Council member and toxic-exposure expert shares some smart, simple ways to create fresher air, a calmer vibe, and an all-around healthier place to live. Since I detoxed my home, I’ve never felt better. When people ask me how to do it for themselves, there are a few things I recommend. Replacing typical cleaning products with healthier ones is a good place to start, since you can quickly swap toxic chemicals for inexpensive DIY formulas. (Get some of my “recipes” here.) I also advise banning shoes inside the home, since they can track in pesticides and lead. And when you can leave the windows open, please do—it lets fresh air circulate. If you’re already doing that, though, here are five next-level tweaks that will help make your home as clean and healthy as it can be. Photo: Alto Images / Stocksy Freshen the air…naturally Home odors happen to all of us, but I don’t use traditional air fresheners. First, they’re filled with chemicals—many of which may be harmful to human health. Furthermore, all they do is mask odor with a synthetic scent. I think it’s better to figure out the source of a bad smell, and once you’ve eliminated the cause, try this method for clearing the air. Get two Mason jars. Fill one with baking soda to absorb odors, and fill the