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As I was mindlessly scrolling through my Instagram feed, I kept coming across posts and stories promoting the #PayUp Campaign, which challenges fashion brands to compensate their own workers (which should be a no-brainer?). My curiosity piqued with each post I saw, especially when my friends who barely use social media started posting about it. You know it’s serious when your inactive friends come out of hiding to show their support. After a little digging, I found I shared a personal connection to the cause, which advocates for the workers of Bangladesh. Being Bangladeshi myself, I knew I had to...

Pregnancy brings with it so many exciting changes including an entire wardrobe overhaul. Motherhood Maternity and A Pea in the Pod just announced the launch of Motherhood Rental, a new maternity clothing subscription service that makes it easy to dress for every stage of pregnancy. Subscribers can swap out styles as often as they want, choosing from A Pea in the Pod and Motherhood’s “most loved” best-sellers, customer faves, and new and seasonal deliveries, to build your dream closet through all three trimesters. Shoppers can build out their closet by choosing a minimum of eight of their favorite styles, prioritizing...

For those in the know, the character of Perry Mason has been at the center of many types of media. He’s probably most well known, though, as the main character of a long-running television series (which was, in turn, based on a series of books by author Erle Stanley Gardner). Today, however, we’ll take a look at the new Perry Mason series from HBO and analyze its style. Perry Mason: Small-Screen Menswear Style Review The original TV series was broadcast from 1957 to 1966, running for 9 seasons and 271 episodes. In it, actor Raymond Burr portrayed Perry Mason as...

In the spring of 2016, a striking art installation was constructed outside MIT’s building E15. The work consisted of 20,000 small green plexiglass squares, with intricate holes cut in each one, depicting vanished or endangered pieces of global cultural heritage, including buildings, monuments, and sculptures. Attached to fencing about 40 feet high, the squares collectively formed an image of the Arch of Triumph from Palmyra, Syria, an ancient treasure destroyed by fundamentalists in 2015. Lit up at night or shimmering in daytime, this installation — the “Memory Matrix” — was a powerful reminder of the fragility of our cultural creations...

Even in these times of social distancing, fast fashion group H&M wants to create closeness, even if only digitally. With the Wearable Tech collection the H&M Lab Germany has developed a technology that turns fashion into a medium for emotions. The first product is a denim jacket with flexible sensors and tactile elements that are incorporated into the shoulder sections. The concept: garments equipped with sensors imitate human touch and give the wearer the feeling of being ‘hugged’ or ‘cuddled’–despite physical distance. The technology inside the wearable love jacket was developed in cooperation with Berlin start-up Boltware. That offers a...