.png)
Style Essentials Edit Team
Style Essentials Edit Team
top of page
RECENT
Product Review: 0.3% Pure Retinol Face Serum by /PHD/ Proven Honest Derma
We have covered /PHD/ Proven Honest Derma before and every product from this brand has impressed us. The 0.3% Pure Retinol Face Serum is no different. Fragrance-free, milky in texture, and genuinely suited for every skin type in the house.
Shweta
FASHION
Born in the Purple: How a Teenager Killed a 3,000-Year Luxury
There was a stretch of history, several thousand years of it, when the wrong person in a purple robe could be executed for the offence. The color surrendered its exclusivity not to a rival empire but to an eighteen-year-old who was trying to make something else entirely.
Alisha M
The Last Luxury Materials on Earth: Rarer Than Any Logo
At the top of fashion, the thing being paid for is rarely a name on a label. It is a fibre, a skin or a resin so scarce that nature has already decided how little of it can exist.
Alisha M
Arpita Mehta's Debut Couture Collection Looks to India's Textiles, and to How Women Actually Celebrate Now
Arpita Mehta takes her signature mirror work to the couture runway for the first time with Ceremonial, her debut collection at Hyundai India Couture Week 2026. Drawing on Bandhani, Banarasi, and tissue, and introducing Kantha for the first time, she treats India's heritage textiles as living crafts rather than artifacts in a color story that travels from soft neutrals into violet and sindoor red.
Style Essentials Edit Team
BEAUTY
Style Essentials Edit Team
2 min read
Style Essentials Edit Team
2 min read
BOOKS & ART
Book Review: Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right by Kalpish Ratna
Most of us have only the vaguest idea of what happens to our food once we have swallowed it. We know it goes somewhere, and we trust that the body will sort it out, and beyond that our curiosity tends to stop at the plate.
Book Review: Leadership Without Mind Games: How to Win People Over Without Manipulating Them by Frank Hagenow
Anyone who has worked under a manager who treated people as levers to be pulled knows the particular exhaustion it produces. There is the colleague who withholds praise on purpose so you keep working for it, the boss who plays two team members against each other and calls it healthy competition; and the quiet manipulations dressed up as strategy that everyone can feel even when no one can quite name them.
Ken Price, Alien Terrain, Trondheim, Norway by PoMo
PoMo presents Alien Terrain, the first solo exhibition in Norway of American artist Ken Price, bringing together 14 late-period ceramic and bronze sculptures that sit between bodily form and imagined terrain.
bottom of page