Across the globe, beauty means different things to different people. There’s an innate connection without our inner beauty and outer beauty, and much of this is deep-rooted in cultural traditions and heritage. Throughout the world, ...
Self-care is becoming the buzz word of our generation. It’s the realisation for most millennials that we need to take time out of our hectic schedules to focus on our mental health and wellbeing, to ...
As this years drawing to a close, I’m realising how much it’s shaping up to be one of dramatic change. And I, for one, am emotionally exhausted. As someone in my mid-twenties, I feel like ...
Using fashion as a form of cultural expression to line your pockets, without real knowledge or understanding of the history you’re trying to replicate and imitate, is not only disrespectful to the craft but more ...
Working at LAPP HQ has its many privileges, but nothing compares to the opportunity to interview talented women of colour like Dalia Dias. Born to Nigerian and Egyptian parents and raised in North London, Dias has ...
When it comes to talking about where today’s fashion gets a majority of its inspiration from, it’s virtually impossible not to mention black women. One specific area of black culture that definitely stands out when ...
The establishment and mainstream media have been pointing the finger at everything between social media, gang grooming and now Drill music as the cause of what has been described by the Metropolitan Police as “a ...
“Everyone wants to be black until it’s time to be black.” This phrase has never been truer. There is a desire from non-black (N-B) people to emulate black features and black cultural practices in today’s ...
The unrelenting vulnerability of Dev Hynes’ album Negro Swan celebrates and extends the meaning of blackness beyond stereotypes. He challenges expectations of beauty, masculinity and other constructs that attempt to limit the way people take ...