Nigeria’s flamboyant aso ebi dressing style is popular – but it’s become a financial burden: Aso ebi – “family uniform” – is the Yoruba custom of people dressing alike for social events. The custom is rooted in kinship (ebi), an important aspect of Yoruba social life since precolonial times in what’s now south-west Nigeria. Words …
Skateboard at the Design Museum celebrates 60 years of style, culture and cool: Skateboards are not complicated design objects. They consist of little more than a simple deck, usually made of wood, which forms the riding surface. The board is completed by a pair of trucks (pivoted metal turning devices) and four polyurethane wheels. With …
JFK 60 years on: his leadership style and the reality behind the myths: John F. Kennedy retains an iconic status as an exemplary – even inspirational – public figure and his leadership approach has been influential for decades. The former US president (1961-63) projected an idealist image of leadership, which, at its best, demonstrated that …
Yevonde: Life and Colour exhibition reopens the National Portrait Gallery in style: A long-overdue exhibition of the work of photographer Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975) has opened at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London. Yevonde: Life and Colour is the first major exhibition since the gallery reopened its doors, following a three-year refurbishment. Throughout her life, Yevonde …
The Ashes: how England cricket’s head coach Brendon McCullum developed his ‘Bazball’ style: The Ashes series of Test cricket matches (played by England and Australia) are a sporting fixture like no other and serve up a scintillating summer of high quality Test match cricket. It is one of the leading biannual international Test cricket series …
How the fashion of the Windrush generation shaped British style: The outfits that new Caribbean arrivals to Britain wore as they disembarked the HMT Empire Windrush – and all the other boats that followed – served as a reassurance of their sense of self. They had left their previous home behind and, at this stage …
Manchester City: how Pep Guardiola’s leadership style formed a squad of champions: As the final whistle blew in Nottingham Forest’s 1-0 win over Arsenal on May 20, celebrations erupted approximately 85 miles away in the city of Manchester. Thanks to the points Arsenal lost in their defeat, Manchester City were crowned Premier League champions for …
Time Shelter: International Booker’s first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas: A philosophical exploration of memory and nostalgia, about forgetting and trying to hold on to our past and make sense of our present and future, Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is a worthy winner of this year’s International Booker prize. …
TikTok’s Wes Anderson trend: why the quirky director’s style is ripe for social media parody: Three weeks ago, during a habitual morning scroll through social media, I kept coming across highly stylised video montages of people going about their every day lives. In one video, a man documented himself working in his wood shop. The …
Konica Minolta celebrates Earth Hour – ‘2020-Tree’ style: Konica Minolta celebrates Earth Hour – ‘2020-Tree’ style Konica Minolta South Africa employees donate trees, desks and chairs to Orange Farm primary school Konica Minolta South Africa’s commitment to the environment continues with a generous donation of 30 trees, desks and chairs to Imbali Combined School in …
Your style of social media use may be connected to your wellbeing: Pixabay Are you a doom scroller or a Twitter addict? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others’ posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content? Psychologists believe our style of social media …
Titanic at 25: how James Cameron captured 1990s anxieties with pure golden-age Hollywood style: James Cameron poses during a promotional event for Titanic 3D. Franck Robichon Titanic (1997) arrived as disaster films were experiencing a comeback. Compared to the apocalypses visited on the world in Michael Bay’s Armageddon (1997) or Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996), …
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