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Belgian fashion tome A Magazine Curated By is bringing back one of its most famous issues, complete with a revamped DIY guide.

The magazine typically invites a guest editor to design and inform the direction of each issue, as Yohji Yamamoto, Kim Jones, and Riccardo Tisci have done in the past. However, for its next release, A Magazine will be resurfacing its archives by reprinting the critically-acclaimed 2004 edition of "A Magazine Curated by Maison Martin Margiela."

The publication will be available exactly as it was printed nearly two decades ago with a removable transparent cover page and an additional excerpt from A Magazine's current editorial staff attached to the back. The contents explore the core tenets of Maison Margiela including the deconstruction of garment-making as well as street casting, unconventional beauty, and Dadaism.

Included in the magazine is a guide to creating your own Margiela sweater, which has been translated into a video by Alexandre Silberstein, replete with soothing ASMR-inducing sounds of an atelier. All you'll need is eight pairs of men's white socks, a pair of scissors, a sewing machine, and some white thread.

This issue also comes with a high-gloss collectors print from photographers Mark Borthwick, Anders Edstrom, Marina Faust, Ronald Stoops, Ola Rindal and Jonathan Hallam, which is selected at random and included with a charitable donation made in their name to Sea Watch and RIACE France.

You can pre-order A Magazine Curated by Maison Martin Margiela here.

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Here's How To Stitch a Margiela Sweater Out of Socks

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Belgian fashion tome A Magazine Curated By is bringing back one of its most famous issues, complete with a revamped DIY guide. The magazine typically invites a guest editor to design and inform the direction of each issue, as Yohji Yamamoto, Kim Jones, and Riccardo Tisci have done in the past.

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Barfing in a parking lot in Echo Park taught me more about energy than any class ever did.

It was a few years ago, when I was the Global Editorial Director of a well-known wellness website. A lot of my work involved proofreading stories about smoothie bowls, but often I'd get to interview individuals in the wellness space. One time I interviewed Bella Hadid and all she talked about was the restaurant Jitlada - it was great.

On this sunny day in Los Angeles, I was meeting a smoothie bowl influencer on the east side of LA to interview her for a feature on the site. Immediately when she arrived I knew something was off. Although we had an hour booked (and I'd hoofed it from Brentwood in LA traffic to make it to Echo Park on a weekday afternoon), our interview lasted for less than 15 minutes.

The bubbly, vivacious persona from Instagram was nowhere to be found. Instead, I struggled to get more than one-word answers from her. Listen, I know I'm not for everyone, but I'm pretty damn charming when I need to be - especially when it's my job. So this interaction was an anomaly.

And something else weird happened. During our short time together, I felt the tell-tale ping of a migraine kick in. My stomach churned. Somewhat grateful that our time together ended early, I rushed out to my parked car ... and unceremoniously ralphed on the asphalt. Embarrassing and disgusting!

Intuitively, I knew that something was up with the energy of that woman. As I drove away, I started to feel better. The further I got from the cafe, the more I felt like myself. By some small miracle, the migraine evaporated and the nausea faded. Energy is powerful, man.

I learned a really great lesson that afternoon - energy is powerful, but I am, too. I never want to be overpowered by someone else's energy in the room again. Maybe you can relate: Have you ever walked into a room and felt it distort your mood or energy? Perhaps you had physical symptoms like me, or it was a more energetic or emotional reaction. (If you've ever felt your stomach knot up when your angry boss walks into the office, you know what I'm talking about).

Having control over energy, and how we're affected by the energy around us, is a skill that everyone could benefit from. It's important in both work and personal settings; part mystical, part extremely realistic.

Keep scrolling for five directives to harnessing your own energy - so when you walk into the room you influence everyone around you to level up.

First and foremost - you are powerful. Not the crystals, not the incantations, not the Palo Santo. You. So while it's helpful to layer on other tools and objects to help strengthen your aura, at the end of the day you are the most powerful thing that affects your energy.

Second, it's important to ask yourself why you want to influence the energy of the room. Most of the time, we want to control the energy around us because we want to make things more convenient and comfortable for ourselves. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you're not harming others in the process.

The most obvious way to control the energy in a space is through your actions and your words. If you've got an authentic, embodied smile on your face you're presenting a very different energy than a scowl. Walking into a room and screaming, "WHAT UP, MF'ERS!!!!" has a very different vibe than walking up to people individually and introducing yourself with a hug. Neither is right or wrong! But influencing the space around you starts with the most obvious actions - your words and your physical body language.

When you operate these levers from a place of authenticity, you might expect everyone to be grateful and honoring of your authentic nature. They will not be. You are not for everyone, and that's OK. Not everyone has to like you, and you don't have to like everyone. Realizing and coming to terms with that is a baller move that will leave you truly exuding positive, calm energy.

Best herb for strengthening your energetic body and keeping icky energy from getting "stuck" to you. Astragalus is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen the wei qi energetic body. Add it into your coffee or smoothie in the morning.

Everyone has an electromagnetic field or aura that surrounds their body. In some traditions, it's believed that the aura extends 14" out from the body. Practicing xi gong is an excellent way to feel your aura and bring more awareness to your subtle bodies.

You can also practice Kundalini yoga, and this exercise in particular, to strengthen and extend your aura out. A powerful aura speaks before you do.

If you're Reiki-attuned, you can ground and clear the energy of the room with the flick of a hand. Reiki is a Japanese energy healing modality that's passed down through a teaching lineage, so unfortunately you can't receive an attunement (sort of like a certification - a Reiki practitioner must be "attuned" to the energy in order to practice). It's often used to heal people, but it can also be applied to spatial work.

If the vibe is funky, Reiki practitioners can use symbols to reverberate positive energy through the space and clear any nasty stuff that's floating around.

If you're working with someone 1:1 who's ... difficult, try to focus intently on what they're saying and how they're saying it. It's rare that we truly listen to people - most of the time, we're listening only for when we can jump into the conversation to respond. We even do things like smile, nod our head, or say things like, "Yes!" while another person is talking. But we're not actually hearing what the other person is authentically trying to tell us; rather, we're influencing their message by giving them positive (smiling, nodding) or negative feedback (interrupting). Either way, we're not really listening to what they came to say. Instead, we're subtly guiding them to what we want to talk about through a combination of body and verbal language.

If you're really listening, try looking the speaker directly in their eye and without nodding or smiling. Can you listen without responding? Just listen. Be a blank (but present!) slate.

You'll be surprised at how quickly someone's entire energetic field can shift after this sort of direct focus. It's powerful. Sometimes it can be off-putting, especially if the person doesn't speak intentionally. But most of the time, the speaker feels extremely honored by the listener - whether they realize it or not.

Giving people the space to be honored allows them to drop the baggage they might've come to you with. When we feel seen for who we are, we don't have to put up blocks, or be shitty, or loud, or crazy, or the life of a party. We can just be ourselves. That's the greatest gift you can give someone.

So the next time you walk into an intimidating meeting, or a party full of strangers, or stressy family dinner, remember that your powerful energy is the only energy that matters. You've always got your own back - and above all, when you know how navigate your own energy, you don't need to worry about anyone else but yourself.

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5 Ways To Influence The Energy Of A Room

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Barfing in a parking lot in Echo Park taught me more about energy than any class ever did. It was a few years ago, when I was the Global Editorial Director of a well-known wellness website. A lot of my work involved proofreading stories about smoothie bowls, but often I'd get to interview individuals in the wellness space.

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Blocked energy in our seven chakras can often lead to illness, so it's important to understand what each chakra represents and what we can do to keep this energy flowing freely. Here's our quick summary:

1. Root Chakra - Represents our foundation and feeling of being grounded.

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Blocked energy in our seven chakras can often lead to illness, so it's important to understand what each chakra represents and what we can do to keep this energy flowing freely. Here's our quick summary: 1. Root Chakra - Represents our foundation and feeling of being grounded.

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It's weird, but is it weird enough? In the house of Schiaparelli's past lives, that was often the question. Elsa Schiaparelli's surreal legacy looms large, and it's a tricky nut to crack, but Daniel Roseberry is proving himself a more than worthy inheritor.

"I really like the freedom in which Schiap explored things," Roseberry said over Zoom. "You know, while Chanel was making buttons made out of double C's and it was very much an exercise in branding, Schiap's buttons were peanuts and wrenches and hammers and birds and insects. It's kind of this referential gymnastics that I feel like we can have here, as long as it feels like part of one world and one language. People know they can go other places for more polite designs."

If Roseberry has more freedom than his creative director predecessors that's largely down to the fact that Lady Gaga wore his designs at the U.S. inauguration. Overnight, as he put it in the days afterward, Roseberry had a place in fashion history, and the label itself had a new international relevance and cachet. Unsurprisingly, the dove brooch that Lady Gaga wore to the inauguration has become a visual trope; it perches on the shoulder of a fitted black minidress among several other surreal bijoux and its outline is painted in black on a white button-down.

The doves, though, are absolutely the tamest part of Roseberry's new collection. While his materials and silhouettes are indeed more or less polite, his embellishments are anything but. A blazer of tweed woven in Scotland and cut with the sartorial know-how he picked up in his decade-plus at Thom Browne would be conventionally luxurious were it not for the moulded gold leather breasts affixed to its front. "It's about how can we own that thing for ourselves?" Roseberry said. Amidst the breasts and pierced nipples there are also ears, eyes, noses, and lips, all of which have been cast in gold, moulded in leather, or quilted in wool crepe.

"I don't want to be precious about any part of the body; you know, it's about kind of celebrating the whole thing," he said. But that's too easy. When the first known advertisement featuring lactating breasts aired just last week during the Golden Globes it made national news. Roseberry is no doubt well aware that breasts are a cultural flashpoint. Exploiting that flashpoint, he managed to render all the other designers playing with lingerie and kink this season look tame. Elsa could relate.

Roseberry will get a lot of attention for this collection. That's good for Schiaparelli, but it's also good for fashion. Ninety-some years ago Elsa was a foil for Coco, pressing her buttons. The industry could do with another provocateur; now is not the time to play it safe.

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Schiaparelli Fall 2021 Ready-to-Wear Collection

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It's weird, but is it weird enough? In the house of Schiaparelli's past lives, that was often the question. Elsa Schiaparelli's surreal legacy looms large, and it's a tricky nut to crack, but Daniel Roseberry is proving himself a more than worthy inheritor. "I really like the freedom in which Schiap explored things," Roseberry said over Zoom.

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At Unwrapped Life, we love our solid shampoo bars and conditioner bars for a whole host of reasons. Check out our top eight reasons below.

1. Shampoo bars are package-free

This is by far the number one reason to make the switch to shampoo bars and conditioner bars. These little pucks don't require packaging, so they are much better for the environment than their bottled counterparts.

We did some digging to understand how many bottles of shampoo there are in circulation globally, but weren't able to find anything that directly answered that question. Instead, we found some U.S. Census and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS) data that claim 298.83 million Americans used shampoo in 2017. Arguably, most of these people are using some form of bottled product, so that amounts to a heck of a lot of bottles, especially since that number doesn't include all the small bottles produced for hotels world-wide.

That was helpful(ish), but our my hunt we came across this article summarizing estimates from Euromonitor International's global packaging trends report that were concerning, While it's related to water bottle production, here are some terrifying highlights that shed light on the enormity of just how much disposable bottles we are generating annually:

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number is projected to jump another 20% by 2021

This equates to about 20,000 bottles being bought every second

More than 480 billion plastic drinking bottles were sold in 2016 across the world, up from about 300 billion a decade ago. If placed end to end, these bottles would extend more than halfway to the sun.

By 2021 annual plastic bottles sold is projected to increase to 583.3 billion.

Fewer than half of the bottles bought in 2016 were collected for recycling and just 7% of those collected were turned into new bottles. That means, approximately 93% of the 480 billion plastic water bottles sold in 2016 ended up in landfill or in the ocean.

These statistics are related to plastic water bottles ALONE! In other words, this info doesn't encompass all the other packaging waste in our supply chain, or other waste in general (hello, fast fashion!). When you start to think about it from that perspective, the numbers are pretty staggering. To us, it's a no brainer that it's better for the environment (and ultimately for the future of our species and all species on earth) to make an effort to reduce packaging across the board wherever possible.

Juxtaposition: our bars on the beach in Mexico with washed up trash.

Photo credit: Jasmine Negrieff

While switching to shampoo bars and conditioner bars may seem like it can barely make a dent in these numbers, think about it this way: as more people convert, more and more bottles will be diverted from landfills and our water ways. And the world needs all the help it can get on this front, don't you agree?

2. Shampoo bars are very concentrated

The bars are more concentrated than traditional shampoos and conditioners, so you can use less per application and they will last longer.

This is especially true with proper care (friends - don't be letting your bars soak in water, and don't store them in those cute travel tins for any length of time).

Why do they last longer? Take a look at a bottle of shampoo or conditioner in your shower or on the shelves in stores and the first ingredient you will see is water. This explains why you typically need a healthy dollop of product to get the performance you want. It's true, most bottles recommend only using a dime or quarter sized amount, but how many of us tend to use quite a bit more than that? With the bars, it's a lot more difficult to use too much, especially when you are applying the bars directly to your head (which is what we recommend). With the shampoo bars, you will find they suds up right away, so you're able to tell pretty quickly when you've reached your desired lather. And the conditioner bars take a little bit of extra effort to get your strands coated with enough product to feel slippery, which helps extend the life of the product and to prevent over-application.

Shampoo bars and conditioner bars are long-lasting! 50-75 washes per bar.
Photo credit: Jasmine Negreiff
3. Shampoo bars are great for travel

Shampoo bars and conditioner bars are great to travel with as you don't have to worry about any potential for spillage or liquid restrictions. The bars are perfect for carry on as no only are they small and light-weight, they are TSA approved, which means you don't have to plan your packing around your hair care products. And best of all, they help prevent using the individual-sized shampoos and conditioners at your hotel, which goes back to point #1 about reducing packaging waste.

These hair bar duos are great for travel - save space and prevent spillages!

Photo credit: Jasmine Negreiff

4. Shampoo bars are space savers

Shampoo bars and conditioner bars are great for saving space. Being much smaller and more light-weight than their bottled counterparts relative to the number of washings you can get from the same amount of product, shampoo bars and conditioner bars help you save space. This comes in handy in a variety of situations, from keeping your bathroom cabinets decluttered, to packing for an upcoming camping trip.

5.) Shampoo bars showcase minimalism at its finest

The bars help create a minimalist aesthetic in your shower/bathroom by reducing the cluttered look of bottles. This significantly reduces the amount of clutter in the shower, and with less stuff, not only does it look better, it's easier to clean; a win-win!

6. Shampoo bars offer a low carbon footprint

The overall carbon footprint is less with shampoo bars and conditioner bars. As mentioned, these solid bars are more light-weight and compact than their bottled counterparts, so they require less space during transport relative to the same amount of washes with liquid shampoo. Roughly ten to fifteen transport trucks of liquid shampoo would be needed for one transport truck of solid shampoo bars to get the same number of washes.

7. Shampoo bars are multi-purpose

Shampoo bars can also be used for other purposes like washing your body, your pets in a pinch or your clothes while or camping or travelling. Our conditioner bars also do triple duty, as a shave bar and an in-shower moisturizer.

8. Shampoo bars leave hair feeling clean

Our bars are a natural option, but we get it - we know there are even more natural options on the market (using only saponified oils). We tested many of these bars before formulating and creating our own and some of them left our hair feeling like a gummy mess while others were far too drying.

After months of trial, and a significant amount of money spent, we were still left wanting for something that would perform better for us.

Our shampoo bars and conditioner bars leave hair feeling lightweight and clean.

Photo credit: Jasmine Negreiff

Stay tuned for an upcoming post where we talk in more detail about the decisions behind the ingredients in our bars and how we're striving to make sustainability accessible and stylish for all!

We hope this list gives you a good sense of all the benefits that come from switching over to solid shampoo bars and conditioner bars! Have you tried them yet? What are your thoughts?

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Top eight reasons to make the switch to solid shampoo bars (and conditioner bars too!)

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Shampoo bars and conditioner bars are an amazing zero-waste alternative to bottled shampoo and conditioner. At Unwrapped Life, we love our solid shampoo bars and conditioner bars for a whole host of reasons! Check out our top eight reasons to make the switch to solid shampoo bars!

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Manifestation du mouvement des jeunes pour le climat, à Nantes, le 19 mars. LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Tribune. " C'est une triste chose de songer que la nature parle et que le genre humain n'écoute pas. " Ce constat que faisait déjà Victor Hugo en son tempsprend aujourd'hui un sens inédit.Alors que la crise due au Covid-19 menace nos vies, nous ne devons en effet pas oublier que nous sommes largement responsables de ce qui nous arrive.

Les crises de plus en plus nombreuses - le dérèglement climatique, l'effondrement de la biodiversité, la mauvaise santé des océans, l'épuisement général des ressources - nous montrent que nous ne pouvons plus continuer ainsi.

Ce mode de relation à la nature et au vivant, fondé sur la domination et l'exploitation, a déjà entraîné la destruction de 75 % des écosystèmes terrestres et de 40 % de l'environnement marin. Le rythme des extinctions est déjà de dix à cent fois plus rapide que le rythme moyen des dix derniers millions d'années ; et il s'accélère encore. Des huit millions d'espèces animales et végétales qui peupleraient notre planète, un million sont désormais menacées d'extinction. La situation est maintenant intenable.

Un droit fondamental pour l'humanité

C'est à une révolution que nous appelons : une refondation complète de notre rapport à la nature et au vivant. Ce n'est pas un luxe, mais une nécessité pour notre survie à tous, car la santé de l'humanité dépend de celle de notre environnement, comme de celle des espèces avec qui nous cohabitons sur la planète.

Il y a urgence à agir. Et agir, c'est d'abord prendre ensemble l'engagement de ne plus détruire les conditions d'habitabilité de notre maison commune. Pour nos générations actuelles, mais aussi pour les générations futures, car habiter dans de bonnes conditions sur notre planète est un droit fondamental pour l'humanité.

Il nous faut par conséquent consacrer les moyens nécessaires - et surtout avoir cette ambition - pour protéger et restaurer l'ensemble des écosystèmes, qu'ils soient naturels ou gérés. Dans le cadre des négociations de la convention sur la diversité biologique, les Etats travaillent à protéger, d'ici à 2030, 30 % de la surface du globe, surfaces terrestres comme maritimes. Nous ne partons heureusement pas de rien, puisque, avec les 252 sites du Patrimoine mondial naturel, les 714 réserves de biosphères et les 161 géoparcs mondiaux de l'Unesco, 6 % de la surface terrestre est déjà protégée.

" Il est temps que l'humanité comprenne que la Terre ne lui appartient pas : elle en dépend au contraire "

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L'appel à " une révolution complète de notre rapport à la nature et au vivant "

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TRIBUNE. Un collectif, parmi lesquelles Nicolas Hulot, Jane Goodall et Audrey Azoulay, appelle à s'organiser pour que cesse la destruction des conditions d'habitabilité de la planète, notre " maison commune ".

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14 upbeat tunes that will evoke faint memories of dancing with your friends in crowded nightclubs

Before COVID, Fiona Zanetti was spinning records at exclusive fashion week after parties all over the world. During quarantine, Fiona started live-streaming DJ sets on Instagram to share her music and undeniable skill with her 300k+ followers, giving them an opportunity to join her party from the comfort of their own homes. Fiona has now prepared an exclusive playlist for Document Journal of tracks she will spin as soon as she can DJ in public again.

"I gathered tracks that I envision playing when I daydream about going back to the decks and making the dancefloor sweat like it was 2019," explains Fiona, who was lucky enough to play a few sets in the summer of 2020, after the first lockdown was lifted in Europe and before the second wave hit. "I'm usually more of a tech-house and acid kind of girl, but it's the disco-funk for me that emulates the pure happiness and pleasure of sharing a moment of music with total strangers, so this playlist has a bit of both."

When asked about artists and tracks she finds herself going back to time after time, Mella Dee, Alan Braxe, and Fred Falke stand out as no-brainers. "I think there was never one performance where I played 'Techno Disco Tool' from Mella Dee or 'Intro' from Alan Braxe and Fred Falke and that the crowd didn't go crazy," she says. "Those are no-brainers, no matter the age, gender, country, or place. I love to play them cause they are sunny, happy songs with a lot of strength and never fail to make the party epic and draw a smile on people's faces."

But Fiona doesn't necessarily stick to just one genre. For her playlist, she explores other avenues of club music, such as Chicago house and even the acid techno normally found pumping through the speakers at a dark underground rave. "I love some good Chicago house classics to pop into a set, here we have 'God Made Me Phunky' by MD X-Spress," she says, adding that it has taken a toll on her to not play gigs. "I'm this close to going to an illegal rave right now. I wanted to add some good acid techno tracks I love, courtesy of Paranoid London and 999999999." Through Fiona's curation, we get an idea of what it will be like to see the DJ behind the decks later in 2021.

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Fiona, Paris fashion scene's favorite DJ, shares her top acid techno and house tracks

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14 upbeat tunes that will evoke faint memories of dancing with your friends in crowded nightclubs Before COVID, Fiona Zanetti was spinning records at exclusive fashion week after parties all over the world.

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Esther Theaker and Camille Bidault-Waddington's fashion portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2020 issue invites you to get lost in your thoughts

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At Flow we often write about unwinding, slowing down, and finding peace and quiet. But it's easier said than done in our hectic everyday lives filled with commitments, meetings, looking after the kids, organizing meals and responding to all those notifications. So these tips might just help you find some serenity in the brief in-between moments.
Here's how you can relax and find new energy for the rest of your day:

1. Talk less and listen more

Listening can be difficult because we're used to immediately sharing our thoughts through dialogue. But you'll find it much more calming to simply listen more often and not instantly participate in the conversation. It allows you the time to organize your own thoughts and form a deeper connection because you are truly listening to what the other person has to say, and not just thinking about what your response will be.

2. Turn the volume down (or off)

Switching on the radio as soon as you get in the car or putting in your headphones once you sit down on the train: these are automatic acts for many people. Yet being tuned in to constant sounds such as these can exhaust you because your brain has to work all the time. Naturally, your surroundings will never be completely quiet, but it will bring you a great deal more serenity to just listen to the cars passing you by on the highway, instead of music or talk shows.

3. Meditate

Meditating doesn't have to require a lot of effort and time; you can meditate in the five-minute break between meetings. All you need are a few minutes and silence. Time to focus on your breathing and clear your mind. And if you still find meditation difficult, just start by sitting still for five minutes and doing nothing: this way you become comfortable with yourself and meditation will follow naturally.

4. Find calm spaces

Don't go to busy shopping malls or cafes when it's your day off; look for places where you can enjoy some tranquility instead. For example, go to a museum or read a book in a quiet café or library. This way, you get the best of both worlds: you've gone out somewhere, but you're also exposed to a lot less stimuli.

5. Turn off your notifications

If you're constantly distracted by your phone, you're bound to feel agitated, no matter how peaceful or quiet your environment is. So turn off those notifications (or your phone completely) and think to yourself: I will only respond to my messages when I have the time and space to do so, and not when my phone demands my attention.

6. Go into nature more often

Nowhere will you experience as much serenity as in nature. The Japanese even have a special word for it: shinrin-yoku (forest bathing). This meditative form of walking is conquering the world simply because it has proven to be a good way to reduce stress and improve your health. And to find calm in daily life.

*Read more about slowing down in Flow 19 Days of Mindfulness.

Text Quirine Brouwer Translation Julia Gorodecky Photography Eduard Militaru / Unsplash.com

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At Flow we often write about unwinding, slowing down, and finding peace and quiet. But it's easier said than done in our hectic everyday lives filled with commitments, meetings, looking after the kids, organizing meals and responding to all those notifications. So these tips might just help you find some serenity in the brief in-between moments.

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If you want to live a more sustainable life, one place to start is with your clothes. For example, by washing that favorite jumper less often so as to make it last a little longer. Here are seven more tips.

1. Wash jeans inside out so that the color fades less quickly.

2. Buy good clothes hangers to avoid those horrid 'hanger bumps' and snagging on shoulders and necks caused by a poor-supporting hanger.

3. Does your shirt have a few small marks on it, but is otherwise perfectly okay to be worn again? Then try removing them by hand; the less you wash your garment in the machine, the longer it will last.

4. Keep your clothes in a cool, dark place. This way you prevent your favorite items from discoloration.

5. Tights last longer if you dip them in water and place them in the freezer for a while. This reduces the risk of getting a ladder while wearing them.

6. Let your clothes air-dry as much as possible, as opposed to putting them in the tumble dryer. Not only is this method better for your items, it's also better for your energy bill.

7. Don't hang woolen sweaters; fold them and place them in your closet instead. This way, they are less likely to lose shape.

Photography Yasmine Boheas/Unsplash.com

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If you want to live a more sustainable life, one place to start is with your clothes. For example, by washing that favorite jumper less often so as to make it last a little longer. Here are seven more tips. Wash jeans inside out so that the color fades less quickly.

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Eddie Prior, age twenty-one, with his black hair slick and his blue, blue eyes, enters this story with a great clatter. He is about to go down the Pavilion's long, curving staircase to the dance floor when the leather heels of his dancing shoes meet the polished parquet and he stumbles forward .

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Computer generated fashion models have been around for a few years, but some companies are now creating digital-only clothing for their virtual models to wear.

BBC Click's Spencer Kelly finds out more.

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By Helen Briggs
BBC environment correspondent

Scientists have made fabrics from polythene in a move they say could reduce plastic pollution and make the fashion industry more sustainable.

Polythene is a ubiquitous plastic, found in everything from plastic bags to food packaging.

The new textiles have potential uses in sports wear, and even high-end fashion, according to US researchers.

The plastic "cloth" is more environmentally-friendly than natural fibres, and can be recycled, they say.

Dr Svetlana Boriskina, from the department of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US, said plastic bags that nobody wants can be turned into high-performance fabrics with a low environmental footprint.

"There's no reason why the simple plastic bag cannot be made into fibre and used as a high-end garment," she told BBC News.

"You can go literally from trash to a high-performance garment that provides comfort and can be recycled multiple times back into a new garment."

The fabric is made from fibres of polythene woven on industrial looms into textiles that are designed to be comfortable to wear.

Crucially, the fibres are designed to allow water to escape, rather than repelling water like conventional polythene.

The researchers say the fabric is less damaging to the environment than the likes of wool, cotton, linen, silk, nylon and polyester, and can be washed in cold water, further reducing the environmental footprint.

The plastic can be dyed in different colours before being woven into fabric. Because it is made up of only one type of plastic - polythene - it can be recycled into new garments time and time again.

The fabric has potential for use in sportswear, such as trainers, vests and leggings, they say.

In the long-term, it could also have applications as a high-performance space suit, engineered to be protect against cosmic radiation.

Commenting on the study, published in Nature Sustainability, Dr Mark Sumner of the University of Leeds said it remained to be seen if such a fabric might catch on.

He said the typical mechanical properties of polythene - such as strength and melting temperature - tend to limit its use in textiles, as does its very low moisture absorption.

"The fundamental challenge I see with this development, as we have seen with many other 'new fibre' developments, is how well the fibre aligns with comfort, feel and drape requirements of the consumer," he said.

"If the fabric feels waxy, or stiff and lacks comfort then consumers won't buy the product, and therefore, the fibre has limited use for clothing."

The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world. Textile manufacturing consumes huge amounts of water and generates millions of tonnes of waste, as well as 5-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

Washing and drying clothes often consumes even more energy and water than the production phase.

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