15 White Elephant Gifts Under $40 for Every Kind of Swap

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On the surface, white elephant gift exchanges seem plain and simple. Everyone brings a gift, you swap them, fight for the coolest one, and (hopefully) go home with the best gift of all. But in our experience, these Dirty Santa swaps require much more effort than you might initially think. For starters, who is your audience? With this question comes a slew of others like should your gift be funny? Risqué? Totally normal? On top of that, how much do you have to spend? Over 100? Under 10? As for the final question: What in the world are you supposed to get? read more

J.Crew’s Olympia Gayot on the Items That Have Achieved Cult Status

Olympia Gayot, J.Crew’s head of women’s and kids design, knows a thing or two about color. Prior to joining J.Crew in 2010, Gayot attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she studied fine art and painting. After graduating, Gayot painted commissions and simultaneously designed and styled for brands on the side. 

Gayot brings her love of art and color composition into designing bold trousers, coats, and everything in between at J.Crew. “I’m always going to gallery openings or shows to keep myself interested in what’s going on and aware of what’s happening in the contemporary world,” Gayot said. read more

Everything I Wore For My First Diwali In The UK

For me, Diwali (also known as the festival of lights) was the time when all my friends were home for the holidays and I got to reconnect with my people. Last year’s festival in the city of Lucknow in northern India was one of my favourites. My friends and I wore full traditional outfits, equipped with sarees and Bollywood-esque glamour, to celebrate our first Diwali since the lifting of pandemic restrictions. I lit lamps and candles and decorated my apartment with star-shaped lights. We filled our fridge with sweets and nuts (as most Indian households do during Diwali) and the food put me in a spice-induced daze. I had milk sweets, pani puris, samosas and paneer masala with naan. I wore a red saree and my grandmother’s necklaces, accessorised with silver and black opal rings. There was laughter, dancing and Bollywood music. Just thinking about it makes me miss home. read more

Kylie Jenner’s Sheer Cutout Look Is a Dress and Catsuit in One

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Kylie Jenner stepped out on the arm of Mugler Creative Director Casey Cadwallader at Business of Fashion’s BoF 500 Gala, which took place during Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 1. Jenner, 25, has been making the rounds at shows and presentations, debuting a string of high fashion looks put together by stylists Mackenzie and Alexandra Grandquist, beginning on Sept. 28 in the Acne Studios front row. read more

How Yasmin Sewell Launched the World’s First Healing Perfume and Lifestyle Brand

Nothing is more empowering than being in tune with the evolving energies that surround us daily. For Yasmin Sewell—the creative genius and founder of Vyrao, the world’s first-ever well-being brand to fuse energetic healing with master perfumery—it’s more than just being in tune with energies. It’s about using them to heal. With a lifelong passion for well-being and energetic connection as well as training in integrative quantum medicine and Reiki, Sewell fused her passions into a brand that could truly foster powerful emotional healing through a bespoke olfactory experience.  read more