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A Woman In Texas Has Died From Flesh-Eating Bacteria Following Hurricane Harvey

A 77-year-old Texas woman has died from a "flesh-eating" bacterial infection, The Houston Chronicle reports. Nancy Reed contracted the infection after she fell in Harvey’s contaminated floodwater and...

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Getty Is Banning Some Digitally Altered Photos & It's A Step In The Right...

Getty Images iStock has emailed its contributors requesting "that you do not submit to us any creative content depicting models whose body shapes have been retouched to make them look thinner or...

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Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh Hefner Dies At 91

Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolised by...

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What Male & Female Relationships Look Like In The Caribbean

“Curaçao is an island of paradoxes where the cliché of macho culture exists alongside strong, independent women and pink coloured skies,” Curaçao-born and raised photographer Gilleam Trapenberg...

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The 4-Step Guide To Finding Your Perfect Job

The dream job. Does it exist? And if it does, how do I find it?Two questions that we’ve probably all asked ourselves at several points during our lives. Considering we spend an estimated 12 years of...

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10 Films You Need To See This Autumn (That We're Already Obsessed With)

The BFI London Film Festival is back and while it might not have the glamour of Venice and Cannes, there’s no arguing with the incredibly rich and diverse offering of our own homegrown film fest (of...

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These Are The Most Complained-About TV Adverts Of 2017

Many of us may spend more time online than watching the box these days, but it's TV advertising that irks us more than ads on any other medium, according to new figures – and there's one in particular...

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The Host Of The MTV EMAs Has Been Revealed (& Tells R29 Why They're Excited)

Hosting the MTV Europe Music Awards is a huge box to tick off any pop superstar's bucket list. Katy Perry's done it, Ed Sheeran's done it, Christina Aguilera's done it – and even Robbie Williams back...

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The Trailer For Blue Planet II Is The Most Incredible Thing You'll Watch Today

There are few things as awe-inspiring as high-definition nature documentaries – last year's Planet Earth II had us hooked – and a new BBC sequel to another astonishing nature series, Blue Planet, looks...

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This Novel Promises There's No Wrong Way To Be A Mother

Celeste Ng 's latest novel, Little Fires Everywhere, is a meditation on the unspoken pains and contradictions of motherhood. Its story unspools all the raw, knotted tensions that go into making a...

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The Best Photos From Around The World This Week

It’s never been easier to keep up with what’s going on in the world. The news is everywhere – in our Facebook feeds, on the morning commute, during that lazy half hour before you switch off the TV and...

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Olivier Rousteing's SS18 Balmain Show Reflects On The Dreams Of His...

Held in the opulent Palais Garnier, the opera house in the heart of Paris, this afternoon's SS18 Balmain show was a celebration of dreams becoming reality, as creative director Olivier Rousteing...

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Tindstagramming Is The Creepy New Dating Trend You Need To Know

It's no secret that digital dating makes it easier to treat each other like dirt. The lack of accountability on dating apps and sites means we're ghosting, breadcrumbing, benching, zombieing,...

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How I Got Back Into The Dating Game After A Long Hiatus

I deleted all of my dating apps for the first time ever around this time last year. I was completely burnt out on dating, since I’d been treating my love life as a sprint to the finish line (a.k.a....

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Pinterest Searches Are Up 600% For Our New Favourite Hairstyle

When Pinterest's latest data revealed that the search for 'curtain fringes' had gone up 600% this year alone, we can't say we were surprised. The most elegant haircut of the '60s and '70s, the heavy,...

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Everything You Need To Know About Next Week's Tube Strike

There's a pretty major Tube strike happening in London next week, in case you hadn't heard, and there's a good chance your commute will be affected if you rely on the Underground to get to work in the...

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There’s Been A Surprising Twist In London’s House Prices Saga

At long last, things are looking up (ever so slightly) for aspiring homeowners in London. We rejoiced when we found out that asking prices for homes in the capital dropped recently – and now we're...

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Why Lipstick Is The Only Makeup I Wear

I think I have a different relationship to makeup than most people do. To be honest, it just wasn’t ever on my mind until I started to work in film. My mum doesn’t wear any — she’s very much a kind of...

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A Beginner's Guide To The Chakras

In the increasingly socially pervasive worlds of yoga, meditation, healing, spirituality et al, the word 'chakra' pops up quite a bit. Great, if you know what it means; less so, perhaps, if you’re not...

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Why I Got A "Designer Vagina" After My Divorce

Chrissy is a 47-year-old nurse clinician living in Missouri who decided to get labiaplasty and vaginoplasty. The following story was told to Refinery29 and edited for length and clarity.Before getting...

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