The Glossy Beauty Podcast looks back at beauty in 2025
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify As 2025 comes to a close, the Glossy Beauty team — Sara Spruch-Feiner, Lexy Lebsack and Emily Jensen — came together on the Glossy Beauty Podcast to reflect on some of the defining themes that shaped the beauty industry this year, and their own reporting....
FullBeauty’s deal with Destination XL, the revival of Matches Fashion, and the acceleration of fashion M&A
This week, a look at the merger between FullBeauty and Destination XL, and the revival of Matches Fashion, as well as what drove all the fashion mergers and acquisitions this past year. In the last week, there have been not one, but two big fashion deal announcements.This is a member-exclusive...
Everything Is Steakhouse Now
Steakhouses never went away in the United States, but recently they’ve taken over the dining landscape. Now, everything is steakhouse. The continued cultural cachet of martinis, olives, and shrimp cocktail: steakhouse. The prevalence of tableside carts that turn all kinds of dishes into...
Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane
The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, according to authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget”. The study, published in Nature, is the most comprehensive analysis yet of the global hydrogen cycle, showing how the gas moves between the...
Guest post: How to steer EVs towards the road of ‘mass adoption’
Electric vehicles (EVs) now account for more than one-in-four car sales around the world, but the next phase is likely to depend on government action – not just technological change. That is the conclusion of a new report from the Centre for Net Zero, the Rocky Mountain Institute and the...Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted “to prevent immoral activities.” No additional...
HBCU Alumna builds fashion brand celebrating school pride and heritage
Credits: HBCU Logo Third-generation HBCU alumna Cheylaina Fultz has turned her vision of culturally meaningful apparel into a growing fashion brand, HBCU Legacy Fashion, which spotlights the pride and heritage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The concept emerged during...
5 stylish designer Christmas trees in London
Claridge’s Christmas tree, designed by Daniel Lee, Burberry Credits: Claridge’s In Pictures This holiday season, fashion brands and designers aren’t just content with taking over the windows at luxury department stores but instead dressing Christmas trees for luxury hotels across London....
The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake
In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids’ homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other’s minds. Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are...