“Wedding season” is often associated with summer, but the most popular months to say “I do” actually fall later in the year. Maybe it’s the foliage or the welcome relief from the heat, but fall weddings are definitely a thing. While the colorful leaves make for stunning wedding photos, finding fall wedding guest dresses can…
Yet another cool-girl fashion collaboration has entered the chat. This time, model Alexa Chung is celebrating her long-standing relationship with Madewell — 15 years after their first collaboration — with a vintage-inspired holiday collection that pays homage to the East Village and East London. “We’ve been on a journey together, me and Madewell,” Chung tells…
When your phone screen cracks or your laptop battery dies, what do you do? For years, most people just bought a new one. Companies made products hard to open, limited spare parts, and canceled warranties if you tried to fix things yourself. Now, thanks to consumer advocates, new laws, and changing business strategies, that’s starting…
As we trade in our trendy white tank tops for warmer layers to keep us cozy on chilly days, we’re keeping an eye out for the best sweaters on the market, from chunky knits to turtlenecks. One style in particular is a fall staple (and obsession): the cardigan. The button-front sweater has been a longtime transitional-weather go-to,…
Mars’ entrance into Scorpio on September 22nd hard launches cuffing season and we’ll opt to link up with others and form alliances that speak to us on a deeper level. The time for superficial flings has ended; now we are merging with one another and taking charge of our lives. We are the captains of…
When Vibram’s infamous FiveFinger shoes first became popular in the early 2000s, you couldn’t have paid me to wear them. I was a Converse-loving, Hot Topic-shopping high schooler who couldn’t have been further from their target market. Today, as a fashion editor living in New York City, I’m even more removed from the brand’s usual…
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$850 billion. That’s what retail and e-commerce returns will cost in 2026, generating 8.4 billion pounds of landfill waste — and a surprising share of it involves products that worked perfectly. They just didn’t look the way people expected. About 22% of consumers return items because the product looked different in person than it did…
At least once a week — let’s face it, at least once every day — the writers and editors across Refinery29 discuss the latest and greatest products in our lives, from some cool new water bottle that’s been absolutely saving our lives to a state-of-the-art sleep product that’s changed our eight hours for the better. And gatekeeping isn’t in our vocabulary, so…
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