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Doing yoga as a brown person in an all-white yoga studio can be a pretty uncomfortable experience – more uncomfortable than the yoga poses themselves. I can handle standing out because of the colour of my skin, but it’s the inexplicit spirituality element of it all that puts me at unease. Rolling up my mat and catching the eye of the bright blue eyed, blonde-haired instructor who gives me a knowing (almost reciprocal) look while saying ‘namaste’ makes me feel a bit off.
‘Namaste’ doesn’t mean much to me because I’m not Indian, nor am I Hindu. I know it’s a uniform thing for yoga instructors to say but having heard plenty of others outside of the studio say this to me, it gets me every time. Most days, someone makes the assumption that I’m Indian and asks me just that. But I was born in Melbourne, and am a Sri Lankan Australian who grew up Buddhist.
“I liked the challenge,” said Bibhu Mohapatra of designing a collection during a pandemic. The need to find creative solutions, the designer said, brought to mind the days when he was dreaming up his first collection back during the recession of 2008 in a shoebox apartment. Following that thread, he carefully studied his archive, pulling and refining classics. Resources might have been limited, but Mohapatra made no compromises on quality, inside or out. “We are doing fewer pieces, but everything is made to last forever,” he stressed.
The designer and his collection felt freer and lighter for fall. Thankfully the main drag on the line-up had little impact on the actual garments. This was an overcomplicated and perhaps unnecessary backstory about two relationships: between the poet Langston Hughes and arts patron A’Lelia Walker during the Harlem Renaissance; and that of the painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge in late 1900s Vienna. (The latter inspired a caftan with beaut
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By far the buzziest food trend of the past two decades is acing the farm-to-table test. You know exactly what you eat. The diet of your grass-fed beef, the labor that toiled over your coffee and chocolate, the names of the farmers who shuttled your bell peppers to the market every Saturday morning all of it becomes essential information, a social responsibility, a marker of your health and wellness (and, of course, socioeconomic status). Preservatives are, apparently, out. “Ugly produce” is in. Sure, you might know about the chicken that laid your eggs and the pig that became your bacon. But when’s the last time you gave a second glance to the bottles on your spice rack?