The Lesser of Two Evils: On the Closure of Fast Fashion Factories By Linh Nguyen | April 19th, 2020 Photo by Firdaus Roslan on Unsplash A couple of nights ago, as I was scrolling through my favorite app Tik Tok, I stumbled across a video talking about how the coronavirus has forced many fast fashion brand factories in Asia to close. If you follow our magazine, you might have seen an article…
How Covid-19 Raises the Discussion on Veganism By ANNARITA MARINARO| April 16, 2020 Cover Photo by Ben Cohen On March 21, 2020, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the animal rights organisation, posted a picture on their social media claiming that, “…COVID-19 would not exist in a vegan world.” According to PETA, up to 75% of the new diseases are so-called ‘Zoonoses’: infections that…
The Perks of Learning Dutch By Stephanie Bui – April 14th, 2020 Cover photo: Photo by Margot Polinder on Unsplash The Netherlands is a multicultural country that embraces a multitude of different cultures and ethnicities. Therefore, one normally does not feel the urge to learn the native language and instead stays in their comfort zone with English. Let’s get the cat out of the bag: Dutch is not known for being…
COVAID Africa: Non-Profit Organization Holds Benefit Concert on Youtube By CLOÉ SANNA and JOSEPHINE SYLVESTRE | April 14, 2020 With the goal to raise money for Doctors Without Borders, professionals and students have joined forces in this uncertain time to create a digital series of star-studded concerts on YouTube. In the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, positive initiatives to help fight the virus around the world are arising. COVAID Africa is…
The Air Fryer: Student Friendly or Not? By Sebastian Hegmar | April 12th, 2020 Cover Photo by Philips I bet that you have either seen or heard about the air fryer by now. You know, that thing that can magically fry food without any oil? I’ve seen them advertised on daytime television (don’t judge) and across the internet for a while now and I obviously had to get one. They’re marketed as a…
How the High Fashion Industry is Helping to Beat the COVID-19 Pandemic By Cyrine Ettriki | April 11th, 2020 Cover photo: Photo by Nick Bolton on Unsplash The coronavirus pandemic has impacted our daily lives drastically. It poses a challenge to hospitals everywhere which struggle to keep up with the rapid surge of patient admissions. In order to help, numerous fashion labels have responded by focussing their production lines on manufacturing masks…
