🇲🇦 Morocco: After Morocco reaches the knockout stage in their first-ever Women's World Cup, the world is in awe watching history in the making,
👀 Lizzo: After the news broke yesterday, the internet is still on fire as more is being uncovered beyond the original lawsuit. Social media platforms have A LOT to say about Lizzo following her response to allegations. The claims of sexual harassment & a hostile work environment are said to be "false" and "outrageous."
🎤 #Lollapalooza: The music stans are out in Chicago as music festival Lollapalooza kicks off today. While fans are excited for headliners Billie Eilish, Karol G, Kendrick Lamar, & Lana Del Ray, most of the buzz is around South Korean k-pop groups TXT & NewJeans.
Boys Who Sew & "Sew Bros" 🧵
What it is: A growing community on the TikTok is helping to rewrite the gender stereotypes that come with making clothes. The hashtag #BoysWhoSew has 53.5 million global views, up from 51.5 million (or +2,220%) in the past 12 months. What else? #Sewing has reached 20.5 billion — yes, billion — global views, a 90% increase from 9.7 billion just a year prior. The sewing revolution comes on the tails of young men wanting to tailor their own wardrobe and, in the process, they're rewriting the narrative of what men should like and enjoy. Historically, women have dominated the world of clothing for centuries, if not millennia. Many strenuously made clothes for themselves and their families by hand up until the 1860s when sewing machines emerged. A familiar, gender-based division of labor, by which men specialize in market work and women in domestic work, followed and has since been hard to shake. This era of "sew bros" has not only taught men the value of their clothes, but that their craft is chipping away at gender binaries. Sewing = agency.
What brands can learn: Brands, this trend speaks to our society's growing desire to move beyond gender barriers and freely create. Individuals not only seek mediums to self-express, but want to customize the experience too. 'Fit checks take on a whole new meaning when the clothes on your back were made by yours truly. And with men at the forefront of this sewing revolution, it's a reminder that expression is fluid and gender stereotypes are out of style. This is all to say that typically female spaces like fashion, beauty, & home require diverse representation. Talent & creativity shouldn't have barriers and #BoysWhoSew proves that.
Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4
📄 Dating apps are out & "date-me-docs" are in. Long, résumé-like dating bios reminiscent of personal ads from the past might be the next meaningful alternative to endless Tinder swiping.
♻️ Have you heard of “EcoWarrior” Barbie? Don't worry, she's fake but Mattel's outrage isn't.
📱 Instagram is potentially rolling out a label to identify images “generated by Meta AI” — a legally protective measure as the company begins to launch a suite of AI tools
🙃 We've got a generational crisis on our hands, because Gen Zers already worry they’re too old to understand Gen Alpha’s memes.
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