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33 Outfits That Look 10/10 Styled With Trainers
Gone are the days when trainers were solely reserved for athletic endeavours (Read: your commute, whenever it resumes). Over the past few years, sneakers have broken free from their gym-bag bounds and have taken on new sartorial meaning. It all started when Adidas Stan Smiths became part of the It-girl uniform. Then Vans proved to be all the rage. Fast-forward a few seasons and we had the pared-back likes of Veja and Superga to obsess over. Most recently, though, “dad” trainers have been clogging up our Instagram feeds—something that looks set to continue the further into 2021 we find ourselves. Regardless of which trainer style you’ve pledged your allegiance to, there’s one thing we can all agree on: We’re so glad trainers are here to stay. However, thei...
Take a Seat: Mexico’s León is the Sexier MkVIII Golf We Can’t Have
Just a few weeks after the last Volkswagen Golf MkVII rolled out of the Puebla, Mexico plant—and we found out the new MkVIII model wouldn’t be coming Stateside—the fourth-generation Seat León has arrived in the Latin-American country. The Seat León and Volkswagen Golf have long shared their architecture, powertrains and interior design, and this sophisticated-looking new generation is no exception. It is based on the new eighth-generation Golf that America won’t be getting (sigh), making the León the closest we’ll get to the beloved regular-grade German hatchback—both literally and figuratively. Make no mistake, we’re happy we’re getting the MkVIII-based Golf R and GTI on our shores, but in Mexico, where VW has all not confirmed the arrival of the Golf VIII, t...
Mercedes-Benz’s New S-Class Goes Anti-Valet to Show Off Self-Parking Feature
Look, we get it, valets are people, too. Most probably go about their business schlepping your car from a convenient waypoint near an entrance to a venue or restaurant to a faraway parking space with the utmost care and caution. But you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, haven’t you? If not—how?—there’s an iconic sequence involving a Ferrari 250 GT California, a pair of speed-hungry valets, and a joyride that would make any car owner go out of their way to park their ride themselves. Mercedes-Benz has tapped into that protective instinct with a new commercial for the 2021 S-Class sedan titled, appropriately, “Valet Guys.” You can, and probably just did, watch the commercial via the YouTube clip above. So, we’ll spare you the explanation about the se...
Saweetie Says She’s ‘Single’ Amid Quavo Breakup Rumors
She also confirmed a Demi Lovato collab is on the way. After rumors that she and Quavo had broken up, Saweetie set the record straight. The rapper confirmed she was “single” via Twitter on Friday (March 19), saying she’s suffered “too much betrayal and hurt behind the scenes” and that being publicly showered with presents, from a Birkin to a Bentley, can’t heal the pain. But she assured her followers that she’s walked away from their relationship of more than two years “with a deep sense of peace and freedom.” “I’m single. I’ve endured too much betrayal and hurt behind the scenes for a false narrative to be circulating that degrades my character. Presents don’t band aid scars and the love isn&...
I Just Tried the Trending French Face Mask That Celebs Swear By
Ever wondered whether a new beauty launch or trending product is truly worth the hype? If so, you’re in the right place. I Just Tried… is our beauty column where we test out everything from new formulations to cult classics to find out whether they’re really worth your money. Oh, and we’ll answer the most-searched-for questions so you don’t have even have to ask. When it comes to affordable skincare, there’s one country that always gets it right: France. In fact, whether I’m interviewing a dermatologist or a celebrity about their skincare habits, there’s one common denominator: People with great skin have a plethora of French pharmacy brands in their beauty stashes. So when I got wind that yet another beauty product was trending on TikTo...
9 of the Coolest Women I Follow Just Shared Their Spring Buys With Me
Ah, spring. It is finally, finally here. And not in that faux way when the weather teases us during February, which eventually turns to rain and leads us to pulling out the puffer again (even though you’d already packed it away). But thanks to the roadmap out of lockdown coinciding with better weather and longer days, you could say that our spring fashion senses are tingling. There’s a lot of talk about how we’ll all re-emerge into some semblance of socialising and what we’ll wear. Personally, I’d advise taking it slow. You don’t want to exhaust all that pent-up fashion energy and have nothing left for summer. But you might be itching to get back out there in a full ball gown, even if you’re just sitting outside your local coffe...
My Mum Is 46 Years Older Than Me, But We Both Use These 8 Skincare Products
So that’s kind of what inspired this piece. Over the holidays, I spent about three full months in Arizona where my parents retired, and in that course of time, I recommended tons of different products to my mum. I’m consistently gifted more products than I can humanly try as part of my job, so to get a second opinion on new launches or just whenever my mom was in need of something new or extra special, I’d set a few things on her vanity for her to test-drive—some she loved and some she, well, didn’t. Here, we’re celebrating 10 skincare products that are so effective and fabulous that we both love, use, and recommend them despite the 46-year age difference in our skin. Below, I asked my mum to share some insight into why she loves each of the all-star formulas,...
9 Outfits You Can Re-Create With Classic Pieces You Already Own
Over the last few months, we’ve been calling upon you, our lovely readers, to tell us exactly what it is you’re looking for from Who What Wear during these strange times. Alongside plenty of calls for fashion-based escapism, wardrobe basics and at-home beauty, we also got inundated with requests for how to mix up your style without spending a penny. Well, you ask and it shall be given. It’s all too easy to become apathetic to those old faithfuls that have been hanging in your wardrobes for years. Once they’ve lost the shiny appeal of newness, they can fade into the background and become part of the sartorial wallpaper. However, in our experience, all these items need is a little re-contextualising, something to take them out of their stagnancy and help them to ...
2021 Toyota Camry vs. 2021 Hyundai Sonata: Freshened Four-Door Fight
See the Full Model Overview There remains a strong offering of midsize sedans on the market today, despite the unwavering juggernaut known as the SUV craze. While American automakers have all but abandoned ship, manufacturers like Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, Subaru, Mazda, Kia, and Nissan continue to roll out new models and update existing ones. In Toyota’s case, it capped 2020 by touting its Camry as the best-selling passenger car in the U.S. for the 19th consecutive year, with sales topping 294,000. As always, the Camry faces a steady lineup of challengers. Hyundai launched a new Sonata for 2020 with a fresh, stylish design intended to punt the midsize sedan into the heart of the conversation. Toyota, for its part, refreshed the three-year-old Camry for 2021, which encompassed some ext...
The New USPS Van Looks Incredibly Dorky for a Reason
The United States Postal Service’s Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) may have been built by the same company that built the sleek F-14 Tomcat but it’s hardly a looker. Somehow, its replacement, the new Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) is even more homely looking. Especially when compared to Amazon’s Rivian Prime or FedEx’s BrightDrop EV600 vans. Government program gone wrong? Actually, there’s a very good reason as to why the NGDV looks the way it does. See all 5 photos Simply put, it’s because the postal service asked for it to look this way. The proposal by the USPS for its NGDV program included more than six separate documents with over 76 pages of requirements and testing procedures for automakers interested in building the NGDV. As...
6 Grown-Up Ways To Wear a Mini Skirt This Year
Over the last few years, a subtle alchemy has occurred, both in my personal wardrobe and the wardrobes of fashion editors across the land. From season to season, month to month, hemlines have gradually been making their way southwards, creeping past the thigh and heading towards the knee. Rewind to last summer and it seemed as though everyone was wearing midis and maxis, and a large proportion of the high-street’s dresses and skirts stopped mid-calf. The hemline index theory states that hemlines tend to rise and fall with stock prices, so perhaps it isn’t such a coincidence considering the current state of affairs (we’re looking at you Brexit and Covid). Whichever way you look at it, it seems as though the poor miniskirt has well and truly been sidelined in...
How Leomie Anderson Continues to Defy the Model Stereotype
Launching a business at any time is quite the feat, but launching a business during a pandemic? Model Leomie Anderson isn’t mad, but she is exceptionally hard-working, and such a task requires that kind of stamina. Before the pandemic, the longest she’d been in her home city of London was four weeks, she tells me. In fact, she hadn’t spent a full year in the capital in the past 12 years, as she was so often travelling for work. With high-profile gigs ranging from Redken commercials to L’Officiel covers, she clearly isn’t afraid of grafting at the behest of brands or magazines, but like most of us grounded in the UK, it gave her time to focus on other things, such as the relaunch of her multifaceted brand LAPP. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that she...
