"Our goal was to set out a mission to gather all the sneaker fanatics in Nigeria, with Lagos being our first target and make it a gathering of people who love sneakers, who also view sneakers beyond just a pair of footwears. To us, it is a culture," says Sneaker Fest founder, Ikemesit Baadblood. Research and market statistics have revealed that the world and indeed, Nigeria has a lot of sneakerheads.

May 30, 2024 7:41 AM EDT Sol de Janeiro’s spray fragrances, like its Cheirosa 68 (Brazilian jasmine & pink dragonfruit) and Cheirosa 62 (vanilla & salted caramel), were the viral beauty product of 2023, generating 850 million TikTok views. Videos and memes by influencers helped triple sales at the brand, a majority-owned subsidiary of Groupe L’Occitane, to more than $1 billion. That’s by design: the company upped their marketing to work with more than 6,000 influencers this year.

4. 10. 2021 | Student Life Long story short—yes! Study skills, as the term hints, are skills which means that it’s something that can certainly be learnt. As for a definition: Study skills are powerful and practical methods how to make studying more effective. The goal isn’t to study harder but to study smarter. Study skills include various methods like specific memory techniques that make remembering new information much easier and also time management, creating study plans, psychology behind fighting procrastination, tricks how to approach exams, effective note-taking and overall adopting good study habits that are crucial for success.

October 31, 2014 4:17 PM EDT Katy Perry may have won Halloween with her Cheeto costume, but Taylor Swift’s get-up is pretty good too. She dressed as a winged unicorn, or as she called it in an Instagram post, a “pegacorn.” For those who don’t know, pegacorn is a portmanteau of “pegasus” and “unicorn.” Tay-Tay’s been super busy this week, so props to her for still finding the time to dress up and celebrate the holiday.

Over lunch nearly 20 years ago, approaching the end of her life and feeling ready to speak of her experiences for the first time, my great-aunt Hélène Podliasky shared with me the story of her escape from the Nazis. I had known she was a member of the Resistance, a collection of multiple underground networks fighting in France against the German occupation from 1940 to the liberation in 1945. But I did not know about Hélène’s arrest and deportation to Ravensbrück, nor about her escape, with eight other women, from a Nazi labor camp.