6 best products for a healthy self tan.

Many of us want a bronzed look, but achieving a safe summer glow can be tricky. We want to look gently kissed by the sun, not smacked in the face by a metallic tangerine. So check out our favorite products this season for sun-less (and safer) color.

Eco SPF 30+ FACE
Just because you’re not directly baking in the sun, doesn’t mean you should forgo a daily SPF. Eco FACE receives a #1 …

ExclusiveEnter to win a free Summer Luxe Edition of The Box on Refinery29!

Our exclusive EcoSalon shopping must-have, the curated eco product assortment known as The Box, sold out in 11 hours. We’re thinking it’s probably because we offered $600 worth of sensational summer eco-goodies for just $99! We did bank one very highly coveted Box, however, for a Refinery29 giveaway. Yes, I said we have one Box left you can get for free. Just follow this link to Refinery29 and sign up for the giveaway. The winner will …

Collaborations for environment and sustainability abound this summer.

Despite contributing to a whole lot of fast fashion, the fashion collaboration phenomenon is far from losing any steam. Teaming designers with retailers like Missoni for Target and the hot off-the-press announcement of Versace for H&M, has even hardened ethical fashion editors like us tempted. Seems like everyone is getting in on the hard-to-resist concept. Happily, that also includes a new wave of partnerships between high profile brands and environmental causes.

Louise Bourgeois sewed memories together with fabric from her life.

It is not an image that I am seeking.  It’s not an idea. It is an emotion you want to recreate, an emotion of wanting, of giving and of destroying. Louise Bourgeois

For the past two months, there was an exhibit  up at Cheim & Read‘s New York gallery that was worth a trip to Manhattan. Louise Bourgeois’s fabric “drawings,” assembled from personal objects such as discarded …

Made by hand in small batches in Brooklyn, NY.

Taking inspiration from things like native ritual medicine, Americana, outdated lore and geography, D.S. & Durga’s handcrafted perfumes and colognes make us swoon.

I was sent a few samples a year or so ago and just opened their Coriander for the first time to wear and was smitten.

Green Leaf, cracked Coriander seed and Magnolia are married into the most lush scent that’s hardly describable except to say it’s a floral meets almost masculine scent with the balance of both perfect. The minute …

ColumnWant to have an iconic summer look beachside? Follow these tips.

Sun-bleached blondes with beach tousled hair, smoldering black eyes and pouty nude lips captured a time in the ’60s when curvy women in bikinis lit up movie screens. Over the decades, Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Schiffer have been inspirational icons for this playfully seductive summer look – one that will never go out of style.
GUESS’s Spring 2011 campaign reignited the part of me that would love to go wild with a box of peroxide, a …

Welcome to ねぶたの家 ワ・ラッセ), a museum and center for creative culture in the heart of Aomori.

In 2002, having only studied Japanese architecture in books, Todd MacAllen and his creative partner at Molo Design, Stephanie Forsythe, began what started as yet another residential space in Aomori, Japan and transformed it into a creative community space that goes to the heart of the city, and taps into the very marrow of the nation’s culture.

It was certainly an auspicious start. The pair competed for the project in …

It’s time to talk about physician-assisted suicide as a conscious choice.

We’re used to talking about choice. The choice to have a child, eat meat, recycle, marry. As responsible, conscious people we make decisions every day. But when it comes to end of life choices, as a society we’re a bit behind.

Jack Kevorkian’s recent death brought back a flood of memories for me. He was my grandmother’s hero. While she was admittedly—and quite proudly—a touch twisted, I happen to agree with her …