Online culture has had an incredible effect on fashion trends. It used to take a trend about 20 years to complete a cycle: introduction, rise, peak, decline, and obsolescence. However, in 2025, this cycle has been sped up incredibly due to several factors. Trends can be quickly introduced and adopted due to social media, online…
Cincinnati, Ohio — Ross Rohling and Carlee Berns are like any other couple in their 20s. But what is unusual is that they met in person. “When we tell people that we met at a singles event, they’re like, ‘No way, they still have those?’ I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, you should go,’” Berns told CBS…
If you’re designing mobile apps today, you’re designing for a generation that doesn’t remember a world without smartphones. Gen Z grew up on social feeds and mobile-first experiences. Millennials watched that shift happen in real time. Both generations are mobile-native, but how they interact with technology—and what they expect from it—differs in ways that directly…
Newsweek Illustration It’s sometimes hard to believe that the turn of the millennium was a quarter of a century ago. In many ways, life felt vastly different back then—the internet was still in its relative infancy, phones were used to make calls, and X was just a letter in the alphabet. It was an age…
Ilana Dunn didn’t set out to become a dating coach. Like many of us, she endured years of trials and tribulations in relationships and relied on dating apps to help find her person. Dunn, now the host of the Seeing Other People podcast with nearly 50,000 subscribed listeners, had worked for several years in the…
Travel experiences platform Klook has launched a campaign in Hong Kong that’s anything but conventional. There’s no celebrity endorsement, no picture-perfect lifestyle visuals, and no curated itineraries. Instead, “Go Wild with Travel” features a goose and some AI. The campaign launched this week with a fake out-of-home stunt that showed the goose soaring across iconic…
They don’t want toupee for hair transplants. Balding millennial men are nixing pricey trips to Turkey — preferring to rock retro rugs instead. Reverting back to the wiggy ways of their forefathers, 30-somethings with receding hairlines are resurrecting the once-démodé toupee — in a comeback of John Travolta-like proportions. Millennial men with hair loss are reviving the…
From chunky sneakers to long tube socks, Generation Z has brought in an influx of new fashion trends. But one millennial woman told Newsweek that it has finally gone too far, describing one Gen Z staple as “dumb.” Heather Nianouris, 43, has done her best to stay in touch with the latest trends and is…
Only about 10 per cent of workers outside the government sector in Hong Kong have benefited from flexible work arrangements, according to official figures, with some experts saying local companies have been slow to adopt such a policy over cost and productivity concerns. Allen Cheung, who works in insurance and is in his late thirties,…
Plenty of millennial fashion staples have already fallen victim to the curse of Generation Z (people born between 1997 and 2012). The likes of skinny jeans and ankle socks have been rejected, but so it seems, have the dreaded high heels. Back in the heyday of the 2010s, millennial women would don their favorite heels…