How Ethical is Your Denim? – Part One: The Denim Industry
Denim is an evergreen fashion trend, from jeans and skirts to the classic denim jacket. But how many of us consider the environmental impact of our favourite denim outfits?
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Sustainable Salons: Innovative Solutions for Better Recycling
An appointment at the hairdressers produces a lot of waste, but a more collective approach is unlocking many creative solutions that allow us to reuse those leftovers.
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An Award-Winning Greyscale Workspace: The Clemens Strobl Winery
Minimal design and a reduced colour palette make this north Austrian winery a beautiful yet understated workplace.
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A New Cultural Hub on the Gold Coast: The Opening of the HOTA Gallery
With the design inspired by a painting of an Australian landscape, the new HOTA Gallery on the Gold Coast is set to become a cultural hub of both local and international art.
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Black Identity and Power: Emmanuel Taku’s Mixed Media Portraiture
Ghana-born artist Emmanuel Taku creates ethereal mixed-media portraits exploring Black identity and unity.
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A Timeless Spiral of Glass: The Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet
A glass spiral is now home to a museum for luxury swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, showcasing intricate timepieces within an innovative building.
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Living on the Water: i29 architect’s Floating Home for the Schoonschip Village
Rising sea levels and high-density housing needs are both obstacles for those who dream of a relaxed life on the waterfront, but this project could be the solution to both.
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Petit Pli: Clothes that Grow with Your Child
Petit Pli is a London-based company that designs sustainable children’s clothes, drawing inspiration from origami to create clothing that grows alongside the child wearing it.
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Othalo’s Recycled Homes: Using the Plastic Crisis to Address the Housing Deficit
Creating modular housing out of recycled plastic is a classic two-bird-with-one-stone solution.
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Digipop: A W Studio x Karim Rashid Carpet Collaboration
Bold design meets award-winning textile technology in this new carpet collection.
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What Are We Celebrating on Australia Day?
As a Melbourne-based publication, we at Casper Magazine have never shied away from writing about Australian topics.
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‘Ecological, Desirable, and Inclusive’: Reinventing the Champs-Élysées
Paris’ iconic shopping strip, the Champs-Élysées, is about to undergo an upgrade that prioritises pedestrians over cars.
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Optimised Agriculture: The Growing Vertical Farming Industry
Sustainability will require huge shakeups in many industries, and innovations like vertical farming are great examples of how we can totally rethink our practices for the better.
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Remember Me: The Art of Joy Hester at the Heide Museum of Modern Art
Open until February 14, an exhibit of Australian artist Joy Hester’s striking works is currently on display at Victoria’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, celebrating Hester’s unique contributions to the twentieth-century canon.
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Informed Fashion: How Good On You Makes an Ethical Wardrobe More Accessible
Founded by Sandra Capponi and Gordon Renouf, Good On You is a fashion app that shows you the ethics rating of clothing and accessory brands while you shop.
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Fashion, Film, and Sustainability: Berlin Fashion Week 2021
Today marks the beginning of Berlin Fashion Week (BFW), which has taken on a new form and aim this year.
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Prada Fall/Winter 2021 Menswear Show Possible Feelings
The Prada FW21 Menswear collection by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons takes as its basis an intimate and personal wish for contact - our urge to exchange and relate. The foundation of all is the individual: the human body, and its freedom.
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GlobalGiving to Local Living
In 2019, Casper Magazine wrote about GlobalGiving, a US-based organisation connecting international donors with local and national NGOs.
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Pharrell William's new simple gender-inclusive skincare line: Humanrace
It's no surprise that artist Pharrell Williams has ventured into the beauty arena with his latest collaboration with Williams' New York-based dermatologist of over 20 years, Dr Elena Jones.
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Helping Quadriplegics Walk Again: Clinatec's Exoskeleton
The Clinatec laboratory in Grenoble, France, has developed an exoskeleton that enables paralysed patients to move their limbs with their mind, the first time this has been achieved for all four limbs.
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Experiencing IV Therapy
After a year that’s reminded us of the importance of a good immune system, as well as how easily our lives can be thrown off track, IV therapy might be a solution to look into for achieving a healthier self.
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Contemporary Indigenous Fashion: Piinpi at the Bendigo Art Gallery
Garment and textile designs by artists and designers from the world’s oldest living culture have been collated in the Australian exhibition Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion.
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Books to Read in the New Year: Our Recommendations
The Christmas holidays is the best time to get back into reading as everything else winds down for a while.
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Suitcase Tech: Ovis Suitcase
Technology is rapidly making inroads in many areas of human lives.
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Sustainable Luxe Bedlinens You Will Want to Sleep In
Of all necessities, great bed sheets are definitely worth a splurge.
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Local Heroes: Bon Emil, an All-Rounder for Every Occasion
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic hit every industry in an unprecedented way, and retail was certainly no exception.
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Local Heroes: Incu, an Aussie Retailer with International Reach
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic hit every industry in an unprecedented way, and retail was certainly no exception.
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An Unreal City in Your Backyard: Acute Art’s Augmented Reality Festival
From giant spiders to tiny spinning tops, augmented reality (AR) sculptures play with the laws of physics in this curated selection of digital artworks, all available through your phone.
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Summer Holidays in Regional Victoria: Join the COVID Recovery
Between the severe bushfires during the summer of '19-'20 and the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown, businesses across Victoria have struggled to survive.
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NOCTA: A Drake x Nike Sub-Brand
Today sees the official launch of the Drake x Nike sub-brand NOCTA, a collaboration that was announced in August and met with increasing hype as the release approached.
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Big Ideas, Local Practices: The Great Green Wall across the African Continent
The Sahel region, which lies south of the Sahara, is one of the poorest and most climate-affected places in the world, but an African-led environmental project is significantly improving the lives of the region’s millions of inhabitants.
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Luxe Hair Oils You Need This Season: Our 2020 Guide
Just like a good skincare routine, our hair also needs a routine – but it doesn't have to be complicated.
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The 2020 Triennial: The NGV's December Reopening
After extended closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) – the epicentre of Melbourne’s vibrant arts scene – is finally set to reopen to the public this month.
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This Year's Best Smart Devices to Enhance Your Home Environment
With constant progress in the tech world, lots of cool and exciting gadgets are enhancing the home and changing our lives within it.
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Local Heroes: Up There, a Melburnian Menswear and Sneaker Boutique
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic hit every industry in an unprecedented way, and retail was certainly no exception.
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The Wonders of Exploration: The Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum
The Yingliang Stone Group in Xiamen, China have found a creative way to open their work to the public.
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The Politics of Shared Spaces: Identity and Struggle in the Works of Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
Nigerian artist Eniwaye Oluwaseyi highlights the difficulties of shared spaces in a vibrant exploration of identities, narratives, and power struggles, questioning how and by whom these elements of a person are defined.
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Premium Sunscreens You Need This Aussie Summer
As we head into summer in Australia, Casper Magazine have done our research and are ready to share our top sunscreen products to protect our skin over the next few months.
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The OFF-WHITE Streetwear Phenomenon
The future of streetwear’s survival is a hot topic in the fashion industry, with forecasts of its decline consistently proven wrong as the years go by.
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Hyper-Personalised Medicine: A New Way Forward?
While the world of medicine has come a long way in identifying, treating, and curing diseases and disorders, there are still many we just don’t know how to address.
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Life After Lockdown: A Perspective from Melbourne
Casper Magazine’s hometown of Melbourne has garnered international attention in recent months as countries around the globe experience their second wave of COVID-19, just as we are emerging from ours.
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Black Friday Giveaway! Must-Have Aussie Men's Grooming Products
This month, we join forces with our favourite Aussie men's grooming platform All About the Man, the first dedicated men's grooming site of its kind in Australia.
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Uncontrived Beauty: Summer Hair & Makeup Tutorial
We invited Melbourne-based makeup artist Daniel Tan and hairstylist Blake Leeman from Karlose James Salon to our studio to recreate the sleek SS21 looks for our new video beauty edits and how-to features.
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Constantly Creating: An Interview with Digital Artist Hussain Almossawi
Computers are becoming an increasingly powerful asset in the artist’s toolkit, driving creators to higher levels of wonder and creativity.
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Prada Re-Nylon: The Next Generation of Luxury Fashion
Italian fashion house Prada are tapping into their social conscience in an unprecedented way with their latest collection: Prada Re-Nylon.
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The Modern Speakeasy: Helsinki’s Bardem Cocktail Bar
Helsinki is now home to a new bar modelled after the classic speakeasy, with renowned local studio Fyra updating the moody style for modern patronage.
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Movember: Changing the face of men's health
The annual month-long event is once again raising awareness of (and research funding for) men’s health, dealing with prostate and testicular cancer, as well as mental health and suicide prevention.
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A Car-Free Life: Times Square Reimagined by 3deluxe
German design firm 3deluxe have set themselves a lofty goal: reimagining New York’s iconic Times Square as a thoroughfare that prioritises pedestrians and sustainability.
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MANOD and Oct31: Korean Fashion Brands Redefining Modern Details
The fashion from upcoming designers at this year's Seoul Fashion Week (SFW) was eye-catching.
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Marc Jacobs AW20: A Holiday Ad Campaign starring Kylie Minogue
Marc Jacobs is one of the industry’s most admirable fashion designers of the moment.
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Contemplation on a Monumental Scale: The Sculptures of Jaume Plensa
The works of Barcelona-born Jaume Plensa are striking in their scale and form.
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GiveOUT Day 2020: Supporting LGBTIQ+ Organisations
This Friday, LGBTIQ+ community groups from around Australia will be taking part in a national fundraising endeavour coordinated by resource organisation GiveOUT.
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Pangaia: Making Sustainability a Priority
It’s simple: clothing brands can no longer blatantly neglect the environment.
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The Spaces of Tomorrow: Dubai Design Week 2020
Today marks the start of the largest creative festival in the Middle East, Dubai Design Week 2020, showcasing industries ranging from urban design and jewellery to technology and science.
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Combatting the Plastic Problem: A New Super-Enzyme to Break Down Waste
Plastic pollutants are an ever-growing problem for our ecosystems.
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The Past and the Future: Prada’s Latest Timecapsule + AU/NZ Website Relaunch
It’s about to be an exciting twenty-four hours for fans of Prada, especially for those of us down south!
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Rebellious Luxe: The Modern Cruise with Virgin Voyages
A holiday on the high seas is about to get a whole lot more luxurious with the Scarlet Lady, the first in a line of four cruise ships operated by Virgin Voyages.
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Tadao Ando: Two Museums, One Distinct Style
Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando has two museums opening this year.
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Seoul Fashion Week SS21: World-Class Fashion in South Korea’s Capital
Last week saw Seoul Fashion Week (SFW) dominate the fashion sphere, with runways and events showcasing Korea’s best established designers alongside the brightest new creatives.
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Scribit: A Wall-Drawing Robot for a Productive Workspace
With so much technology in our lives, more and more people are deciding to keep it old-school in their workspaces, with whiteboards and the good old pen-and-paper replacing the use of even more screens.
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