WE CAN REMAKE THE FUTURE OF FASHION Lillian Race March 9, 2021 Community, Features, Fresh Mess, Interview, MESSFashion, MESSMedia, Society, Stories, Women In Conversation with the Founder of the Fashion Movement Remake, Ayesha Barenblat Ayesha (@remakeourworld) is the Founder and CEO of Remake, passionate about telling the story of where our clothes from,...
International Women’s Day Lily Bell March 8, 2021 Community, Society, Stories, Women "International Women's Day (noun)1. A time to celebrate and reflect on progress made on woman's rights.2. A day to call for an end to gender inequality"UN Women Penny Karabey I am sometimes...
How to Use Social Media to Effect Positive Change Lillian Race March 2, 2021 Community, Creativity, Features, Interview, MESSFashion, MESSFeature, MESSMedia, Society, Stories, Sustainablefashion, Women Following our recent investigation into whether social media is a genuine form of activism, we have opened the conversation up to global fashion movements and platforms fighting for environmental and social ju...
Is Social Media A Genuine Form of Activism? Lillian Race February 24, 2021 Community, Creativity, Interview, MESSFashion, Society, Stories, Sustainablefashion, Women This article is one of two that investigates how to use social media to necessitate change. We have been speaking to those within the sustainability community about how we can use our voice to produce mean...
Are fashion and feminism compatible? Lillian Race January 15, 2021 History, MESSFashion, Society, Women The connection between fashion and feminism has a long and complex history that marks ambiguous compatibility between the two. We cannot endeavour to objectively resolve such a compounded debate with many fact...
Trump’s insurrection at the Capitol Lillian Race January 9, 2021 News, Society, Stories, Top News “We’re not asking you to shoot them like you shoot us. We’re asking you to not shoot us like you don’t shoot them” Tye Winters On Wednesday 6 January 2021, pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol i...
The reality of managing mental health in the entertainment industry Otter pr November 10, 2020 MESSFeature, MESSHealth, MESSsubmissions, Society Working in entertainment is one of the most high pressure, cut-throat industries anyone could find themselves in. While the glitz and glam of music, film and everything in between may look appealing, it is rel...
Fixing Racial Discrimination In The Fashion Industry Lucy Oben-Pepra July 8, 2020 Community, Designers, Fashion Weeks, Features, Lifestyle, MESSFashion, Models, News, Society, Stories, Women When clothing retailer H&M was embroiled in a public relations crisis over its decision to cast a black toddler in a sweatshirt referencing a monkey in a jungle, one fashion news site offered this adv...
5 Easy Things You Can Do At Home To Keep Busing During The Coronavirus Pandemic messmag April 5, 2020 Community, Lifestyle, Society, Top News, Women Things are very uncertain and anxiety-provoking at the moment, but the good news is that we're all in this together, wherever we are in the world. Staying home has created huge polarising views - you either...
