Paradisefold Blog

October is Breast Awareness Month in the UK, and it is the perfect reason to pause and ask a simple question: When did you last check in with your own body? It takes a few minutes, it costs nothing, and it is one of the kindest things you can do for yourself. Why Checking Matters According to Breast Cancer Now, 1 in 7 women in the UK will get breast cancer in their lifetime, and finding it early makes treatment much more likely to work. Anyone can get breast cancer, including men, and around 2,300 women under 40 are diagnosed every year. So this is not a conversation to save for later in life. The point is not to frighten...

Every October, the UK marks Black History Month, a time to honour history, achievement and the people who shaped the world we live in. At Paradisefold, we want to use this month to celebrate something close to our hearts: hair, and specifically the beauty, resilience and creativity of Black women's hair. Hair Has Always Told a Story Hair has never been just hair. For generations of Black women, braids, twists, coils, locs and afros have carried culture, community and identity. They have been acts of care, of celebration and, at times, of quiet resistance. Plenty of us learned young that our hair was something to manage rather than enjoy. Many Black girls grew up being told to tame it, straighten it...

Release: A New Beginning Is Almost Here Can you feel it? The light is softer, the mornings are slower, and there's a little voice saying it might be time to begin again. We've been listening to that voice. And we've been making something. Meet Release Release is our new collection, and it's all about new beginnings. We can't show you everything yet (good things take time), but here's what we can tell you. It's inspired by the changing seasons. It wanders through woodland and open meadows. It's built around simple rituals like making a wish, gathering together and letting things grow in their own time. And at the heart of it all is a simple dandelion. We chose it as...

How to Style a Silk Slip Dress: Day, Evening and Everything Between There's a reason the slip dress never really leaves. It disappears for a season, everyone declares it "back" the next, and the truth is it never went anywhere. It just waited quietly in the wardrobe of anyone who understood its value. One piece of fabric, cut on the bias, doing the work of ten different outfits. If you own a silk slip dress and only wear it for one occasion, you're underusing it. This is the dress that goes from a Tuesday desk to a Saturday dinner without you having to think too hard. Here's how to actually get the range out of it. Why silk slips work...

In three years, our world has gone from a state of relative calm and stability to 65 inter-and intra-state wars wrecking societies and nature across of our fragile earth. An invasion of Ukraine, civil war, starvation and ethnic cleansing in Sudan, a genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and the West Bank, and the list goes on and on. In this new world, autocratic powers are on the ascent and democratic governments’ international footprints are in retreat. Aid budgets are shrinking and the peacekeeping system is absent. The United Nations, with all its flaws, has never been weaker, and its weakening is a deliberate consequences of those who stand to benefit from having no check on their ambitions to...