Fashion

Flaws but not dealbreakers: We like the shape of this bag, and we like how it rides, but when the capacity of a pannier exceeds the 20 L mark, it will, when full, begin to affect the handling of the bike. This one is no different. Also, hitching it on and off the bike takes…

Few industries tout their sustainability credentials more forcefully than the fashion industry. But the sad truth is that despite high-profile attempts at innovation, it’s failed to reduce its planetary impact in the past 25 years.  Most items are still produced using non-biodegradable petroleum-based synthetics and end up in a landfill. So what can be done? New…

It’s impossible not to think of the previous six generations of Mercedes S-Class as you approach this seventh iteration. Think of them and pity such piffling technological world firsts as anti-lock brakes (1978, on the W116) or airbags (1981’s W126). Remember the awe you experienced the first time you saw a car with double-glazed windows…

If you’re sick and tired of wearing the same four or five outfits on repeat, you probably wish you could expand your wardrobe. However, buying new clothes is often quite expensive, especially if you want high-quality pieces. This common woe has given rise to a variety of clothing rental services that let you “borrow” clothing…

To find the best workout clothes, our team of 4 editors have personally tried on 40 different gym clothes since 2021, and tested each of them for at least two weeks, such as deadlifting in Ten Thousand’s Interval Short, hitting chest and back days in Lululemon’s tank tops, completing leg days in Polo Ralph Lauren’s…

Under the hood, text-to-image models have two key components: one neural network trained to pair an image with text that describes that image, and another trained to generate images from scratch. The basic idea is to get the second neural network to generate an image that the first neural network accepts as a match for…