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Fashion

Zendaya echoes Beyoncé's look in a vintage Versace dress

Jewellery

Ocean floor diamonds are officially a thing

Architecture

Architects plan world's second-tallest tower in Russia

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Zendaya echoes Beyoncé's look in a vintage Versace dress

The Euphoria star has had several memorable fashion moments this year. At various awards, Zendaya shines as brightly as ever , despite the new hybrid format to which awards ceremonies and other events have been forced to adapt due to the pandemic. Not without the help of her stylist Low Roach.

A few months after her dazzling Oscar appearance in a bright yellow Valentino dress - which deserves a separate statuette - for the next red carpet, Zendaya chose an equally grandiose look, but this time Versace. The actress arrived at the BET Awards in a vintage dress from Donatella Versace's spring-summer 2003 collection. "Take a stylist with an archive!" - Roach noted emotionally on Instagram, referring to the fact that the dress is from the 2000s.

Another fashion icon has already stepped onto the stage in this purple dress with light green accents. In 2003, Beyoncé wore a cropped sheer outfit at the BET Awards for her first solo performance. 18 years later, Zendaya paid tribute to the Queen of R'n'B in the same ceremony. She captioned her Instagram photo in this image Crazy in love - a nod to the superstar's early hit. By the way, she performed with him then at the BET Awards.

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Ocean floor diamonds are officially a thing

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JEWELLERY

Just off the coast of Namibia, the ocean floor is scattered with… diamonds. Real, actual diamonds.

Exactly like the ones you’re familiar with—the kind extracted from mines— these stones are billions of years old. But entirely unlike those diamonds, they were carried through rivers, churned through mega-storms, and eventually emptied into the Atlantic over the course of millennia. They can be plucked from the water by the human hand, “with no trace left on the environment.” The story is as awe-inspiring as nature itself, but if you’re wondering why you didn’t know “ocean diamonds” exist, you aren’t alone. Even Baylee Zwart, the founder of fine jewellery label Azlee and an expert in rare-cut diamonds, admits she had no idea it was possible. “This is a whole new category of diamond,” she says. “I’ve asked other people in the jewellery industry if they’re familiar with ‘ocean diamonds,’ and they’re like, What are you talking about? It’s the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while.”

Goodden would happily say the former. The conversation around diamonds has become incredibly fraught: On one side, the lab-grown diamond community has taken issue with the environmental and social risks of diamond mining, while natural diamond organizations point out the enormous amount of energy required to make diamonds in a lab. Neither is perfect, but ocean diamonds could be a third option—one that requires less human intervention and ecosystem disruption. A few years ago, Goodden saw an opportunity for a company that would exclusively collect, cut, polish, and sell diamonds sourced from the ocean; fittingly, he called it Ocean Diamonds.

“I really wanted to do it on romantic grounds,” he says. “These diamonds are so special—why lose them among the others? They connect you to the ocean, and they aren’t cut out [of the earth], they’re just there amongst the gravel. It’s primitive and wonderful,” he continues. “But today there is also a great wish [from consumers] to know where things come from, and we can do that better than anyone.” Romance aside, traceability is Ocean Diamonds’s big selling point. Goodden’s team employs a small group of “artisan divers” in Namibia who go out on small dive boats, search for diamonds along the seafloor, and bring them back to be sorted. The process is carefully documented: “We know who found each diamond, where and when they found it, which boat they were on, what the weather was like that day,” Goodden says. In contrast, larger companies use ships to comb deeper stretches of the ocean floor; the process involves pulling up gravel, sifting through it for diamonds, and returning the rocks to the sea, with less insight into where or who found each stone.

Azlee’s Zwart learned of Ocean Diamonds’s work when an email from Goodden’s team landed in her inbox last year. The companies’ missions are nicely aligned: As an avid surfer and diver, Zwart has donated a percentage of sales to ocean conservancy projects since Azlee’s launch in 2015. Ocean Diamonds proposed a collaboration, and Zwart became their first American design partner. Her first capsule of sculptural rings, earrings, and necklaces studded with round Ocean Diamonds recently debuted exclusively on MatchesFashion.com. For now, Ocean Diamonds’s selection is limited to certain shapes and cuts, but Goodden said nature takes care of quality control: Since the diamonds endure such a long journey through rivers and storms, only the largest and strongest stones actually make it to the ocean. “It’s kind of mind-blowing,” Zwart adds. “The fact that these diamonds just flow from the mountains through the rivers, and divers go pick them out… It’s magical.” Ocean Diamonds isn’t looking to pit itself against the diamond mining or lab-grown diamond sectors; it’s simply offering a new option, one that will appeal to ocean lovers and designers with big ambitions around traceability. You have to admit, it’d also feel pretty incredible to wear a diamond that was plucked from the ocean floor, as if nature left it there just for you.

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Architects plan world's second-tallest tower in Russia

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ARCHITECTURE

A Scottish architecture firm has released plans for the second-tallest skyscraper in the world to be built in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Lakhta Center II will stand at 703 meters (2,306 feet), while the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, measures 828 meters (2,717 feet), according to a press release from architects Kettle Collective.

However, the planned skyscraper will house the highest occupied floor and viewing gallery in the world at 590 meters (1,936 feet).

By way of comparison, the current second-tallest building is the Shanghai Tower, at 632 meters (2,073 feet). The Shard in London measures 310 meters (1,017 feet).

The Lakhta Center II will stand on the outskirts of St. Petersburg next to the original Lakhta Center, which is the tallest building in Europe at 462 meters (1,516 feet) tall and houses the headquarters of energy company Gazprom.

Tony Kettle is design lead on the project, and also designed the Lakhta Center during his time at architectural firm RMJM. "The new Lakhta Center will be a template of sustainable design for global high-rise projects," said Kettle in the press release.

"It will have the best in class low energy design and a mix of uses that will create a vertical atrium space with a vibrant centre as the heart for this new business district."

The Lakhta Center II will feature office space, accommodation and relaxation spaces over 150 floors.

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"The design is both aesthetic and functional as it will reduce considerable wind forces that will impact the structure, in turn reducing the size of structural elements required within the building," added Kettle.

"This is a hugely significant partnership for our studio and has come at a time of considerable global challenge, not just for Kettle Collective but for our industry as we navigate the impact of the pandemic," said Kettle's managing director Colin Bone.

The original Lakhta Center was St. Petersburg's first "supertall" building (one measuring 300 meters or above).

The structure is now the northernmost skyscraper in the world, according to its developers.

The 87-story tower twists a full 90 degrees from its foundation to its top, like a winding needle. This makes it one of the world's tallest examples of a "twisted" skyscraper design.

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Looking to shake up your skincare routine? This iconic exfoliant will do just that

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BEAUTY

My skin’s neither problematic nor pimple-free, it’s not overly sensitive nor is it completely cooperative. The fact is, my complexion is rather run-of-the-mill—when I break out, my blemishes remain considerably contained, and changes in season don’t drastically alter my daily skincare routine.

While my skin’s ability to adapt to change is most definitely not something I’m complaining about, it does mean I often struggle to observe any overly apparent differences in my complexion when trialling new products. With that being said, when I tapped Alpha-H’s Liquid Gold into my evening regimen, that notion was put to the test.

Yes, Liquid Gold has a cult following—with one bottle reportedly sold every two minutes—but cult followings don’t always translate into results worthy of the hype these products manage to muster. Thankfully, that was not the case with this crueltyfree, Australian-made chemical exfoliant.

Shop now: Alpha-H Liquid Gold, $60 from Sephora Liquid Gold not only lived up to its rather high expectations, but also proved to be one of the only products that’s had the ability to shake up my skincare routine in recent months. Yes, you read that correctly. After only a handful of uses, my tired complexion looked visibly brighter and quite frankly, far more lively. Was the fact that I used the lauded product in conjunction with the brand’s Balancing Cleanser and Micro Super Scrub what helped the exfoliant manage to actually refine my skin tone? Or was Liquid Gold’s ability to work 5% Glycolic Acid (complete with a unique low-pH delivery system) into the deeper layer of my skin to thank for the product’s success? Your guess is as good as mine.

Shop now: Alpha-H Balancing Cleanser, $44 from Sephora Fast-forward four months and Liquid Gold is now a firm step in my sacred skincare routine. For the best results, begin by introducing the exfoliant into your own evening regimen just once per week, before graduating to between two and three times per week. As for how to apply the light liquid, it’s advised you use four to five drops after cleaning, which can be dabbed across your face with a cotton pad. Yes, it’s that easy.

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