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Remembering The Brits Awards

February 7, 2023 Bricks and Bluebottles

The NME has been looking back at some highlights of the Brits music awards. This bureau’s personal highlight is this.

Winehouse was so great and taken far too soon.

Freeze Design

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023 Bricks and Bluebottles

With its first-ever offering of image personalisation, Samsung has responded to the demand for more customisation options for its Bespoke refrigerators.

Customers can use the MyBespoke online tool to upload any original design, artwork or photo onto the refrigerator panel doors or use a pre-created generative art collection of 100 designs inspired by nature and the elements. Customers can also personalise one or both French doors with separate images or a single image across both.

The abstract designs look promising, but the image of a cat seems downright silly.

Useful Fashion Advice

February 5, 2023 Bricks and Bluebottles

there's an online obsession w buying clothes at a price close to manufacturing cost. so if it costs $45 to make something, then ppl think $46 is the fairest price bc they only see the material product. direct to consumer (DTC) brands market themselves on this logic pic.twitter.com/UpmGtdLLeT
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) January 24, 2023

Take note.

An Aid of Some Sort

February 4, 2023 Bricks and Bluebottles

Sure, an orthopaedic aid of some sort. Not for spicing up a couple’s love life.

Shopping Down

February 3, 2023 Bricks and Bluebottles

Finnair will stop selling Marimekko amenity kits and other popular Finnish products on board its flights by the end of February. This move comes as part of a growing trend among airlines, including Qantas, United Airlines, and KLM, to end the once-popular inflight service due to the decline in demand for duty-free items.

*Image via pointmetotheplane.boardingarea.com*

The, ‘once-popular,’ is the key phrase there. This bureau often wondered why they were popular in the first place, but it’s demise is now becoming the prevailing trend for airlines moving further away from the golden age of air travel.

Improved airport retail options and the greater availability of goods online have also impacted the appeal of inflight sales. The airline will offer a 40% closing-down sale until the end of the service. Inflight sales will end on February 28, although passengers can still pre-order goods until April 18. Finnair will continue to sell food and beverages on board.