There’s nothing else like a crisp white suit. So clean. So fresh. It’s a classy set you never know when you might need. Afternoon tea with the ladies. Work attire for a professional event. A spontaneous engagement dinner. Not to mention, the flawless combo is perfect for courthouse weddings. These days, more and more brides are opting for a sleek white two-piece instead of a dress even for more traditional ceremonies. One thing is for sure; white suits aren’t going anywhere for summer. The best part? You can repurpose the outfit for another occasion.

Furthermore, we don’t discriminate regarding all the splendors of pearly white suits. They come in all shapes, cuts, and styles. Yes, you have your classic white pantsuit that’s coastal grandma-approved. But you can also find ones with upgraded modern fits and silhouettes in breezy, clean-cut styles, glittery skirt suits, and even luxe sets with funky floral appliques. The list goes on and on, and we got you covered. (Just note most sets come individually, so you can mix and match or buy only the jacket or flared pants you were searching for.) Explore the wonders of all the different white suits, ahead. 

Le Suit Plus Size Side-Slit Skirt Suit, $240, $139.99

Banana Republic Cutaway Suit Blazer, $129.99, $103.99 & Avery Straight Pant, $79.99, $55.99

Gentle Herd Tailored Linen-Cotton Layered Blazer, $99 & Cotton-Linen Tailored Trousers, $89

ASOS Luxe Suit Jacket With 3D Floral Sleeve, $110 & Suit Flare Pants In White, $85

Zara Oversized Linen Blend Blazer, $149 & Low Rise Linen Blend Pants $89.90

River Island White Sequin Longline Blazer, $165 & White Sequin Mini Skirt, $84

Reformation Kinsale Set, $488

Good American Unisex Blazer, $159 & Wide Leg Trousers, $159

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It’s no secret that the world — including me — is obsessed with achieving a summer glow right now. This year, brightening ingredient vitamin C has become the most sought-after in skincare, and tutorials mastering the art of dewy makeup are taking over TikTok. It was only a matter of time before haircare got the glow memo. Forget highlights or balayage, because ‘glow lights’ are about to become your must-have hair color.

Something about warmer weather makes me want to lighten my hair. After a long, cold winter, I always think that my hair appears so dark. A brunette by looks but a blonde at heart, I always ask for balayage at the salon as it strikes a balance between my two alter egos. That was until John Frieda’s expert colorists Zoë Irwin and Nicola Clarke changed the game with this buzzy-new technique.

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What are glow lights?

“Glow lights give you an amazing illumination that’s instantly very youthful,” explains Zoë. “Think of it as a mixture of beige and gold tones next to something ashier.” These varying tones of blonde add a natural luminescence as well as dimension to the hair. It creates, as Nicola describes, a “beachier, surfy version” of the standard face frame and is softer at the top rather than on the ends, like a dip dye or balayage.

Kate Moss has been sporting this trend recently, most notably during her testimonial for the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial. To my surprise, the model did not have a ring light in front of her face; instead, her visionary hair colorist Nicola illuminated each strand to mimic good lighting. “I wanted her to radiate that summer look you get when you’ve been on holiday,” says Nicola. Emilia Clarke, another of Nicola’s clients, has also been spotted rocking a full head of caramel-toned glow lights.

Are glow lights right for you?

If glow lights are good enough for the celebrities, they’re good enough for me. What drew me to this trend is that the result is tailored to your unique hair color and texture. Zoë says that there is a “glow-up for everyone” and that the trend is bespoke to all hair colors, from blonde to brunette right through to red.

“The trend isn’t about completely removing your natural hair color,” explains Nicola, “but adding a more delicate blonde,” which is peppered throughout the lengths. To achieve the look on Kate Moss, Nicola reveals that she merged varying tones of blonde for a Brigitte Bardot feel.

If you are blessed with curly or textured hair, Nicola says that the process is similar but involves studying which curls specifically need to be picked up. “We might concentrate the blonde more on the ends around the face,” she adds. “You could scatter a few around the front and in certain points where the light hits, for example the hairline. Then you could tip the ends with blonde.” According to Nicola, there isn’t a texture or hair type that wouldn’t look good with a glow light. Rest assured, this look really is for everyone. 

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What happens during an appointment for glow lights?

“I want to look like Kate Moss,” I told my hair colorist, John Clark at Nicola Clarke at John Frieda. He knew exactly what I meant, having worked alongside Nicola and Zoë for years. But Nicola advises that bringing in images is always the best way forward, especially if you’re wondering how to ask your hair colorist to achieve this look.

For my hair, John’s color palette consisted of two blonde tones and two sheer glazes. He applied the blonde colors to dry hair around the perimeters, using the lighter of the two around my hairline. The darker blonde was reserved for the tips and throughout the body, and the color was teased into my hair using a backcombing technique. This is how you avoid the ’90s, stripy look, Zoë explains. John was careful not to touch the top of my hair as he wanted to keep my brunette essence intact. 

After sitting with the color for 45 minutes, we moved to the backwash. The glazes were then applied to clean, wet hair. Glazes are sheer, demi-permanent colors and John explained that using them is ”like adding lip gloss to lips.” The glaze was left for longest on the roots to add depth and for less time on the hairline to keep it soft. John then rinsed it over the ends to create further dimension. Overall, the process took around two hours.

How do you maintain glow lights?

I am completely obsessed with how this look turned out. I have never taken my hair this light before — and it was scary at first — but I honestly feel like a total beach babe (and my inner blonde is thanking me). I’m really glad I did it. My hair looks radiant and the golden blonde has framed my face, softened my features, and brought out my eye color. In other words, it’s enhanced my whole look, so it’s safe to say I really have glowed up!

I was pleased to discover that the maintenance of glow lights is pretty simple. Nicola clarifies that she colors Emilia Clarke’s hair with glow lights four times a year. “If you top up the color every six to eight weeks, it’ll look consistently good,” she says. If you are like me and tend to color your hair only once or twice a year, John assured me that I could leave it to grow out and it would continue to look fresh. With regular moisturizing hair treatments, my hair is set to have a lasting and healthy, sun-kissed glow.

Thanks to its unique tailoring to your hair color, I think glow lights is the perfect way to enhance your natural hair and achieve a gleaming result that you can be really happy with for months on end. Take this as your sign to give it a try this summer.

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Packing for a trip is as painful as any chore, but cramming garments that should theoretically last you an entire school year into a few suitcases? Downright impossible. At least it certainly seems like it when you're neck-deep in your wardrobe, struggling to decide what to bring versus what to leave at home. How many going-out tops will I wear? Should I pack *all* of my Skims loungewear? What about my winter coats?

Not to stress you out even more, but beyond selecting which apparel and accessories to lug to school, there's another major factor to consider: how you're going to store and organize everything — because your dorm room’s small closet probably won't suffice (and you probably haven't even seen it IRL yet).

What you'll need: a solid game plan and versatile storage solutions, ideally from Bed Bath & Beyond. For expert insight, we tapped Allison Berlin, New York-based fashion stylist and founder of the styling consultancy Style Made Simple, to share her most valuable tips for maximizing your dorm closet space. Click through to figure out where to start — and what to add to your shopping cart — ahead of move-in day.

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It wasn’t hard to see the symbolism in the torrential rains that preceded Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Indianapolis, IN, on July 25. One month and a day after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with folks feeling the severe effects of abortion bans across the country, the mood among Indiana Democrats and abortion activists felt stormy and unsettled, as the state became the first to convene a special session of lawmakers to consider a proposal that would ban nearly all abortions, which activists and experts say could have devastating consequences. 

Harris addressed a roundtable of lawmakers at the Indiana State Library to talk about the proposed ban and the fight to protect reproductive rights, and to show the administration’s support for lawmakers advocating against bans; before she even wrapped up her visit, abortion rights activists gathered outside, chanting “my body, my choice,” and “vote them out.” All this came two weeks after an executive order from the Biden Administration, which supports protecting access to medication abortion and contraception and guarantees the right to emergency medical interventions and services — although many have said it doesn’t do enough to tangibly help people on the ground in states with abortion bans.

This is a growing list of states and Indiana could be on it as soon as September 1 if the proposed legislation, Senate Bill 1, passes. S.B. 1 bans all abortions with few exceptions and is one of a growing number of bans that are limiting nearly all abortions (though self-managed abortion is still an option, even where bans are in place).

“Maybe some people need to actually learn how a woman’s body works,” Harris said pointedly to a high-ceiling room full of lawmakers and media. “But when you understand how a woman’s body works, you’ll understand that the parameters that are being proposed mean that for the vast majority of women, by the time she realizes she is pregnant, she will effectively be prohibited from having access to reproductive healthcare that would allow her to choose what happens to her body.” 

Indiana had already been receiving national attention after a report that a 10-year-old rape survivor was forced to travel to Indiana for care due to Ohio’s strict abortion laws; abortion in the state is banned after about six weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest. This case was brought up during Harris’ roundtable. “She is a baby,” said Rep. Cherrish Pryor, the Indiana House Democratic Floor Leader. “Why should we force babies to have babies?”

Harris touched on this too, and said it went to show what the Supreme Court decision meant “to real people, including children.” She also reiterated what many have been saying for months: that the decision could have implications on future access to birth control, and the ability of people to marry whomever they love. 

Meanwhile, inside the library after the roundtable, Refinery29 was able to catch up with Vice President Harris to chat about abortion, the healthcare crisis it’s leading to, maternal mortality rates, and, well, what we all should do if we’re feeling extremely frustrating about the way things are going right now. 

Refinery29: It’s been just over one month since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. How has it felt seeing how all these abortion bans are impacting the American people from your vantage point?  

Vice President Kamala Harris: “I’ll tell you, I’m here in Indiana today, where their state house is about to be the first state in the country to convene a special session to further restrict access to abortion care. And while I’ve been here, I’ve met with state legislators who are prompted to defend a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body, but also young leaders. And when I meet the young leaders who are in their 20s, who are fighting on this issue, and they’re out there marching right now… It gives me a lot of hope and optimism — but only because I know that they’re prepared to do the hard work, which we should all be prepared to do. And that’s about speaking up. It’s about organizing folks and understanding… that people should have the freedom and the liberty to make decisions about their own body and their own life, and the government should not be making that decision for them. 

“And we need to do what we know we can do in the next 160 days to get people to vote, because your local prosecutor might be a prosecutor who’s in a state that is criminalizing healthcare providers. You want to make sure that that local prosecutor reflects your values. It should not be a crime for a healthcare provider to provide healthcare. Who is your governor? [It] matters when a state legislature is passing laws that restrict rights — you want a governor like there are in some states who’ll say: ‘I’m not going to stand for that. I’ll veto it.’

“Who your state legislators are matters because they’re the ones sending those bills up. Who is in Congress matters. Our President Joe Biden is prepared to sign off on legislation to codify — which means to put in law — the protections that Roe used to offer, but we need two more senators in the United States Senate. So those elections matter. 

“So, this is part of the work that we know we have in front of us. But I feel optimistic because I think everyone understands that each of us as individuals has a power to weigh in on this, to participate in this, and to let our neighbors and our family and our friends understand what this means to us and what we have at stake.” 

And for those young people that you just mentioned, some of them might be feeling frustrated about what’s happening in the country right now — what would you want them to know? 

“You know, I have a 17-year-old goddaughter, who is now entering her senior year in high school, and she’s starting to apply and look at colleges. And she and her friends are now assessing — not only what school they’d like to go to based on the academics or the sports program — but what state it’s in, and whether or not [there’s] going to be a restriction on her ability to make decisions about her own life and body.

“We have a 23-year-old daughter whose friends are making decisions about where they’re going to work. Whereas before it might have been determined by where the company [they want to work at is located] they’re looking at literally, what state is it? And what laws are being passed in that state? So it’s a very real issue.

“And I just want to encourage everybody to stay active, stay involved, because this is a very specific moment where rights have been taken from people, and we need to reclaim those rights.”

When I meet the young leaders who are in their 20s, who are fighting on this issue, and they’re out there marching right now… It gives me a lot of hope and optimism.

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You’ve done a lot of work on maternal mortality. In Indiana where we are today, the rates of maternal mortality are the third highest in the nation. Abortion access folds into this issue because some people will have no option but to give birth in a system that often fails them. How do you plan to continue working on this issue so that rates don’t spike in the face of lessened abortion access? 

“Maternal mortality is something I’ve worked on for years. In the United States, we have one of the highest rates of maternal mortality among so-called developed countries in the world. How can that be? When you look at how it affects specific groups of women —Black women are three times more likely to die. Native American women twice as likely to die. Women who live in rural America? One-and-a-half more times likely to die.

And so, part of the work that I’ve been doing is to elevate this to an issue that we talked about at the White House. And the president has been a great leader on this. And we are talking about what we need to do… to extend care for women, before, during, and after childbirth. We need to do what is necessary to, for example, deal with racial bias in the system, which is very real. And to train healthcare providers on that issue. And then we need to do things like what we’ve been doing, which is to say that Medicaid coverage postpartum should not just be two months, but should be [extended to cover a person for] 12 months [after giving birth], and we have a lot of states that are doing what we’re asking them to do, which is to extend Medicaid coverage for postpartum care.”

I’m glad you brought up Medicaid. Will the Biden-Harris Administration take additional steps to help those in states where abortion’s banned, beyond the recent executive order, like using Medicaid resources to fund travel for people who need to go across state lines?

“So we’re taking a look at what kind of federal funding assistance we can give in particular to women and folks who are impacted in these states that are passing these extreme laws. One of the issues and the challenge is there’s this thing called the Hyde Amendment. And the Hyde Amendment basically says that you can’t use federal funds to pay for an abortion. And so what we are looking at is whether we can support… the sanctuary states, right, which are in the middle of states that are passing restrictions… We’re taking a look at what options there are, what we can do [that’s] legally feasible. Because we don’t want to do something and raise expectations, and then the courts throw it out in a couple of days. And that’ll just deflate everybody in terms of how they’re feeling, to your point about this whole issue and what it means. So we’re taking a look at that. But the Hyde Amendment, we need to get rid of the Hyde Amendment. And we’ve been clear about that. But until we do, it’s a restriction that we have to get around.” 

What do you see as your role specifically when it comes to making change on the abortion issue going forward in the next month, and then the next two years? And do you think the people who got you elected — women, young people, Black women, many others — will see that you’re doing this work? What do you want them to know?

“Well, I want us to be doing this work together. All of us. Because this is really critical work. And there are so many lives that are being directly impacted. So I see myself as being a leader among many leaders who are doing extraordinary work to make sure that we stand for a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and her healthcare.”

This interview has been condensed for length and clarity.

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