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My Style: Chris Classic, recording artist and entrepreneur
New York transplant Chris Classic is something of a creative renaissance man. His claims to fame include an American Music Award and a viral internet moment in which he transformed an H&M lookbook image of a young Black child wearing a controversial hoodie to an image of him as a king. Now, Classic has a new fragrance line, Savoir Faire.
Does your back ache after you’ve stared down at your laptop for hours? How to avoid screen slump.
We’re going out less and sitting too much. And our bodies are paying the price.
Test Drive: Animal Flow with Atlanta movement coach Jordan Coburn
This kind of functional exercise is said to recruit a greater number of muscles than traditional weight training while also stimulating the central nervous system.
Here’s one way to find your footing: try “grounding”
When I move, it is with purpose: To get stronger, to get leaner, to get somewhere, and to get there now. So to think I might try walking intentionally—as slow as humanly possible, barefoot, and without a destination in mind—is almost laughable. Yet I do it sometimes.
My Style: fashion influencer Chastity Garner Valentine
In 2008, when blogs were first blowing up, Chastity Garner Valentine launched GarnerStyle to share tips and advice with the plus-size community. Today, she boasts more than 300,000 followers on Instagram alone.
My Style: Deklah Polansky, creative director at studio’farrell
After an idyllic childhood in a tiny kibbutz community of 300 in Upper Galilee, Deklah Polansky made her way to MTV in Manhattan. Now, the creative director and partner in Atlanta-based studio’farrell calls Midtown home.
This free-spirited Athens label makes clothing meant to be lived in
Since founding her brand State the Label in 2010, designer Adrienne Antonson has created free-spirited handmade clothing that is meant to be well-lived in.
The gym helped me cope. Now that I need it more than ever, it’s gone.
The blistering-hot yoga class I took every Friday? It helped me take my mind off negative messages. With the studio shuttered, I was required to face some of my worst thoughts—the world is in trouble, your family is in danger, you might get fired, there is no end to this in sight—without my most reliable coping tool at my disposal.
My Style: Drew Huggins, Toki Tattoo artist
In an industry known for attitude, illustrator Drew Huggins is challenging the status quo.
Stay fit at home with these online workouts from Atlanta fitness studios
The gyms are closed but the internet is open for your workout needs. Here are some local studios who are offering online workouts and classes, both for free and with the purchase of memberships.
My Style: Chris Classic, recording artist and entrepreneur
New York transplant Chris Classic is something of a creative renaissance man. His claims to fame include an American Music Award and a viral internet moment in which he transformed an H&M lookbook image of a young Black child wearing a controversial hoodie to an image of him as a king. Now, Classic has a new fragrance line, Savoir Faire.
My Style: Brandé Elise and Danielle Gray
“She’s weird, and I like it,” described marketing guru Danielle of her first impression of voiceover artist Brandé, her partner in life and business. Yin and yang personified, this entrepreneurial couple’s latest endeavor is a CBD brand, Unoia.
Try these five at-home spa treatments from Atlanta pros
While nothing takes the place of an in-person facial or pedicure, an at-home spa treatment can be just as effective—and relaxing—as one from the pros.
Does your back ache after you’ve stared down at your laptop for hours? How to avoid screen slump.
We’re going out less and sitting too much. And our bodies are paying the price.
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Think of epidemiologists as doctors for the world, says Dr. James Buehler, a former epidemiology professor at Emory who worked at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for two decades. “Physicians monitor an individual’s health and recommend ways to stay fit. Epidemiologists monitor the health of populations.”
