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You Don’t Need a New Life. You Just Need to Stop Quitting.
We’ve become obsessed with finding the perfect path, the perfect purpose and the perfect version of ourselves. But what if the thing that changes your life isn’t finding the right thing? What if it’s finally staying long enough to see what happens? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how obsessed we are with starting over.


The Founder Building a Stage for Fashion’s Untold Stories.
With Renaissance Fashion x Art Showcase, @LauraMomodu is creating more than an event. She is building a platform rooted in dignity, access, representation, and belief. Renaissance Fashion x Art Showcase was not born from one dramatic moment. For Laura Momodu, it came from years of noticing the same pattern: extraordinary creatives with powerful work, waiting to be seen.


The Person Online is Real, But She is Not The Whole Story.
I find it a hard line to tread: navigating the persona I have created on social media alongside that of my regular corporate job. In both worlds, I have always been quite good at being guarded. I share online in much the same way that I would with colleagues: a little insight, but nothing too revealing; nothing overly emotional; surface-level, with a sprinkle of humour. The perfect recipe for almost all work-based relationships. It is a strange kind of intimacy. Enough inform


Dasha Schwartz on Why Timothée Chalamet Accidentally Did Ballet a Favour
Ballet has always asked its dancers to fit inside something: a company, a role, a body, a stage. Dasha Schwartz is more interested in what happens when you take those boundaries away. After beginning ballet at five, training at Canada’s National Ballet School and dancing professionally across North America and Europe, Schwartz came to understand both the extraordinary beauty of the art form and the rigidity of the world surrounding it. So she started imagining something diffe


Chuwi Is a Family First, a Band Second.
Most bands spend years learning how to become a family. Chuwi never had to. The Puerto Rican band grew up together, long before tours, stages and audiences entered the picture. That closeness still sits at the centre of everything they create: in the blunt honesty they bring to one another, in songs shaped by home and distance, and in a belief that community might be one of the few things powerful enough to hold us together. In our conversation with Chuwi, we talk about growi


Café Deco Believes in the Power of Keeping Things Simple
In a London dining culture obsessed with spectacle, Café Deco is making a case for something quieter: food with conviction, hospitality with warmth, and the confidence to stop when something is already good.
There is something almost unconventional about a restaurant that does not seem particularly interested in proving anything.


Bar Blondie Is Building a Cultural Living Room in Queen’s Park
Inside the wine bar where southern European ease, Spaghetti Western cinema, and creative culture meet.
Set inside a converted horse stable on Lonsdale Road Mews, Bar Blondie feels less like a restaurant built around a concept and more like a room someone has been waiting to invite you into.


What Happens When Your Lover Becomes Your Business Partner?
Love might bring two people together. But what happens when your partner becomes your business partner, your biggest critic, your biggest supporter, and the person sitting beside you when the dream gets difficult?


F*CK The Divine Feminine. I Want To Be My Divine Self.
I am saying fuck the performance, fuck the prescription, fuck the endless instructions on what femininity is supposed to look like and what we need to “tap into” more. Fuck the idea that becoming your highest self requires softening, silencing or cutting off the parts of you that don't fit someone else's definition of feminine.


Debora Spanhol Wants Fashion Photography to Feel Human.
When I opened Zoom, I saw Debora Spanhol, a young woman in her early thirties, adorned with chunky silver bangles, rings, and earrings that looked like melted metal, all created by a designer friend of hers. They stood in striking contrast to her warm, dark eyes, little brunette curls, and big, curious smile, giving her the look of a southern Italian woman. Yet Debora is a Brazilian photographer, and through her work, you can trace her roots, rising to make her photography vi


Samia Kanaan Might Just Be The Coolest Girl on Your Feed.
In an internet built on performance, Samia Kanaan somehow feels remarkably unperformed. Whether she's interviewing fashion insiders from the bathroom of a Paris nightclub, documenting Fashion Week, or greeting millions with her now-iconic "Coucou ma biche," her content has always felt less like broadcasting and more like inviting people into a conversation. Born in California, and now building a creative career in Paris, Kanaan has quietly become one of a new generation of cr


'You Don't Need More Talent. You Need More Rejection' Says Jason Arasheben
Before he was designing championship rings, custom pieces for A$AP Rocky and Michael Jackson, or building one of the most influential jewellery houses in America, Jason Arasheben was a law student walking into nail salons with a bag of hair accessories, hoping someone would say yes. Most didn't. It didn't matter. For the man now known as Jason of Beverly Hills, rejection became the foundation of everything that followed. In conversation with Roe, he discusses immigration, ent


Ronnie's: Fashion Doesn't Need Another Perfume. It Needs a Great Sandwich.
When Ronnie Fieg took a job at his local shoe shop, David Z, at the tender age of 13, he already had a plan: he knew that some of the greatest visionaries succeed through passion, persistence, and creative impetus, but also by starting early. It was the 90s, a different time. Pre-internet, pre-influencer era. In New York, David Z was the place to be for sneakerheads, a place where the cultural mix was a genuine convergence of fashion, artists and everyday shoppers. A time whe


Howtin Belongs to a Generation of Musicians Who Don't Wait to Be Discovered.
Just a year ago, Leo Houghton aka Howtin had never made a song. Today, the 22-year-old producer from Belfast has amassed millions of streams, earned a residency in Dublin, and become one of the most exciting new names in house music. But our conversation wasn't really about music. It was about what happens when your passion begins to outgrow the life you planned for yourself. About the fear of leaving certainty behind, the discipline of teaching yourself something entirely ne


Andrew Licout Says The Internet Forgot How to Live.
I've been following Andrew Licout for years, long before Roe Magazine existed, long before this conversation, and long before I had any reason to believe that one day he'd become our July cover star. Which is funny, because if you'd asked me back then why I followed him, I don't think I could have given you a particularly smart answer. I wasn't analysing engagement metrics or trying to figure out why his content worked. I just remember laughing, like really laughing, you know


Director Henry Czerwonka Thinks We're All Haunted by the People We Once Were.
Home has a strange way of staying with us. Even after we leave, build new lives, and become different people, the places that shaped us often continue to exist somewhere beneath the surface. For filmmaker Henry Czerwonka, that tension became the foundation of HAUNTERS, the award-winning experimental short film he co-created with his wife, Abby. Fresh off winning Best Experimental Film at the New York Short Film Festival, HAUNTERS explores loneliness, identity, memory, and the


Pamela Never Set Out to Find Their Sound, They Simply Followed the Feeling.
"We are not trees. If you don't feel good somewhere, move," Josh tells us during our conversation. Now it’s a simple sentence, but one that quietly runs through everything Josh and Sarah create. Whether it's leaving behind careers that no longer fit, refusing to force a particular sound, or allowing each song to become whatever it wants to be, Pamela's music is rooted in instinct rather than expectation. With their new EP, It's Nice to See You Here, out today, we spoke about


Stop Letting the Internet Decide Who You Are: In Conversation With Didoriot
"Does what I'm saying actually matter?" It's the question Didoriot asks herself before publishing a video, and perhaps it's the reason her work resonates with so many people. At a time when the internet often rewards speed over substance, her essays pause to examine the cultural shifts hiding beneath the headlines, from AI and the future of work to female loneliness, internet aesthetics, and the identities we're constantly being encouraged to perform. We sat down with Didorio


“If I Was a Girl, I’d Be Pissed Too”: One Man’s Unfiltered Take on Modern Dating
@amedeo_iasci says modern dating has left men too frightened to approach women, too distracted by porn and too obsessed with performing to form real connections. The result is a dating culture that feels miserable for women and remarkably easy for the few men who still know how to talk to them. Around 58 minutes into what was supposed to be a 40-minute (tops!) interview, Amedeo and I were discussing the importance of natural scent in sexual attraction… By that point, we had a


Hollywood Loves True Stories. Just Not From the People Who Lived Them.
They say Hollywood is dying. The articles and Instagram carousels keep arriving, mapping the transition: tech conglomerates owning studios, monopolistic mergers, mandate-driven development, fewer sales, lower production value, AI, productions fleeing, and on and on. The industry that once promised the most original work would rise to the top; that opportunity was endless, that anyone had a shot; looks nothing like what we have now. With so much we are willing to change, it se


The Internet Is Better at Shaming Men Than Guiding Them.
Why millions of young men are searching for meaning, connection, and belonging - and why voices like @hanny_ab are resonating right now. There is a strange contradiction at the center of modern life; We have never been more connected, and yet so many people have never felt more alone. We carry entire social worlds in our pockets. We know where old classmates vacation, what our colleagues ate for breakfast, and who just got engaged despite not having spoken to them in years. W


Why Is Everyone So Afraid of Being Cringe? Tanner Devore Thinks He Knows Why.
Some conversations stay with you long after they end. What began as a discussion about comedy, content creation, and Tanner Devore's viral video The Whimsy Decline: The Rise of Digital Conservatism quickly unfolded into something much bigger: a conversation about what the internet is quietly taking from us. Somewhere between algorithms, irony, and the fear of looking "cringe," many of us have become increasingly hesitant to express joy, take creative risks, or simply allow ou


Everyone Is trying to Network But Nobody Is Building Real Relationships: Interview with Federica Labanca
We were told that success was all about networking, meaning go to the event, collect the business cards, build your LinkedIn, grow your following, and essentially reach out to people you've never met. Networking stopped meaning "building relationships" and started meaning "collecting people." We became obsessed with access, access to founders, investors, creators, editors, celebrities and opportunities. As though careers were built by knowing more people rather than knowing


Getting Dressed Isn't Content. It's a Ritual: Stylist Aida Baez is challenging fashion's copy-and-paste culture.
The New York-based model and stylist isn't interested in chasing trends. Instead, she's building a world where clothes tell stories, getting dressed becomes a daily ritual, and personal style matters more than the algorithm. Fashion has never moved faster. Every week there's a new "core," another aesthetic to replicate and another celebrity wardrobe dissected into shopping links before most people have even had their morning coffee. Trends are no longer seasonal; they're hour


DARINA ON TOP: From Almost Quitting to Creating One of Summer's Biggest Trends
Everyone loves an overnight success story; One video. One song. One trend. One moment that makes millions of people stop scrolling and ask, Who is she? For Darina, that moment arrived with an instinctive dance to Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head. What began as a playful piece of content quickly became one of the internet's defining trends of the summer. Thousands recreated it, the song found a new generation of listeners, and suddenly, her name was everywhere. But
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