Elizabeth Segran

Boston

👩🏽‍💻 senior staff writer on the fashion and retail beats @FastCompany |❤️ @BenSchneer & little Ella and Lily | 🎓 PhD UC Berkeley

Articles

Pap smears suck. This tampon-like device lets you screen for cervical cancer at home

1 week ago | fastcompany.com | Elizabeth Segran

As a woman in the United States, turning 21 means beginning a lifelong journey of getting a pap smear every three years. It's not a pleasant experience. You'll lie down with your legs in stirrups, while your doctor inserts a speculum inside your vagina.
What do moms really want for Mother's Day? Paid leave

1 week ago | fastcompany.com | Elizabeth Segran

Many brands take advantage of Mother's Day to sell more products, like flowers and cupcakes. But 50 companies, including workwear label M.M. LaFleur, framing startup Framebridge, and stroller brand Bugaboo, are joining forces to draw attention to America's lack of federal paid leave.
Jeans no trabalho, chique ou casual? Depende do seu estilo | Fast Company Brasil

1 week ago | fastcompanybrasil.com | Elizabeth Segran

Escolher o que vestir para o trabalho nem sempre é fácil. Os dias de rígidos dress codes ficaram para trás. Agora, cabe a cada um decidir o que é adequado ou não. Com o mundo corporativo cada vez mais informal – e o jeans, muitas vezes, assumindo o lugar da calça social –, encontrar o equilíbrio entre o casual e o profissional se tornou um verdadeiro desafio. Chegar ao trabalho com um terno completo pode parecer exagerado e até fora de sintonia com a cultura da empresa.
What if you had one pair of glasses for your entire life?

2 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Elizabeth Segran

Tom Broughton, the founder of the British eyewear brand Cubitts that has recently landed in the U.S., wants to make you a set of glasses that you’ll be able to wear your entire life. “They could outlive you,” he says. That’s a radical notion these days. Over the past three decades, as fast fashion has become the norm, the price of eyewear has come down alongside the price of clothes and shoes.
How do you wear denim to work? Argent and Citizens of Humanity have the answer

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Elizabeth Segran

Getting dressed for work in the morning can be complicated. Gone are the days of the office dress code. While most of us are happy that our bosses no longer dictate that we wear collared shirts, heels, or shift dresses to work, this means the burden of figuring out what is appropriate now lies squarely on our shoulders. As corporate culture has become increasingly more relaxed, with denim often replacing trousers, finding the right balance between formal and casual can be tricky.
What if you had one pair of glasses for your entire life?

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Elizabeth Segran

Tom Broughton, the founder of the British eyewear brand Cubitts that has recently landed in the U.S., wants to make you a set of glasses that you'll be able to wear your entire life. "They could outlive you," he says. That's a radical notion these days. Over the past three decades, as fast fashion has become the norm, the price of eyewear has come down alongside the price of clothes and shoes.
What if you had one pair of glasses for your entire life?

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Elizabeth Segran

My family spent $7,700 chartering a 4-bedroom private yacht in Croatia for a week. It was better than a cruise. Croatia is known for luring travelers to the 1,200 islands in the dazzling Adriatic Sea. To explore as much of the European country as possible in a luxurious way, I booked an island-hopping experience on a private yacht with my parents and husband. We spent about $1,100 a day to charter the whole …
Fralda vem com um sachê que a torna biodegradável | Fast Company Brasil

3 weeks ago | fastcompanybrasil.com | Elizabeth Segran

Quando a Johnson & Johnson lançou a primeira fralda descartável, em 1948, o dia a dia de quem cuida de bebês mudou para sempre. Mas, sem saber, a empresa também deu início a um grave problema ambiental. Fraldas são feitas, em grande parte, de plástico – que se fragmenta em microplásticos, polui rios e mares e acaba entrando na nossa cadeia alimentar.
Henri Matisse's great-grandson is probably your favorite potter

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Elizabeth Segran

Being the great-grandson of the French artist Henri Matisse can be complicated. Alex Matisse grew up in the Northeastern United States, and being a Matisse meant being immersed in art. It's what his family talked about at the dinner table; the walls of his home were full of paintings usually seen only in museums. By the time he was in elementary school, Alex could recite his great-grandfather's most notable works, like and the series.
How Anthropologie saved 60,000 tons of plastic bags from going into landfills

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Elizabeth Segran

These days, when you head to a shop to buy clothes, most brands package your purchases in a recyclable paper bag, which looks more eco-friendly than plastic. But behind the scenes-in back rooms that most customers never see-every single clothing retailer has enormous piles of flimsy plastic bags (sometimes called poly bags). These bags keep clothes clean as they travel across the complex global supply chain before arriving at the store.