In the era of Instagram, we are inundated with images–fashion photos, friends, food, landscapes–in an ever-updating feed that is never short of new information. The divide between online and real-life chaos feels so porous, and my decision to move into the sensory overload of New York City hasn’t made this less true. But as a…
Category: Interviews
A New (er) Look at French Girl Style with Neïla Romeyssa
Once when discussing branding with a mentor, I brought up uber-popular French girl of the fashion world, Jeanne Damas, and asked what I suspected was a stupid question: “so I understand that her thing is that she’s French but…isn’t she not the first French girl people have ever heard of?” In a much kinder and…
Dream Weaver: A Dialogue with Photographer Hana Haley
Lately I’ve been meditating on the importance of attribution and the acknowledgement of creative work, and I’ve started to wonder if maybe I chose blogging because it allows me to basically be my own watermark – prioritizing my image. That being said, I know that not everyone is as much of a barely-closeted narcissist as…
Pretty Tough: On multiplicity and Handyma’am Goods
Maybe I’m not alone on this, but I often find myself torn between wildly different “looks” as I try to develop my own unique sense of style. Sometimes, in the current Instagram-lifestyle-brand fashion world, I feel like I’m that friend who was fine with casually dating until I noticed that everyone else had seemingly already…
Which Came First, Style or Lifestyle? Spotlight on Kelsey Weller
One of the reasons I started this blog was to create a space to talk about fashion and style in a more complex way than what I find on many other fashion blogs, where style seems to exist in a superficial vacuum (ambiguous shots fired). On these fashion blogs (and they are not all fashion…
Hai Bà Trưng: The powerful style of Tori Huynh’s Vietnamese biker gang drama
Throughout human history, narrative, a.k.a. storytelling, has not only been a tool for understanding the world around us (see: any creation myth) but also a way to understand other perspectives. We get carried away in experiences we could never have in our real lives (see: any movie about suffering, heroism, or revenge), but we have…
Being a Maximalist with The Scarlet Bob
Minimalism has its appeal: it can be a wardrobe reset, relieve the stress of getting done-up, and can deliver some peace of mind to the day-to-day hustle of life by making the decision of what to wear a bit easier. But for some, keeping it simple is more of a demand than a respite. What…
ISO Serenity with Lucia Zolea
Lucia Zolea ft. Na Nin If there is one thing Lucia Zolea wants to contribute to this world, it’s more romance. Zolea is a student, photographer, and freelance stylist based in Richmond, Virginia, and her starry-eyed aesthetic calls to mind the emotional tunnel-vision of first love. She has become the darling of daydreamers (more than…
The Heart of The Incredible Heat Machines
Jefferson Harris and Robalu Gibsun are challenging the perceived division between the musician and the artist. Their album, Incredible Heat Machines—the debut product of their combined work as the hip-hop duo “Soluh!”—is not just a compilation of thought provoking lyrics and head-bopping beats. It is the memoirs of a culture, told through the eyes of…
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