In mythology, literature, and films, an archetypal character is like a personality concentrate. They are the purest representation of a given set of values, virtues and sins, and a lot of the time you can tell who they are because of what they wear: goddesses draped in gossamers, bad boys dressed in jeans and white…
Tag: sociology
Mono No Aware: A Style Analysis of Only Lovers Left Alive
When I do research for these fashion essays, I tend to focus on the way clothing makes me feel before I come up with any kind of thesis. Jim Jaramusch’s 2013 nouveau vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive struck me as a meditation on that particular feeling that something is both sad and beautiful, and as…
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…
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