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…