I’d like to think I’ve got a talent for understanding how hype and momentum are built. I learned this skill set by doing. I picked it up simply by being a cool kid working in the trenches of the business of style. How does hype turn into capital? Well it’s complicated. Consider two significant trends […]
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Day 961 and Repeating 2003
Greetings, citizensWe are livingIn the ageIn which the pursuit of all valuesOther thanMoney success fame glamourHas either been discreditedOr destroyedMoney success fame glamourFor we are living in the age of the thing Felix da Housecat for the 2003 film “Party Animal” I wasn’t a club kid in the Iraq War era. I had not yet […]
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Day 552 and Consumption
When I was emerging into my teens and early adulthood in the aughts I was fascinated by style. Coming from a small town in the Rocky Mountains, populated by hippies and techies, I’d had little exposure to fashion or cosmetics. Gore-Tex jackets, rainbow sarongs and Tevas had more purchase on the imagination than twin sets […]
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Day 1803 and Anemoia
You know I am old as I just don’t consume or create short form video content. Every new trend that filters to me on Twitter or on my reader feeds presents as sadness to me. I don’t fully understand them and probably never will. The newest TikTok trend involves Zoomers pretending to be happy millennials […]