“Known for both his openness and his mysteriousness, the rapper, producer — and now actor — keeps people guessing.”
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Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?
“And what the latest swing from skinny to wide tells us about ourselves.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
This Gen X Mess
A fun, ranging package about Generation X. It includes essays on Evan Dando, The Rules, John Singleton, Grunge music and fashion, CK One, among other 90s touchstones, plus a piece in which Caity Weaver rewinds 25 years to 1994 and spends a week only using what limited technologies existed then.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
The Town That Camp Built
“Key West’s brand of camp reflects Wolkowsky’s understanding — never on the nose, always sideways, a place where anonymity feels like an innate right.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Essays & Criticism, Quotes
Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa.
What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Sade’s Eternal Cool
How the soul singer Sade Adu has maintained her pop cultural relevance for more than 30 years.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
#FrenchGirlGoals: Artful Dishevelment and Animal Fats
There’s big money for fashion and beauty companies in encouraging the women of the world to emulate the French Girl.
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How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth Like a French Girl
The origins and consequences of everyone’s favorite Parisian fantasy.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Shopping for Forbidden Fruit
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi writes about proxy services which help Western shoppers navigate the Japanese online marketplace and buy the goods retailers refuse to sell outside Japan.