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Where Are the Weird Dogs, Indeed?
Prompt No. 63: Cool vs. Anti-Cool, Acquisitions, and Anna Wintour
Feb 23
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Nobody Passes
Prompt No. 62: Identity, Imagination, and Trans-Border Solidarity
Feb 3
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Maybe I Am Not Me: Reconstructing Self for Uncertain Times
Prompt No. 61: bell hooks, Art, and Identity
Jan 12
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The Our Fear of Freedom: American Fashion and Fascism (Part II)
Prompt No. 60: The Disconcerting Consumption of Whiteness
Dec 15, 2025
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Our Fear of Freedom: American Fashion and Fascism (Part I)
Prompt No. 59: Those Tech Bros Signal Something Far Worse than Cringe
Sep 29, 2025
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Presentation, A Political Performance
Aug 12, 2024
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Bulletin: White People are Obsessed with “Taste” and It’s a Problem
Jan 25, 2024
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Luxury, Presentation, and the Myth of Widely Distributed Power, Part I
Jan 13, 2025
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Everyone’s Talking About the Same Thing (And We Are Getting It Wrong)
Feb 24, 2025
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Beyond Polo’s Oak Bluffs
Acquisitions No. 4: Sign Values, Outsider Status, and the Whitest State in the Nation
Sep 8, 2025
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The Uncomfortable Truth of Ralph Lauren’s Oak Bluffs
Prompt No. 58: A Make-Believe World Gets a Makeover
Aug 11, 2025
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What My Mother's Pottery Taught Me
Acquisitions No. 3: Bohemianism, Rick Owens' Favorite Novel, and Handmade Lace Button Downs
Jul 21, 2025
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Anna Wintour is Fashion's Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Other Stories
Prompt No. 58: That Venice Wedding, That Departure, and That Princess Treatment
Jul 6, 2025
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Deep Breath In: Finding Ourselves and The Middle Way in Fashion
Acquisitions No. 2: What Investing in Selfhood Teaches Us
Jun 18, 2025
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Snagged: A Meditation (of Sorts) on Buddhism and Fashion
Prompt No. 57: We're back and I wrote this entire piece without a single Victoria Ratcliff quote.
Jun 1, 2025
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We Understand It and We Don't
Acquisitions No. 1: Postmodern Consumption Case Study, Free Resources, Duran Lantink Fall 2025 Runway, and a Flamin' Hot Cheeto
Mar 10, 2025
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Everyone’s Talking About the Same Thing (And We Are Getting It Wrong)
Prompt No. 56: The Unintentional Misinformation of Personal Style
Feb 24, 2025
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Notes on Nothingness
Prompt No. 55: Format Changes Loading, Jennifer Tilly, British Status Anxiety, S/S Cashmere
Feb 9, 2025
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