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On Style and Trends
"Dick Mathews’ photos of the young Beatles playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, perfectly portray grungy, personal, rebellious side of Rock and Roll that was to come in the following decades. Maybe it’s the dim lighting on brick walls covered in tattered posters. Or it could the spirited looks in the musicians’ eyes as their caught mid jam on the electric guitars and basses. But likely, more than all of that, this quintessential rock and roll mood shines through in the band’s head to toe black leather.
If fashion is a language, black leather screams rebellion." ... |
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"While those who wear black throughout history may be tied together by a withdrawal from fashion standards, it is quite incredible how rebels and artists have taken a color used to show honesty, ethics, and authority, and made it into something edgy, warring, and even sexy." |
I sometimes wonder if young Americans’ draw towards astrological concepts is a buy into one of the systems we like to criticize the most: capitalism. Goods related to astrology and witchcraft are widely marketed especially by companies
catering to young adults. ... Maybe we are being exploited by our consumerist tendencies, but every industry needs a consumer to drive it. There had to be a need for these products in the first place...
I sometimes wonder if young Americans’ draw towards astrological concepts is a buy into one of the systems we like to criticize the most: capitalism. Goods related to astrology and witchcraft are widely marketed especially by companies
catering to young adults. ... Maybe we are being exploited by our consumerist tendencies, but every industry needs a consumer to drive it. There had to be a need for these products in the first place...
...Young people today are scared of our world and its future. For those of us who don’t feel they can turn to religion, it’s no mystery that we would want to grasp onto something else for answers.What’s more, we live in a world where “fake news” is a real thing. We can’t trust the multiple dozens of claims we will inevitably come across everyday. Our lines of science and pseudoscience are being blurred."
"I realized I'd entered a world of luxury. And maybe it was meant to be politely exclusive. There was a dream I could understand, but was distinctly separate from. Perhaps that's what luxury branding is. Perhaps it’s intentional that I walk away wanting to be one of the customers who was offered water or champaign, wanting to be on the inside of the world they’ve created."
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"As many first ladies have done, following the lead of Jackie Kennedy, Obama often chose designers from the country in which she was speaking. But in this case, it went far beyond wearing Chanel in Paris and Prada in Milan. Instead, Michelle Obama reached for smaller names, living designers, with their artistic visions and a contemporary set of ethics. Some labels were well known; Obama appeared in London wearing Stella McCartney, and in Amsterdam wearing Ronald Van der Kemp. But among the standouts were a rusted orange set of silk blouse and pants designed by Fenoel. Or the nuanced salmon pink suit, embellished with embroidered metallic beads by the Copenhagen brand, Stine Goya. This, to me, is what it can look like for women in positions of power to express themselves in a way that corresponds with their ethics and values, and allows for an element of individuality."
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"There is something deeply soothing about the trend. Perhaps the airiness of it suggests a kind of letting go. As consumers begin to pull from the past by buying vintage pieces, I wonder if it may stand to last a while longer. Deep down I know that trends move quickly and the confused agnostic solution of astrology can’t last long. But still, a part of me wants to believe that as long as there are stars in the sky and Stevie Nicks is cool, it must be the season of the witch."
On Art
"When I left my building to see the show on a Sunday morning, I was immediately overwhelmed by Warhol’s world. The things of Warhol’s wonderment were inescapable in my everyday life. Could this eccentric artist really have been some sort of clairvoyant genius?"
"One of the most striking things about entering The Whitney is the way that sound changes as you rotate from Gansevoort Street to the museum lobby. One second it’s street vendors and highway noise. Then the sound of your feet on the glossed cement floors, and you’re in this big, open room brimming with quiet conversation. The world outside the glass wall is incorporated into the space in that strikingly exclusive way."
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Walking into the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea, dozens of 11x14 grey rectangles on large white walls invite viewers to come a little closer, peeking into the window of each frame. These rectangles are photographs by Roy DeCarava, and they make up the gallery’s current exhibition, Light Break, which celebrates the photographer’s influential body of work throughout his career. "
On New York City
"Sometimes I’ll walk around boutiques and art galleries on my own with no intention of buying anything. I notice what I’m drawn to without paying much attention to those around me. I smile at people for the hell of it and intend to eventually make it to a park or a body of water. Noticing how I act and feel when I am alone in public has a strange way of reminding me who I am. I’ve found no clearer path to true self esteem than enjoying time this way."
The bench gives you the options to stop and sit or slow down and go around. In a chaotic city built around a point A to point B mentality, this is bench designed to slow us down. Actually… the whole park is.
"I often compare walking in New York City to driving. There are no laws or licenses for walkers, but there are still rules. I draw parallels through what I call “sidewalk rage”. I can’t stand being tailgated, cut off, or stuck in traffic regardless if I’m walking or driving. I thought these rules of the sidewalk were applicable in the park until a friend told me that at one point, there actually were streets in place of the park we know today. She explained that the streets of Washington Square were gridded, like most in Manhattan, with no obstacles to choose-your-own-adventure your way through. The change from gridded streets to curved paths was one made strictly for a space without cars. So really, comparing these pathways to streets is unfair to their essence. That’s not the point, and perhaps my crossing the park as a way of commuting is really even a misuse. At the very least it was designed to gingerly suggest that maybe, for just a moment, I don't need to think of myself as a car on a highway."
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"This park has a greater responsibility to its people- it must persuade and inspire leisure. Maybe we can even go as far as to say it must force it. How curious is it, by the way, that New Yorkers would require such a thing as “forced leisure”?"
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On The Free Spirit
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Penny Lane was a self proclaimed “band aid” who goes on tour with a 1970s rock band and falls for the band’s lead guitarist. She is immediately enchanting. It must be her wild blonde hair, or her smile that’s equal parts welcoming and mischievous. As the story goes on, she becomes more irresistibly spontaneous and stylized, finding beauty in everything and everyone. But soon, we begin to see the hurt in Penny Lane and all of her insecurities. During a powerful scene, we see her stomach being pumped over a bathtub in The Plaza Hotel after an almost deadly overdose as Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour plays in background. It’s as beautiful as it is nauseating. " |
"Free spiritedness often comes from some sort of brokenness, and if not it leads to it."
"Her nail polish had chipped into tiny island continents on the sea of each fingernail."
Many female musicians today take note of Nicks’ ultracool persona. Most notably, perhaps, Florence Welch of the band, Florence and The Machine. Welch’s lyrics allude to magic and spirituality quite frequently including the track, Which Witch. Her outfits and graphics always glow with a moody, celestial, free spirit. Lana Del Rey recently released a cover of Donovan’s Season of The Witch. Latest on the roster is Maggie Rogers whose Heard It in a Past Life sticker pack features celestial iconography and defines her as a “Witchy Feminist Rockstar.” Each of these talented, creative women have often reached for those 70’s Stevie Nicks silhouettes, billowing sleeves, lightweight fabrics, long skirts, and star-studded accessories. It’s one of those lovely instances where femininity and feminism coexist in fashion."
"I have always felt that in change, there is not only a thrill, but a sense of clarity."
On Nature
The rain has a way of awakening the ground in the desert. The rocks redden, and the silt invites itself to dance with the little pools of water. Romantic as it sounds, our water filters couldn’t filter silt.
It’s hard to know why we go up mountains. They go up as much as they go down, and sometimes we end up on the same level that we started on. Sometimes we go up for the people we’re traveling with, or for the view at the top, or the animals we’ll see along the way. And sometimes there’s just no other way to get around.
On Females & Feminism
"There’s a fire in her heart as she marches confidently on eggshells, forcefully approaching the edge of something. "
"...from its hand knitted material, to its color, to its name, the Pussyhat doesn’t conform to the typical aesthetic of political power and candor. Just like the movement itself, the Pussyhat challenges ideas of gender that are rooted in society. With the Pussyhat, feminists are no longer forced to masculinize themselves to be taken seriously in their activism. Rather, this hat is a total embrace of femininity and a kind of strength that is uniquely female."