Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Ghost Influencer

Influencers, she argues, do not simply advertise products; they perform a deeper ideological labor, personifying aspirational lifestyles and mediating hegemonic values under the guise of personal authenticity.

How might our view of the world be altered by uncanny fashion? We could look to architecture for precedent on this question. Speculative architecture is either a radical way of conceiving unbuilt futures or “the design world’s clickbait,” depending on how you look at it. 

(In The Death of Trends, Vox's Terry) Nguyen is examining a more abstract consequence of this rapid acceleration, which is that it saps trends of their subcultural context, reducing them to status symbols that represent status itself, like a trail of breadcrumbs leading to more breadcrumbs. Her piece is focused on fashion trends, or aesthetic ... See more