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Dirt: Material girls
Really I think the issue at the root of this existential drama is less about figuring out who you are and how to dress that way – which you’re not supposed to solve; the idea of fashion and more crucially of style is to grant you access to endless experiments, personae and dreams – and more about changing your relationship to what you have and what... See more
OT 98: IS SHOPPING REALLY IMPORTANT FOR STYLE?!
The fast-fashion dynamic puts enormous pressure on consumers to keep up with what can at times feel like a dizzying acceleration in norms. It’s financially exhausting, and requires time to shop, compare prices, and learn to operate new technologies. Fast fashion fosters an unhealthy dissatisfaction with what one has and anxiety about falling behind
... See moreJuliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
You make a world out of the things you buy. Everything you pick up is a potential gateway, a tiny, cosmetic change that might blossom into an entirely new you. A bold shirt around which you base a new personality, an angular coffee table that might reboot your whole environment, that one enormous novel that all the fashionable English majors carry
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