Why the Met Gala still matters

Beyond simply copying her outfit, which isn’t the point, it speaks to a broader shift in consumer behavior: We want to hear from people, not corporations.

Fashion Month—which kicks off with New York Fashion Week before moving on to London, Milan, and, as of this week, Paris—is a flurry of shows, events, dinners, and parties (assuming you’re lucky enough to attend). Unfortunately, it’s rarely as riveting for those following from afar. These days, “reviews are mainly fluff pieces,” as designer and styl... See more

Warhol’s Factory, it is not. That being said, events like Ariana Grande’s Fortnite concert and a number of genuinely beautiful NFT collections, like graphic artist Ezra Miller’s Solvency series, suggest there is scope to create something exciting, youthful and important amid all the clamour. Maybe the problem is simply that Zuckerberg and Co’s imag... See more

The peak of consumerism as performance is Ye x Julia Fox “Date Night,” leading into Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collab. Life x culture x art x commerce.

Carmen Merport Quiñones - camp’s most characteristic qualities—theatricality, extravagance, and a “seriousness that fails - Since the Met has us all talking about camp, we might recall Susan Sontag’s admonition, in her famous essay on the subject, that “To talk about Camp is…to betray it.” - due to Sontag’s initial ‘betrayal,’ camp has long been a ... See more

In short, with democratized access, the web became more saturated than ever before, and as consumers, we began to spend more and more time trying to sort through it all. In a state of analysis paralysis, how do we disaggregate signal from noise?

This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increas... See more

While these payments add another revenue stream for influencers, analysts say brand partnerships will remain as a source of credibility.