“What’s aspirational has changed,” says Beth McGroarty, research director at the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute. Pressures to be perfectly happy, beautiful, and “healthy” are being replaced with a more realistic, relaxed, and less consumerist culture.
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If every city has a culinary punch line, it’s easy to identify Los Angeles’s: Erewhon, the cultish chain of grocery stores, where a half gallon of “hyper oxygenated” water will run you an unconscionable $25.99
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Stores are becoming restaurants, and vice versa, writes Emilia Petrarca in her Shop Rat newsletter. You can get matcha at Uniqlo, cake at Alaïa, or champagne at the new NYC branch of the French department store Printemps: “People are dying for something to do and a place to hang out.”