too many trends, not enought taste
a collection of resources for a work article on trends: Topic territory: “Too Many Trends, Not Enough Taste”: Is the Internet’s Tidal Wave of Trends Fueling a New Era of Criticism?
too many trends, not enought taste
It’s nowhere near a capsule wardrobe, but it's madness contained. Me, concentrated. Every piece is either thoughtfully chosen or intentionally kept from a past life, things I plan to have forever and hopefully one day pass down to someone very lucky.
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Taste as self preservation comes through in this article
My closet became less of a project and more of a projection. Transference at its finest.
Before we had vibes, we had the chillier, more Germanic zeitgeist. Both tap into our appetite for locating our lives within a bigger picture. But vibes are crowd-sourced and ground-up, where the zeitgeist was ordained by experts, a trickle-down form of cultural economics.
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The thrill of a vibe is that it leads with emotion, not with spending power. It feels like playing hooky from a world where we are kettled by capitalism.
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Shifting from trends to vibes (especially in fashion) as a shift from spending to emotion.
“We started talking about vibes in September 2020,” says Dr Antonia Ward, chief futurist at trends intelligence company Stylus. “We were looking at how social media was reflecting a more chaotic mood. Before that, platforms such as Instagram had been quite buttoned down and filtered, but something shifted. We began sending a more impressionistic co... See more
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Being sold to can be socially awkward, for sure, but when it comes to corrosive self-doubt, being the seller is a thousand times worse. The constant curation of a salable self demanded by the new economy can be a special hellspring of anxiety.
Opinion | Everything Is for Sale Now. Even Us. (Published 2018)
“There’s little new here beyond the names we’re giving macroeconomically induced changes in consumer behavior and the pace at which we’re casting one meme off for the next,”
Remy Tumin • Tired of Influencers, TikTok Users Try ‘Underconsumption Core’ to Cut Costs
Nothing is new, speed is the difference
The trend is an offshoot of “de-influencing,” which involves creators sharing negative experiences with trendy products and telling viewers not to buy them.
“We need to make a shift in who we’re following,” Ms. Pexton said. “We are in control of our algorithm.”
“We need to make a shift in who we’re following,” Ms. Pexton said. “We are in control of our algorithm.”
Remy Tumin • Tired of Influencers, TikTok Users Try ‘Underconsumption Core’ to Cut Costs
Underconsumption core is a response to being oversold, but it’s also an observed economic behavior that tends to follow periods of economic downturn. Revenge spending - “vibe cession” - Underconsumption core
Microtrends: The Implications of What You See on Your “For You” Page | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
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definition of a micro trend