tracing trends
“Youth culture has driven culture for time immemorial, but more than ever before, female youth culture drives culture,”
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Today, instant gratification, profit and appearances are more desirable than substance, depth or intrinsic worth.
Many are looking for an opportunity — a fitness journey, a new career, a personal awakening that might involve tattoos — instead of something necessitating an intervention.
Millennials mid life crisis is opportunity for progress not desertion.

How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy
youtube.comCuration, taste will be the currency of the times we’re heading into.

I have a theory that the average beauty routine expands in direct proportion to political upheaval. Call it the Aesthetic Index.
Are we heading for a beauty burnout?
The theory of “anti-memes” is about how some of our most intense cultural investments are below the radar—not because they haven’t been found yet, but because that’s how they are built.
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Nuance and complexity aren’t part of our culture anymore. Everything has to be easy, and quantifiable, and simple to understand.
Noah designer, The Cutting Room Floor podcast via TikTok