Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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Now, it’s Khaite’s turn. The Cate Holstein -designed label is now under the watch of Stripes, one of the few investment firms that regularly takes bets on fashion. Backstage at that show, I asked Holstein how the money has empowered her: I expected her to mention supply chain upgrades or more freedom with show budgets. (The Park Avenue Armory... See more
September Issues
By positive convexity, we mean asymmetric returns. Positive convexity is the quality by which a bond delivers bigger price gains in response to falling yields than it suffers price de- clines in response to rising yields.
And every step along this scripted way will you accumulate more bosses. More people with “guidance” for you, about how you can juice the numbers long enough to make it someone else’s problem to keep the air castle in the sky inflated and rising. But of course it isn’t just guidance, once you take the money. It’s a debt owed, with all the nagging... See more
Reconsider
Thomas Gold was a professor of astrophysics at Cornell University and one of the most interesting scientists of the 20th century. He had a notable penchant for diving into completely new fields and developing hypotheses utterly at odds with the scientific consensus of the day. His many achievements include correcting the understanding of how the... See more
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
What really works in American fashion is consistency. I’m usually pretty bored by Ulla Johnson ’s shows, but on Sunday morning I couldn’t help feeling dazzled by her three-dimensional florals and dizzying zig-zag knits. (Made me think she’d be a great designer for Missoni, but that brand needs help, and she’s too smart to take on some impossible... See more
September Issues
this needs to go in the article about the missing story behind the Saint Laurent name that Chanel — of the same time period, it can be argued, (YSL and Lagerfeld being direct contemporaries) — has done well with
"The Fed's own data," observes the August 29 edition of "Early Morning with Dave" (David A. Rosenberg, of course), "show that bank-wide credit card delinquency rates have gone from 1.84% a year ago to 2.43% in the first quarter of 2023 and now to 2.77% in the second quarter. This is also before we have even seen the onset of higher unemployment--is... See more
“Whenever you think you’ve seen it, there is another hidden room. Little by little, one discovers, floor by floor, more and more secret spaces – and I am sure I still have not seen all of them, filled with books upon books. It’s almost paradise. I’ve always thought of the König bookshop as a sort of paradise.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist • WALTHER KÖNIG, Cologne
What Interview became, over the decades, was unmistakably Warholian: a celebrity magazine as art object, in which fame was the raw material. Famous people, by virtue of being famous—or declaring themselves so—were inherently interesting, so why not recruit them into the art of conversation?
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
One thing that could help us close that remaining gap is a carbon tax—something universal, fair, and relatively simple. Paired with positive incentives for renewables, a price on carbon creates a negative incentive to generate emissions. I recently tuned in to a training session from Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which made a strong case not just for... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
taxing households so beyond political suicide — adding yet another tax that will impact citizens rather than corporations — and is exactly the sort of thinking that the climate lobby will fail for