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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BW: We’ll say “in his private life he is taken. In business, he’s on the dating apps.”
PD: Open marriage.
PD: Open marriage.
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
The tape recorder (which Warhol called “my wife”) was always on, fashioning one-act plays out of casual conversations—the journalistic answer to found art.
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
They sort of combined Clinique and Supreme. The Clinique side was that it was this easy, relatively affordable, but still aspirational beauty system that could feel like it was meant for a [younger] generation. The products were effective if not insanely innovative. And the packaging and aesthetics around it felt completely of-the-moment and cool.
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Amy Odell • Inside the Rise of Emily Weiss's Glossier
“Getting a yield of less than 1% to lock up your money for up to 100 years might not sound like a great deal,” Bloomberg led its story about the com- ing of the Austria 0.85s, in June 2020, “yet the rush for safety means Austria’s century bonds [i.e., the 2.1s] have nearly doubled in value so far. That’s why the nation’s sale of new debt that... See more
My advice for anyone who feels self-conscious about their age would simply be: don’t get botox, get divorced.
Proenza Schouler’s first big business win was the launch of its PS1 bag. Introduced in 2008 on the back of an investment, the schoolboy satchel — often rendered in a matte, worn-in leather — became a foundational piece in the wardrobes of thousands of women. For several years following the launch, the bag accounted for 80 percent of handbag sales,... See more
The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler
At times, three to four new essays by Publius appeared in the papers in a single week. Garry Wills observes that this fast pace of production "overwhelmed" any possible response: "Who, given ample time could have answered such a battery of arguments? And no time was given."[