J. Danielle

I’m into ideas over trends, and twists and turns that feel individual and practical. I like things that feel a little trashy or tacky, and I’m embracing a new phase of my style that nods to that. I want to get dressed to feel (here it is again) horny, rich, and lazy. Not brat, not mob, not quiet.

In the West, modern museums evolved from so-called Cabinets of Curiosities, which typically displayed wondrous artifacts of the natural world—shells, fossils, plants and organisms—taken from their context and mounted inside. The natural world is sampled and split apart, studied and displayed.

In essence, by saying “marketing” and “creative” are “science”, they are communicating confidence that this will create predictable returns. This is inherently wrong, and leverages a cultural understanding of ‘science’ as something that is predictable. That is not what science is.

Imagine if we could turn off the fear of making something lame. Imagine how much more we'd do.

Where good taste is demure, bad taste is bawdy. Where good taste is minimalist, bad taste is maximalist. Where good taste whispers, bad taste screams: “Look! React! Feel!”

Every year I felt more certain that to succeed in an atomized consumer culture was to fail as a human being.