It is one that's dominated by in-house client mediocrity factories, lowest-cost content bullshit artists, automated intent fracking, and business portfolios increasingly populated by the withered corpses of once vibrant and profitable brands.
If your style is meant to help you express your priorities, and your priorities exclusively concern being stylish, what does your style express? Can clothes express...clothes?
I read new fiction, as I knew writers must, but the stuff that everyone was talking about back then was written by men - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Philip Roth. I read them dutifully, and admired them, but I couldn’t see any way into that world.