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Glamour isn’t beauty or luxury; those are only specific manifestations for specific audiences. Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific, emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience’s hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough di
... See moreDebbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The state of being envied is what constitutes glamour. And publicity is the process of manufacturing glamour.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
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.
Laurel Pantin • Only Boring People Get Bored
When we dress to be photographed, we increasingly dress to be distributed as an image, and thus transformed into a kind of ad.