op-ed: fashion magazines no longer care about their audience

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book annoucement! torn: fashion and postmodernism

I am thrilled to announce my new book, Torn: Fashion and Postmodernism! It's a work of cultural criticism that offers an uncompromising look at the state of fashion of the past twenty-five years, and the damage inflicted on it by postmodernist...

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jan-jan van essche: on design and common humanity

Jan-Jan Van Essche, both the brand and the designer, practices the kind of considered, slow design that is often...

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the stylezeitgeist guide to paris: 2026 edition

On some level writing a guide to Paris is an exercise in futility. What can one write about a city where you can get a...

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op-ed: death of a salesman

Various reasons have been cited for the current malaise gripping the luxury fashion industry. The marked decline in the...

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op-ed: fashion in 2025 is what happens when there is nothing left to copy

In his 2010 book Retromania, the music critic Simon Reynolds deftly sketched out how recent pop music had descended...

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