La Deeply Shallow by Laura Kirk De Valencia
Navigating the tension between fashion's frivolity and depth.
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Worn Stories: Cristina Cabarcos (opens the original)
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Worn Stories is an ethnography of dress that offers an intimate look at how identity, community, upbringing, and history shape the language of personal style.~When a couple of NYFW invitations crystallized last month, I moved our October family trip to September so we could take our daughters to New York and cover two shows and one family vacation for the price of one NY hotel stay. Then I worried I would be too distracted to be present for them. I wondered if I was capable of doing it all.<div
At Elena Velez: It is a secular inquisitorial world, we are just living in it. (opens the original)
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Elena Velez’s most recent collection couldn’t have arrived at a more appropriate moment to comment on a culture that speaks so fluently about compassion and things like prison abolition but can also seem remarkably unwilling to redeem John Galliano from the purgatory where he has been condemned to remain per saecula saeculorum.Which is precisely what Velez addressed through her latest collection, SMITE: “weaponized morality.” “Our self-certain notions of good and evil.” “Brutality under the pret
Inside Tibi before the show, the labor behind the glamour, and my morning-after thoughts on the collection. (opens the original)
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Where are you going? A funeral?” Bianca asked me before I left. I was dressed in black, and her comment prompted me to change to my saturated red Raf-era Calvin Klein vinyl cape, which is surprisingly cool in warm weather.<img alt="" class="sizin
What I’m packing for NYFW (opens the original)
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Memory: the space in which a thing happens for the second time. (opens the original)
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A few months ago, I started re-reading Paul Auster and returned to a passage I had marked years ago where he writes about a coincidence involving a man who moves into a small apartment in Paris and later discovers that his father had hidden during the war in that same apartment decades before. Auster refuses to make the coincidence mystical, but he also refuses to dismiss it completely, describing life as “a chronicle of chance intersections,” of random events that reveal “nothing but their own
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