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1. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

   I’ve Given This Industry Fifteen Years. This Week I Watched It Take the Mask Off. (opens the original)

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   I watched it the way everyone else did. On a phone, standing up, in a hallway I wasn’t really supposed to be standing in, with a steamer cooling at my feet and forty minutes until someone needed to be dressed.You’ve seen it by now. PETA protesters walk out onto the runway at the COS show with signs about sheep. And then a well-dressed man is on the floor with one of them. His hand is over her mouth. His legs are around her. He is not security. He is Steven Kolb, the Chief Executive Officer of th

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2. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

   Early Dismissal (opens the original)

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   I was nine years old and in the third grade, and my little sister was in the first grade.That’s what September meant to us. Sneakers that still squeaked and that time lit up. Backpacks that still smelled like the store. Name tags taped to our desks. My dad did drop-offs and my mom did pick-ups. That was the law of our house, as fixed as gravity, and in the first week of school it felt like the whole world ran on that schedule.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and su

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