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The Weight Beneath (opens the original)
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Two ideas have been circling each other in my mind lately, and I think they are the same idea wearing different pants. The first is about relationships - the quiet power of choosing to believe your partner or friend is in a good place, of approaching the person you love and care for with confidence rather than suspicion, and how that single choice creates the conditions for something real to grow instead of something fearful to take root. The second is a theory I was recently made aware of and t
The Water's Knowing (opens the original)
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Letting go and telling yourself you have let go are not the same thing, and the distance between them is wider than we tend to admit. You can see it - in yourself, in the people you love - the voice is steady, the words are right, but something behind the eyes has not moved. The language has surrendered. The body has not. And I think this gap - between what we have convinced ourselves we feel and what we actually feel - is one of the most quietly destructive things a person can carry.I have watc
WESTERN THAT WORKS (opens the original)
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Imagine my surprise when, during Tibi’s Spring Summer 2027 runway presentation, I recognized a model I’d seen a few days before at Texas Chicken & Burgers in Bed-Stuy. He looked cool then—clearly a model, wearing a long-sleeved heather grey crewneck shirt, relaxed medium wash jeans, and black flip-flops—and carried that same sensibility into this season’s offerings, as if they were his own clothes. Quite easily he could’ve strolled out of the show and into the less fashion-congested streets of C
Behind The Music - Tibi SS27 Runway (opens the original)
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When I first received word that Amy and Traci were traveling to Nashville to source inspiration for our Spring 2027 Runway collection I got excited. Yes, sure, because the clothing, conceptualized through a western themed lens, would be right up my alley - but also because of the music that I knew we would look to in scoring our Runway show. For timeline context, I started curating our inspiration playlist in April. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image
Senses of Home. (opens the original)
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We try to make sense of things that even the most sophisticated people inquirers or interventionists would struggle to dig up. Who, for example, can sufficiently explain why as a child I was always drawn to locales outside my own? Stitched in my mind are images of my 101 Dalmatians birthday party and bed set. I just loved that movie. Maybe it was the polish with which Roger Dearly pronounced “Pongo.” No doubt it was Pongo’s townhouse. (I once had a stuffed animal named after the character.) I vi
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