THE ELECTION

THE ELECTION

WHAT WENT WRONG AND THE (UGH) BRAT BELLWETHER I don’t style myself a particularly impassioned or even insightful interpreter of politics. But I guess there are some things I know. It’s without any great pleasure that I write that my boyfriend and I were the only two people

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The Unbearable Lightness of Working as a Stylist: Composing Space, Composing Self

The Unbearable Lightness of Working as a Stylist: Composing Space, Composing Self

Some of you may know that for the last several years, my income has come from my work as a set, prop, and wardrobe stylist in the commercial photo and video world. While “wardrobe stylist” or “costumer” are terms that aren’t too foreign to most people, set and prop

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The Year That Indie Died: Art School, Susan Sontag, and the Ready-to-Wear Self

The Year That Indie Died: Art School, Susan Sontag, and the Ready-to-Wear Self

Life in “the digital age” means living with the cliché that history is constantly happening, that technological developments which suggest a fundamental change in how we experience and define human life are constantly being seeded. As a result, it’s often difficult to ground this constant creep of the digital—

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The Year That Indie Died: Art School, Susan Sontag, and the Ready-to-Wear Self

The Year That Indie Died: Art School, Susan Sontag, and the Ready-to-Wear Self

Life in “the digital age” means living with the cliché that history is constantly happening, that technological developments which suggest a fundamental change in how we experience and define human life are constantly being seeded. As a result, it’s often difficult to ground this constant creep of the digital—

By Chris Fernald site logo