Tailoring quality aside, it's interesting to see how the skin-tight suit went from being coded as metrosexual in the early 2000s (gay, European, twee) to hyper masculine today (warrior, bodybuilder, macho). The transition is inextricable from the fact that most customers don't know much about tailoring and they're buying clothes from MTM operations run by businesspeople who, similarly, don't know much about tailoring. Not a single real tailor in the process.
The young girlies are too brainwashed by the clean girl aesthetic that they're missing out on vital rites of passage. Sleep in your makeup because you're too drunk. Snog someone you don't know in a pub. It's OK you won't die
the concept of “jane birkin aesthetic” + other person centred aesthetics always fascinate me, because those people are existing + being them & you’ve turned that into a vibe to imitate instead of putting in the effort to curate your own
The gynecologist Sally Greenwald shares the Silicon Valley preoccupation with optimization and innovation: the conviction that every aspect of one’s life—including sex—must and will improve, like each new iteration of iPhone. https://t.co/QM245XfgYC