There was a time when fashion tastes were dictated by the discerning tastes, exacting standards, and fashion industry connections of powerful editors like Vogue’s Anna Wintour. However, with the rise of social media, Millennials and Gen Z’ers have become their own taste-makers. On platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram, users create and curate fashion aesthetics …
My mother was, and very much is, a preppy. In her Reagan-era adolescence, the United States was in an aspirational mode, but also fascinated with a certain ‘Old Money’ traditionalism. Growing up in rural Virginia, she was captivated by an idealized vision of the Upper East Coast: an aged Katharine Hepburn in a pair of …
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Yesterday’s Facebook outage – which also saw Facebook owned WhatsApp and Instagram come screeching to a halt – demonstrated the global significance of tech reliance. Indeed, whereas many celebrated the short fall of social media (outside of Twitter, which had some fun at the expense of Facebook), it proved that many are more reliant on …
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