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A Melbourne creative director on non-linear inspiration, art-school misfits, and refusing to shrink.
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From a Berlin stage to a Shanghai book deal, Blake Abbie is always someone else. Here, briefly, he’s just himself.
A Brooklyn vintage shop owner making the case for clothes built to outlast their own moment.
A designer with a cinematic eye for warm, lived-in spaces, the kind of rooms whose mood hits you the moment you walk in.
The Belgian eye behind a viral concrete house, now shooting for GUBI and Rimowa and casting his own concrete home objects.
We spent forty years perfecting signs no human touched. Now we pay a premium for the ones that show the brushstrokes.
How Lagerfeld’s 2016 “Chanel Data Center” predicted the decade fashion and big tech would spend in bed together.
How "goth" got flattened into a beauty trend, and why that might actually be good for real goths.
From kintsugi to Balenciaga, the fastest way to look real is to look ruined.
Keep the room and the strangers, drop the napkin-folding, and pay only for the part you came for.
Perfume’s cultural shift: once everyone wore the same scent, and now taste has splintered into hyper-niche indie fragrances built on absurdist concepts like wet mushroom, empty library, and hot dusty lightbulb.
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