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March 4, 2026·Edition 14

Clones. Costco. Cigarettes.

Internet Microdoses

Tech bros get a front row at F/W 26 as Bryan Johnson walked Matières Fécales in Paris, Mark Zuckerberg sat front row at Prada in Milan, and Jeff Bezos showed up at Dior. A stop on the revenge-of-the-nerds world tour, where fashion seems comfortable foregrounding hard, technological, biologically-optimized power.

Apple releases its first-ever budget laptop. The MacBook Neo starts at $599, and was designed by Molly Anderson, who gave it softer edges in a playful iBook throwback that still reads classic Apple. A 13-inch Liquid Retina display, A18 Pro chip, and four candy-colored finishes target students and first-time Mac buyers.

Jim Carrey gets caught up in a clone conspiracy as TikTok lumped his post-face lift look in with a wider wave of “clone” theories about everyone from Selena Gomez to Trump. The rabbit holes kept multiplying—even after Carrey confirmed it was just cosmetic work.

Supreme Court rules against copyrights for AI art. By refusing to hear AI inventor Stephen Thaler’s case, the Court leaves in place a ruling that denies protection to fully generated images with no human author — reinforcing that copyright still belongs to human creativity and the work that trains these models in the first place. The line in the sand is clear: if the artist can’t solve a CAPTCHA, it can’t be copyrighted.

Timothee took a swipe at ballet and opera in an actor’s roundtable, telling Matthew McConaughey he doesn’t want to work on projects where it’s about “keeping this thing alive.” The comment furrowed some brows, while others thought he made a good point — and the Seattle Opera dropped a TIMOTHEE promo code in response.

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Aesthetic Study

Fierce Piercings

Alysa Liu’s Olympics win doubled as a major moment for Gen Z alt girls as she smuggled a can’t-miss mouth piercing into the most conservative sport on TV. Under global spotlights, her gold‑medal grin keeps flashing a frenulum “smiley” she pierced herself. A DIY lore now immortalized in slow‑mo replays and explainers about what’s “on her teeth.” It’s a subtle subversion, bringing an entire history of alt to the world stage: grunge studs, 2000s emo snakebites, and Y2K hardware all at once.

Call it mass indie’s nü-metal cousin — the return of piercing isn’t tied to one niche, but it is relegated to one spot: the center of the face, also known as the triangle of death. You’ll notice it in Odessa A’zion’s septum ring, Shiloh Jolie’s throwback labret, Jacob Elordi’s Saltburn eyebrow ring, and PinkPantheress, whose tiny nose ring and lo‑fi pop soundtrack Liu’s routines.

These are some of the most famous people on planet earth, but pop itself is starting to feel like a new kind of underground — a place where subcultural leftovers circulate freely, recombined on the most mainstream stages. So even as dentists and aunties scramble to Google “frenulum,” Gen Z can’t help but smile.

  • Dazed gives a 25,000-year history lesson on body mods
  • Allure lays out the top piercing trends of 2026
  • Isamaya Ffrench’s beauty label is inspired by industrial piercings
  • And don’t forget the halo hair
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March 4, 2026·Interview

ERM Studio

The ERM Studio designer pouring molten glass into luminaires that scatter light instead of just filling a room.

ERM Studio
ERM Studio

A moment with

ERM Studio

The ERM Studio designer pouring molten glass into luminaires that scatter light instead of just filling a room.

Mexico City–based designer Eduardo Rivas Martín del Campo runs ERM Studio, a practice that produces “functional volumetrics” in metal and glass. His recent project Ciénaga Vidrio extends an earlier cast-aluminum series into poured-glass luminaires. These modular pieces are made with ladled molten glass, steel-and-silica-sand molds, and visible fabrication traces that scatter light across walls and objects rather than just illuminating a room. His work sits in conversation with a broader collection of digitally generated, materially obsessive objects coming out of Mexico City’s design scene. And this week, he sits in conversation with Cosmos.

Where do you go to find peace?

Valle de Bravo, a town on Lake Avándaro, west of Mexico City.

What’s the worst recommendation someone’s given you?

“Focus only on your things and stay in your lane.” No thanks!

What's the last film you watched that moved you deeply?

Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier.

Who is your forever inspo?

Jose Leon Cerrillo (mi boyfriend).

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Find Eduardo on Cosmos and Instagram.

Object Love

Dieter Rams’ Braun Lighter

Dieter Rams’ Braun Lighter

Dieter Rams’ 1968 Braun lighter is what happens when a bad habit gets passed through industrial aesthetics. By now, we know not to smoke, and most rule‑breakers have migrated to vapes, patches, and pouches anyway. But the hardware lives on as an object lesson: a matte, rectilinear brick that strips the Zippo romance out of fire‑starting and leaves only form, proportion, and a tiny, perfectly rational flame.

It’s a vice put through the 10 principles. No chrome flourish, just a pocket‑sized appliance that treats combustion like any other piece of domestic infrastructure. In a culture obsessed with high camp Americana (see: Marlboro collectibles) the Braun lighter sits in the opposite direction: less gag than a reminder that even the most questionable rituals once had a sense of decorum.

Quick Hits

  • Explore 3,220 Chinese cigarette packs on the Ciggies app.
  • You can buy Off-White™ hoodies at Costco™ in Canada™.
  • Take a 3D tour of The Met.
  • Blue Bottle was acquired by Luckin Coffee for $400 million.
  • Documentarian Louis Theroux is Nike’s latest Air Max model.

See you on the boulevard,
Dena