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September 22, 2026·Edition 48

Is Canada becoming European?

Internet Microdoses

Donatella Versace is starting a new brand without Versace. She's teaming up with Revolve, the internet's influencer-stocked retailer, on an independent beauty-and-fashion venture. We won’t even know the name of the label until next year. Here’s everything we do know →

Celery is the color of 2027, according to Sherwin-Williams. The other paint brands would beg to differ: Behr picked olive, Valspar blue, and Graham & Brown dusty pink. Pantone hasn’t weighed in yet. Think brat green, just a little calmer. See the shade →

Canada might become Europe’s first “associate member” as Trump’s tariffs strain its relationship with the US. The status doesn’t exist yet, and it might take years to define, but Canadians are already celebrating. Quebec already has Franglais — just wait until you hear Italbertan or Sask-Croatian. Inside Canada’s European flirtation →

The house Norman Foster designed for himself is for sale. La Voile, on the French Riviera, has a seven-meter glass wall that slides open to the Mediterranean with canvas sails for shade and a Richard Long mural. The asking price is €29.5 million. But window-shopping is free →

George Lucas has opened his spaceship to the public. He spent more than a decade building a curving, spaceship-like museum in LA. You’ll find Norman Rockwell and Frida Kahlo paintings beside Star Wars props and the mythology library that inspired his hero’s journey. A long time coming, in a galaxy not so far away. See if you can spot Nathan Fielder at the grand opening →

You can now visit the largest Roman wall mosaic ever found. Buried beneath Rome’s Baths of Trajan and dug up back in the 1990s, the wall climbs 10 meters high. Archaeologists say they still haven’t reached the end of it. When in Rome →

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Aesthetic Study

Microcinemas

Low Cinema opened last year in a windowless former barber shop in Ridgewood, Queens. It’s the neighborhood’s first new cinema in nearly a hundred years. Inside: 42 secondhand seats, a papier-mâché E.T. that co-founder John Wilson (yes, that John Wilson) made by hand, and a framed counterfeit ticket someone bought off Facebook Marketplace. The ticket scanner beeps on purpose. They had a developer add the sound because a beep reassures people their ticket actually went through.

There are others like it all over the world. Los Angeles went from one and a half microcinemas to five or six almost overnight, by one distributor’s count. In Ridgewood, a couple nailed a bedsheet to a rooftop and called it a theater. In Toronto, video store Eyesore Cinema can seat up to 40 people for its off-kilter programming. The rooms all look alike: mismatched chairs, a popcorn machine, an iPad for a box office, 16mm nights, walls papered in flyers.

In cinema’s earliest days, screenings took place in storefronts and tents, with wooden planks for seats and a projector whirring at the back. The microcinema brings that back. The person who picked the film is right there — introducing it, running the projector, working the door. No megaplex glow, no teens talking through the third act.

The programming helps too: films too small or too strange for anyone else to book. The real threat is popularity. And, of course, developers. Whole Foods has signed a 15-year lease in the neighborhood, prompting Low co-founder Cosmo Bjorkenheim to joke: “maybe they’ll put an Alamo next to the Whole Foods.”

  • A guide to Brooklyn’s microcinemas
  • Watch the trailer for John Wilson’s The History of Concrete
  • London is getting its own microcinema in Peckham
  • Rent hard-to-find films at the Letterboxd Video Store
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September 22, 2026·Interview

Cat Morrison

A Melbourne creative director on non-linear inspiration, art-school misfits, and refusing to shrink.

Cat Morrison
Cat Morrison

A moment with

Cat Morrison

A Melbourne creative director on non-linear inspiration, art-school misfits, and refusing to shrink.

For Cat Morrison, inspiration doesn’t run in a straight line. Her mind holds onto everything — images, smells, ex-lovers’ faces, a thing someone said six months ago — then resurfaces it in her work. As a Melbourne creative director, photographer, and strategist, she builds brands and tends her own through her platform, So, and pressed-flower practice, Sophemera. She’s preparing to direct and photograph a fashion shoot with Springtime Wishes. Here, Cat shares the places that reorient her, why she was terrible at art school, and a reminder not to make yourself smaller.

Three places you’ve felt inspired by.

This is tough because inspiration is never simple, is it? The idea that you can go somewhere, extract something from the experience, then go home and make something beautiful — all in a straight process with a clear beginning and end. This is why I was terrible at art school. I could never satisfactorily explain where the artwork began. For me, it is more like osmosis: I'm kind of constantly absorbing. Inspiration is a big soup that I have access to but can never really empty, so when you ask about places that inspire me, they're more places that reorient me: 1. my little garden in Melbourne (Narrm), with my hands in the dirt; 2. the Australian bush, in all its strange, ancient beauty; and 3. anywhere I can see, hear, and feel the ocean.

What's your hot take?

Most, if not all, of modern malaise is due to the human animal being kept in profoundly unnatural environments and cycles.

Tell us more about your creative practice.

My creative practice is the result of a life spent trying to earn a living while keeping pace with an evolving industry. Professionally, I work across creative direction, photography, copywriting, and strategy — building worlds, or what I call the “soul,” for brands. So I’m a bit of a shapeshifter, but as I get older, I’m less and less interested in defining the medium. I’m a creative person; the output just takes different forms. Alongside my commercial work, I have personal outlets for expression, including my pressed-flower project, Sophemera, and my platform, So.

Who is your forever inspo?

Impossible to narrow it down to a single name. But I will say I’m forever inspired by dialectical thinkers and anyone with a deep affinity and gentleness towards all living things.

Write us a fortune cookie.

If you are an ocean, be an ocean. Don’t be a pond just because people can’t swim.

Check out Cat on Instagram and Cosmos →

Object Love

Inflatable Flower

Inflatable Flower

Terrence Zhou’s flower sits inside a translucent, egg-shaped balloon — hot-pink petals and an acid-green stem, softened by the plastic until they blur, in the colors of a corner-store sweet. Born in China and based in New York, Zhou is the designer behind Bad Binch TongTong, a fashion label known for ballooning dresses, octopus skirts, and mermaid tails. He studied math before fashion, which might explain his mastery of geometric shapes.

Here you can make out the flower but never quite see it. The shell holds it just out of focus, like a specimen you’re not allowed to touch and barely allowed to look at. A clear photograph of a flower is one thing, but this one evokes memory and feeling.

Quick Hits

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  • AMC turned a Street Fighter haircut into a wearable popcorn bucket
  • A British studio gave the classic Fiat 500 a modern makeover

Community Question

Last week we asked, what’s something you find beautiful that nobody else seems to notice?

Here's our favorite reply:
Grace James said: “The way the light hits the tops of trees or buildings as the sun is rising or setting. I live in New York City, and it’s so easy to be focused on what’s at eye level or look at the ground as you walk around… But when it feels safe to do so, I love to look up on a clear day in the morning and the evening. The yellow, pink, or orange light hitting the leaves as they sway in the breeze or a stone building facade makes me feel softer toward the chaotic city I call home… There’s a bit of magic and beauty on every corner if you pause and take a peek.”

Now for next week:
What did you love as a kid that still shapes your taste?

In light layers,

Tania 🍂