Internet Microdoses

A TikToker wants to buy Spirit Airlines and is currently crowdfunding the $1.75 billion to do so. The plan? Buy the airline, resurrect it, and let the internet run it. It’s an idea so good, we’re surprised Nathan Fielder’s not involved.

Gen Z is reviving Coach and it’s all thanks to the Tabby bag. Parent company Tapestry raised its annual forecasts for the third time this year. Luxury fashion seemed like it was dipping, but it might’ve just been Gen Z developing their own taste.

Issey Miyake opened a new flagship in Manhattan. Architecture studio SO–IL built it inside a 1928 neo-gothic landmark, replacing the brand’s Gehry-designed Tribeca home of 25 years. Titanium from the old store was too difficult to incorporate, so they hung it as sculpture instead.

The Venice Biennale’s most talked-about piece is a toilet. Florentina Holzinger flooded Austria’s pavilion, put a naked performer in a water tank, and connected two portable johns to a filtration system that feeds visitors’ urine into the chamber. The line is enormous.

Pokémon turns 30 this year, and the franchise continues to go all out with immersive events, a concert series, a merch drop, and a “What’s Your Favorite?” campaign that’s basically a global census of childhood loyalty. For our part, one Cosmos team member archived every Pokémon TCG card ever printed. Gotta connect ‘em all.

Becoming an architect just got more expensive. Federal rules reclassified the degree from “professional” to “graduate,” which caps borrowing at $100K and ends the loan that covered tuition. Bad timing, given how many architects we need for housing and climate work.