While driving along the highways that branch out of Toronto’s downtown, one witnesses a bewildering contrast of forces; nestled in rolling hills of wheat lie mammoth-sized shipping and logistic hubs.
cultural criticism
Fashion Art Toronto’s SS26 Season Turns the City Into a Runway
Contemporary fashion weeks no longer function solely as industry-facing runway calendars. Increasingly, they operate as temporary cultural ecosystems: part nightlife circuit, part installation program, part retail environment, part performance space, part content machine.
Who Is The “Weird Art School Girl”, And Why Does Everyone Want To Be Her?
Being a writer, poet, or artist is having a massive moment. Pinterest has predicted “poetcore” as a defining trend for 2026; a new “literary it girl” seems to emerge every few months, each with a breakout bestseller; the aesthetics of the “writer in Paris,” the “weird art school girl,” circulate with increasing velocity online.
Celebrating Culture with Compassion: Eat Pray Love’s 20th Anniversary
“Passata Remoto” is an Italian term for events or actions in the remote past that may not necessarily hold relevance in the present.
Exposure Culture: Inside Egghead Republic’s Apocalypse of Ambition
Egghead Republic is a surreal satire set in a reimagined 2004, where the Cold War culminated in an atomic bomb being dropped on Soviet Kazakhstan.
My Genes Are Blue: How American Eagle and Dunkin’ Are Selling Whiteness
Something uncanny has procured itself in the cultural consciousness of American media in the past week, a tonal shift that, although unsurprising given the current political climate, feels jarringly regressive and reactionary; the tipping point, undoubtedly, being American Eagle’s latest campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney as the white all-American temptress clad in denim.