The aesthetic of messy buns, pale blogs, tear-stained cheeks, and movie stills captured about love have found their way back into the forefront of pop-cultural consciousness. The emotionally nostalgic Tumblr girl aesthetic is back, and Moonkissed Collective is spearheading its reprise, coming directly from the perspective of other young women. The brand, started by Yasmin…
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Y2K, Low-Rise and The Return of Skinny
The return of low-rise jeans has brought baggage along with it — the return of skinny, or is it the reverse? Either way, one thing is for certain, a certain sartorial and aesthetic shift toward the svelte and mince is palpable in pop culture right now. All connected to one another, the return of Y2K…
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Whence the humble beginnings of Instagram and the casual snap and share culture of the early 2010s came, there is an altogether different manifestation of our experience of ourselves and our relations in digital spaces which has emerged. One much more insidious, one based on commodification over documentation. Fast forward ten years and we have…
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