Issue
No. 116
October 2, 2021
Listen
Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College
In 1982, Bret Easton Ellis left Los Angeles for Bennington College, a tiny school in nowhere Vermont…
Watch
LuLaRich
Watching the new Amazon docuseries LuLaRich is a bit like rubbernecking at a highway collision. The four-part investigative show…
Layer
Toast
Since Toast was created in a Welsh farmhouse in 1997, the company has been churning out sensible but stylish women’s wear…
Wear
Son of a Tailor
In my world, T-shirts are a necessary evil—basically something to soak up the sweat while working out. Other than that, I never wear…
Scan
Yuka
Turns out customers associate the color green with health. They also gravitate toward terms such as “natural” and “cruelty free,”…
Shop
ViBi Venezia
If you know us at all, then you know that we don’t mess around with slippers. It’s ViBi Venezia or nothing. These supremely…
Listen
Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College
In 1982, Bret Easton Ellis left Los Angeles for Bennington College, a tiny school in nowhere Vermont…
Watch
LuLaRich
Watching the new Amazon docuseries LuLaRich is a bit like rubbernecking at a highway collision. The four-part investigative show…
Layer
Toast
Since Toast was created in a Welsh farmhouse in 1997, the company has been churning out sensible but stylish women’s wear…
Wear
Son of a Tailor
In my world, T-shirts are a necessary evil—basically something to soak up the sweat while working out. Other than that, I never wear…
Scan
Yuka
Turns out customers associate the color green with health. They also gravitate toward terms such as “natural” and “cruelty free,”…
Shop
ViBi Venezia
If you know us at all, then you know that we don’t mess around with slippers. It’s ViBi Venezia or nothing. These supremely…
So Much More than a Shop
“We were young, rich and beautiful, and the tide—we thought—was turning in our favor. We were going to change everything, of course, but mostly we were going to change the rules.” This quote from Marianne Faithfull is posted at the entrance to “Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture,” a new exhibition at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum. In a decade that saw meditation going mainstream and the fashionable world racing helter-skelter toward higher consciousness—often with the help of this or that substance—the boutiques of Chelsea were the dress-up box of the moment. READ ON
The Dutch design collective the Fool outside the Beatles’ Apple Boutique, featuring their mural, in London, 1967.
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Back to Blaxploitation
At their most eye-socking, movie posters in the 1970s mimicked the hard sell of pulp-paperback covers, promising a complete combo package of sex, violence, and uptown flair exploding from the screen. And no other genre of movie poster flexed and flashed its gleaming muscle and hardware with the taking-care-of-business bombast of “blaxploitation,” as urban action films with major Black stars and blistering soundtracks came to be known. READ ON
Fred Pfeiffer’s movie poster for The Mack, 1973, included in “You Won’t Bleed Me: How Blaxploitation Posters Defined Cool & Delivered Profits,” at Poster House, in New York.
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The Real Slim Aarons Kevin McClory, Mick Jagger, C. Z. Guest, and others feature in a collection of the photographer’s glamorous shots
10
Autumn Almanac
A selection of music—some mellow, some spirited—for fall, from Elvis Presley, Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, Darondo, Big Thief, and more
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Richard David Story (1952–2021)
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