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Lucrative Perks: The Man Repeller on Eating Disorders
Leandra Medine is an icon. The 27 year old of Turkish and Iranian descent describes her self-aware blog, Man Repeller, as “a humorous website for serious fashion.” Its accolades stand up to the description – combining Medine’s signature cheeky humor with the blog’s incredible clout when it comes to educating the fashionably elite. In 2012 Medine added recognition as…
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The Sidewalks Kept Me Off the Streets
We’ve seen it before. We might even have one hanging in our closet or resting in our drawer. The omnipresent Tupac, the illustrious Biggie, peering down on us through well-circulated images of their countenances, plastered on dorm walls and printed on T-shirts. Any college student can recognize these ubiquitous images, state a couple sentences’ background…
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Goodbye to the Porkpie: The Decline of American Hat Culture
John F. Kennedy showed up at his inauguration wearing a fedora. But sometime between his arrival at the Capitol and “ask what you can do for your country,” he left the hat by the wayside: a new-generation president discarding years of tradition and announcing a dark new day for American headgear. At least, that’s the…
