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Who owns a flower? Louis Vuitton and Molly Tea
An archive essay on trademarks, visual motifs and cultural memory.
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The archive
Twenty essays and six journal notes, with their original dates. Earlier versions and links remain available.
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The show apartment
An essay on staging a home for a prospective buyer.
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The life of a designer chair
An essay on chairs, everyday use and collectable design.
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When fashion put away its serifs
An archive essay on luxury logos and typographic resemblance.
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Wabi-sabi in the living room
An essay on imperfection and the way interiors are styled.
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A vocabulary of movement
Five terms for thinking about shifts in fashion.
Chinese original · English body translation pendingFashion / ARCHIVE
From the shows — June 2026
A short archive note on recurring shapes and ideas.
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From the red carpet to the studio
An essay on how magazines frame the people they photograph.
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After quiet luxury
A commentary on visibility, taste and distinction.
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The Paris apartment, reproduced
An essay on interiors, images and the appeal of patina.
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Why fashion, and why now
An early editorial note on the magazine’s choice of subject.
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Très Parisien: printing an idea of style
The original long essay on pochoir, fashion illustration and its circulation.
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A knotted button
A short archive note on the pankou and the names given to clothing.
Chinese original · English body translation pendingFashion / ARCHIVE
Coach and the making of desire
An archive essay on advertising, participation and a younger audience.
Chinese original · English body translation pendingFashion / ARCHIVE
Max Mara in Shanghai
An archive essay on place and the presentation of a collection.
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Two windows, two ways of speaking
A commentary on the way shop windows address their audience.
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From the studio — June 2026
An early editorial note, preserved with its original date.
Chinese original · English body translation pendingFashion / ARCHIVE
Ralph Lauren and the return of “old money”
An archive essay on a brand’s imagined world and its renewed appeal.
Chinese original · English body translation pendingFashion / ARCHIVE
Fashion’s changing creative directors
An archive essay on authorship and the identity of a house.
Chinese original · English body translation pendingFashion / ARCHIVE
Alaïa after Pieter Mulier
An archive essay on continuity and creative succession at Alaïa.
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Why fashion travels
An archive essay on the destination fashion show.
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Pankou, mamian skirts and cultural borrowing
An archive essay on the movement of clothes and their names.
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What clothes do on screen
An archive essay on costume, cinema and fashion.
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The work behind a collaboration
An archive essay on the practical work behind cross-border projects.
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The arithmetic of celebrity endorsement
An archive essay on the relationship between faces and brands.
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Why C33
The original editorial statement, retained as a historical document.
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