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The Nine Archetypes of Appearance and Identity
Mapping the Psychology of Style
Jun 19 • 
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Who Do You Think You Are?
The identity you didn’t mean to broadcast
Dec 2 • 
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The Art of War, I Mean Gifting
The best gifts you could ever give to the people you’re forced to celebrate.
Nov 25 • 
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Your Outfit is Self-Sabotage.
You don’t look like yourself, and you know it.
Nov 18 • 
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STYLE, UKNOWN!
The Psychological Evolution of Anthony Bourdain’s Style and Identity
Nov 13 • 
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The Gift of Being Misunderstood
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Nothing Is Embarrassing If You’re Not Embarrassed
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The NEW! Preppy Handbook
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Old Money: The Epilogue
The private archive of quiet luxury.
Nov 6 • 
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Old Money, the Inheritance of Style
The art of looking complete without effort.
Nov 4 • 
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The 9 People You’ll Meet in Your Closet
The psychology behind why you don’t look like yourself
Oct 30 • 
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The Confidence Scam
How “fake it till you make it” breeds the very insecurity it promises to cure.
Oct 21 • 
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Dressing for the Stranger in the Mirror
When self-awareness becomes self-surveillance
Oct 11 • 
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Your Closet Is a Memory Palace
Your closet remembers who you were, and imagines what you might still become.
Oct 2 • 
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Nothing Is Embarrassing If You’re Not Embarrassed
The social hallucination that sustains normality
Sep 25 • 
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You Don't Have Bad Taste, You Have Bad Style
Taste is imagination. Style is incarnation.
Sep 23 • 
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The NEW! Preppy Handbook
the aesthetic of polished leisure, where style is crisp, collegiate, and bound by tradition.
Sep 19 • 
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