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The Nine Archetypes of Appearance and Identity
Mapping the Psychology of Style
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Your Closet Is a Memory Palace
Your closet remembers who you were, and imagines what you might still become.
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Nothing Is Embarrassing If You’re Not Embarrassed
The social hallucination that sustains normality
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You Don't Have Bad Taste, You Have Bad Style
Taste is imagination. Style is incarnation.
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The NEW! Preppy Handbook
the aesthetic of polished leisure, where style is crisp, collegiate, and bound by tradition.
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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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High Status, Low Taste
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Welcome to POSTURE
The private study in identity and aesthetic behavior.
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Inside the Alignment Chart: The Withdrawn Row
Style, when the self retreats.
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High Status, Low Taste
The status of poor style
Sep 9 • 
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David Bowie and the Evidence of Style
Mapped through The Seeker, The Signature, and The Unbothered
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The Forged Maiden
filed under: berserker couture + futuristic femme
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The Most Stylish Person You Know is Faking It
How fashion disguises itself as style.
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Inside the Alignment Chart: The Neutral Row
Style, when the self is unresolved.
Aug 21 • 
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Heavy Is the Head That Obeys
The beauty standard is nothing without you.
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When Repetition Replaces Identity
How signature style can become a trap, and how fluidity becomes mastery.
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Style is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The art of personal style, self-reclamation, and aesthetic philosophy, served up with a subversive twist. Published weekly by Alexandra Diana.
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