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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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September 2025

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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Welcome to POSTURE
The private study in identity and aesthetic behavior.
Sep 12 • 
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Inside the Alignment Chart: The Withdrawn Row
Style, when the self retreats.
Sep 11 • 
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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
Sep 4 • 
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August 2025

The Forged Maiden
filed under: berserker couture + futuristic femme
Aug 28 • 
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The Most Stylish Person You Know is Faking It
How fashion disguises itself as style.
Aug 26 • 
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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.
Aug 14 • 
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