Last spring, around 150 excited attendees of The Row’s Winter 2024 Collection Presentation received a statement from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the label’s designers. According to New York TimesFashion Critic Vanessa Friedman, the statement read:  “We kindly ask that you refrain from capturing or sharing any content during your experience.” 

How dare they?

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For three nights, the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, TN is taken over by an impressive lineup of local and touring artists playing in support of Tennessee’s own Briston Maroney to put on one of the most eclectic, fun-filled and spirit rising shows in the city. Paradise, a festival Maroney started back in 2022, is everything the name leads up to be. With creative set design, a diverse lineup and a room filled with community, the show is an experience that every indie/alternative fan would devour. 

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It’s election week in America. It's the once-every-four-years moment we consider how we view ourselves as a nation. Central to both campaigns is an American myth told over and over again: America is a place where anything can happen, where anybody can pull themselves up by the bootstraps and make something of themselves. A wild west where only the strongest and the fittest sit at the top of the hierarchy.

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In 2014, while promoting her fifth novel, Buzzfeed asked Helen Oyeyemi if she could share one of her personal superstitions. “I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing,” she said. “I'm telling you, it really adds something.” Oyeyemi’s career reflects that superstition: like colored mascara, her writing is quirky and unconventional. As an author, Oyeyemi refuses to allow her words to exist within a singular genre, culture, or aesthetic.

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