Trying this on

November 5, 2019

Listen: Highly Recommended by Gucci Mane

Not much to say about Gucci Mane’s new Woptober II except that it comes, well, Highly Recommended.

Thanks to the try-on influencer

Those who use instagram devotedly may not be surprised by any genre of influencer, but let’s talk for just a second about the accounts that exist to try on clothes. The idea is, mannequins and models aren’t particularly helpful in showing how clothes are going to look on people, so a small class of instagrammers is taking to the dressing room to make it all a little clearer. From a user standpoint, ideally, you’d find a person with a similar body type to yours and solid style and watch them when you need a new something. From a brand’s point of view, these people are walking advertisements for a sweater you didn’t need. In any case, trying on clothes for a living truly sounds like a pretty terrible job, so we’ll grant these kids their brand dollars.

 

Trying on tats

In other excellent news, you can now get semipermanent tattoos because ink is now fashion enough that there’s an excuse to put resources into R&D for this sort of thing. One company called Inkbox is making tattoos out of fruit extracts that last a week (which is effectively the same as a flash tat, minus the flaking) and another company, Ephemeral Tattoos, promises to launch soon with designs lasting three months. So go ahead, go for the face tat. It’ll wash off soon.

LitHub tried it on so you don’t have to

Don’t be embarrassed if you haven’t heard about Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book. No one has. To catch you up, he took a moment to write about his own revolutionary understanding of the climate crisis and the life changes he’s adopted to address it (flying only for work, not play!). Critiques so far have been, “you realize you’re speaking only to the socioeconomically elite, right?” As if to fend off the criticism, he has just dropped a capsule line with Stella McCartney. According to LitHub, pieces include a $530 “We Are the Weather” tee, “$1,595 jumpsuit with Jonathan Safran Foer’s handwriting on it and pair of $595 jeans with sun graphics on the knees.” It all seems a bit children’s-book (that is, lacking nuance), but maybe my views are tainted; ever since the whole Natalie Portman thing it’s hard not to read him as a bit of a doof. But, hey, maybe you’re not reading him at all.

Bring back Sammy Davis Junior Junior.

Margot