18 December, 2025

Could Substack supersede Instagram in the race for affiliate clicks?

Liana Satenstein Neverworns Substack

It’s no secret that Instagram’s strategy is pushing video content over carefully curated fit pics. The result? OG influencers are feeling rejected and dejected. After 10 years of rapid-growth followings lapping up their fashion recommendations (and clicking on their affiliate links), it’s understandable that Instagram’s star tastemakers feel unceremoniously side-lined, not to mention concerned for their future earnings. And there’s not much they can do about it. To paraphrase Francis Fukuyama, it’s the algorithm, Stupid!

The solution appears to be a mass exodus to Substack. (more…)

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3 December, 2025

Random Recs: ‘Unplugging’, Soshiotsuki x Zara, Spud shoes, TURN Paris and more

Zara x Aaron Levine

A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…

1/ Unplug me. I’m never sure if these anti-digital ’trends’ are real or if I’m just seeing them in my echo chamber because I want them to be. Nevertheless, Vogue Business has intel to back up its claim that unplugging ‘has become luxury’s most valuable currency’, reporting that The Global Wellness Summit’s The Future of Wellness trend report named ‘analogue wellness’ as its top trend for 2025. It also reports that 67% of Americans long for the “pre-plugged-in” era, while 79% of US Gen Zs actively aspire to interact more in the physical world. (more…)

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4 June, 2025

Shop the post: COS summer edit

From looking at the back-end of my affiliates (those links that sometimes earn me commission – if people shop the posts), I can tell you that COS* is as popular with Disneyrollergirl readers as it is with me.

And now, we have an idea why. (more…)

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25 May, 2025

Random Recs: Jony Ive, Centre Commercial Outdoor, Gauthier Borsarello

Richard Avedon In The American West

A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…

1/ JONY IVE’S SEXY AI. If anyone can make A.I sexy, maybe it’s Jony Ive, whose company IO is being sold to OpenAI to create desirable devices (think pendants, eyewear…) for the age of AGI (artificial general intelligence). Read more in the NYT (gift link). (more…)