Random recs: a Dior watch party, narrative vintage curators, early Hockney, and customer service ‘sludge’
A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…
1/ HURS on how intuitive storytelling and themed curation make for a funner vintage shopping experience (top).
2/ The fashion fan who held a ‘watch party’ for Jonathan Anderson’s Dior debut, and 300 people turned up. Gift link.
3/ Idée Fixe has an excellent analysis of the creator economy’s role in shaping sports fandom. (And it’s just as applicable if you swap ‘sports’ for ‘fashion’.)
4/ Artist Membership Project is a new initiative providing free entry to London’s institutional art exhibitions for artists, art workers and low-income individuals. More info here.
5/ A beauty discovery: Fig & fennel – my new go-to hand soap, courtesy of Orso Hotels in Paris (below).
6/ Customer service ‘sludge’ (aka those deliberate barriers to moving forward) is the reason you end up saying “fuck it” when trying to fix consumer issues. This long read in The Atlantic goes into why getting anything resolved satisfactorily is such a monumental faff.
7/ I missed David Hockney at the Louis Vuitton Foundation during my whistle stop Paris trip, but this fab London show of Hockney’s early work (1960-1963) at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert (below) made up for it. On until 18th July.
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: TURN; Orso Hotels; David Hockney
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