Hive Minds and Frankie Girls
Hive Minds and Frankie Girls
“but this is an alaïa!”
The new Wednesday Addams’s wardrobe includes a vintage Alaïa prom dress; Twitter alternative Hive nears 1 million users after a surge of sign-ups; the Drunken Canel is ending its (incredible!!!) run in December; and the people want a Balenciaga and Supreme collab.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE FRANKIE SHOP, bof
A great peek behind the curtain of seemingly every influencer’s favorite brand: Frankie Shop, founded by Gaëlle Drevet, whose “French girl” aesthetic permeates through her label.
The brand’s hero products, which include quilted jackets, monochrome tracksuits, oversized blazers, T-shirts, and cargo pants, are frequently seen on Instagram influencers alongside the hashtag “Frankie Girl.” Even more impressive is that though the brand is an influencer favourite with a wide presence across social media — a million followers on Instagram alone — Drevet rarely does paid partnerships or collaborations.
FOR SHOPPING, PHONES ARE COMMON AND INFLUENCERS HAVE BECOME A FACTOR – ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG ADULTS, pew
91% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 49 say they buy things online using a smartphone, compared to just 48% of those 65 and older. Further, 54% of 18- to 29-year-old social media users say influencers impact their purchasing decisions a lot or a little — and that figure jumps up to 62% among female social media users between those same ages.
DUMPSTER DIVING TO SHAME STORES AND FIGHT WASTE, nyt
Dumpster divers like 31-year-old Anna Sacks, a former investment bank analyst, “have started posting videos of their haul on TikTok in recent years as a way of shaming corporations and raising awareness of the wasteful behavior.” A search of #dumpsterdiving on TikTok brings up tens of thousands of videos that collectively have billions of views.
TIKTOK IS STILL HIRING AS COMPETITORS SHED JOBS, wsj
While Googlers are making memes to deal with the looming threat of job cuts, TikTok is adding 3,000 engineers, with plans to specifically boost headcount at their Mountain View, Calif., hub.
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING FUTURE OF COLLEGE, vox
The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.
In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. Traumatized by uncertainty and unemployment, people decided to stop having kids during that period. But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses everywhere.
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