MSCHF ATM and Haute Ugly
MSCHF ATM and Haute Ugly
stability vs flexibility
MSCHF’s ATM leaderboard ranked users’ bank balances at Art Basel (Diplo won); A$AP Rocky just launched a furniture design studio titled HOMMEMADE; YouTube unveiled a trend podcast called “Like & Describe”; and The White Lotus's Portia is TV’s best-dressed character, declares Rachel Tashjian.
THE BEST GIFTS TO BUY BEFORE THEY SELL OUT, ACCORDING TO TREND FORECASTERS, the strategist
From haute “ugly” Christmas sweaters to underwear-as-outerwear to Frankensteinian footwear, the “it” gifts to give and get. Year after year, this is one of my favorite articles to read — more than a gift guide, it’s also an excellent glimpse into what everyone will be wearing and wanting in early 2023.
IT’S ALL THAT YOUNG JOB SEEKERS ARE ASKING FOR: STABILITY, nyt
This feels fascinatingly at odds with everything we know about quiet quitting and Gen Z in the workplace: Handshake, a networking platform used by more than 10 million college students, surveyed about 1,400 recent college graduates and current seniors to ask about their top job search priority, and 73 percent said stability — which makes sense in this tumultuous environment, but I would have thought flexibility would have been more important.
GEN Z TRADERS ARE CHOOSING ALTERNATIVE ASSETS OVER STOCKS IN AN ‘EXTREMELY RISKY’ TREND, fortune
New data shows that young investors are willing to allocate a relatively large portion of their portfolio — up to 25% — to alternative investments, or “alts,” such as cryptocurrencies, artwork, and wine.
TRUE LIFE: MY PARTNER IS OBSESSED WITH NFTS, nylon
”When I asked how he got so good at this, he referenced Pokémon: ‘I was so good at Pokémon cards when I was a little, and I never thought that that knowledge would carry on into my adult life.’”
U.S. ARMY PLANNED TO PAY STREAMERS MILLIONS TO REACH GEN-Z THROUGH CALL OF DUTY, vice
The U.S. Army allocated millions of dollars to sponsor esports tournaments, high-profile Call of Duty streamers, and Twitch events to grow its Gen Z audience — especially women and Black and Hispanic people, according to internal Army documents.
DESPITE STARK GENDER INEQUALITY IN SOUTH KOREA, HOSTILITY TO FEMINISM IS GROWING, nbcnews
“I feel cautious even picking up a feminist book,” said Lee Yunju, 22, a student in robotics engineering. “Lots of Koreans feel very antagonistic toward feminists and feminism, so we don’t even talk about it.”
One last thought:
