Original Influencers and 'It' Plants

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Billie Eilish fans mistook Damon Albarn for her father on stage at Coachella; Civics for the Culture is Gen Z's Schoolhouse Rock; Joe Biden's numbers are collapsing among Gen Z; and is your wardrobe an untapped asset?

HOW THE ORIGINAL INFLUENCERS DO TIKTOK, wwd
By “original influencers,” they mean fashion magazines. Of the 10 magazines WWD looked at, only two — WSJ., The Wall Street Journal’s luxury fashion insert, and Marie Claire — weren’t yet on TikTok. Unsurprisingly, Teen Vogue has the biggest following at 1.4 million, while its big sister Vogue has garnered the most likes at 17.9 million.

7 FASHION STUDENTS EXPLAIN WHAT COLLEGE IS LIKE DURING A PANDEMIC, teenvogue
“I mean, I feel like a lot of people before TikTok didn't really know about fashion school or hadn't really heard of it or didn't know that it was an option for college. And so I was showing my fashion business classes and my textile classes and people were really interested in it. And I just kept on doing that to the point where it's my full-time job now.”

FROM HER FIRST $100K TO 3 MILLION FOLLOWERS, nyt
Girlboss meets financial self-empowerment: Rather than rallying behind meme stocks or the latest hot crypto trend, [27-year-old Tori Dunlap] is part of a growing tribe of largely millennial women aiming to change the narrative around women and money.

THE 26-YEAR-OLD DROPOUT LAPPING THE HEDGE-FUND FIELD, wsj
Fund manager, startup founder, blogger: Eva Shang’s technology-powered investment firm Legalist Inc. raised about $400 million in the past six months. Its funds focus on private debt, a hot patch of Wall Street populated mostly by men with pedigrees from top investment banks and private-equity firms. 

THE FIDDLE LEAF FIG IS DEAD, nyt
Millennials and Gen Zers “continue to gravitate to rare varieties with a sharper look that often sell for hundreds of dollars in online auctions.” These plant trends are driven, according to the Times, “by an avid group of rare plant collectors and influencers who covet specific varieties the way others might seek out sneakers, watches or whiskey, and display their collections with similar pride.”

THE ‘PLANT MOM’: A PLANT PARENT EXPLAINS HOW THE AESTHETIC MORPHED INTO ZILLENNIAL IDENTITY, screenshot
Real babies are out, plant parenting is in: Among the swelling doomism surrounding climate change, a popular stance among our generation is not wanting children. That’s where plants come in.

WHY 80S COCAINE DECOR IS THE PERFECT DESIGN SHIFT FOR 2022, vice
“No babies here, dude. Just babes.”

One last thought:

Amy @lolennui

oh yeah? if astrology isn’t real then why am I so annoying

April 17th 2022

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