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Division that revels in divisiveness.
Clean Girls Get Dirty with Djerf Avenue
“The clean girls are cannibalizing each other.” Djerf Avenue’s battle with dupe culture.
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the Minimalist Queen of Camelot
“Picture this: New York City, 1996. It is announced that one of the city’s most eligible bachelors, John F. Kennedy Jr., is getting married to his stunning, relatively-unknown, Calvin-Klein-publicist girlfriend Carolyn Bessette after two years of dating. Your heart is broken, and you are devastated until you take a good look at her; suddenly, she is on your Top 5 People-to-Rob List.”
The Sullivan Party
“Last Thursday night, on the eve of fashion week, the Sullivan sisters launched their brand at Sovereign House, located in an area in the Lower East Side that is now unfortunately gauche to name in any kind of article. As guests began to trickle in, I took a lap around the space.”
The Black Sheep of Fashion Week: An Interview with Olivia Ballard
No, she has no wool for summer - mesh is much hotter. For a slow fashion designer, the maker underneath this thunderous label has been lightning-quick to establish herself on the scene. When I meet Olivia Ballard, who graciously agreed to speak with me, the 27-year-old has recently unearthed her second collection of the year at Berlin Fashion Week.
ASK A DELUSIONAL GIRL: NO. 1
The first installment of Delude Magazine’s advice column, ASK A DELUSIONAL GIRL: This week, we answer your questions about the perils of first love & the endless plague of the 20-year fashion trend cycle.
The Emperor’s Wearing Brandy Melville
Brandy Melville is a study in strange duality.
Founded in the 1980s, the brand didn’t find wide success until the 2010s; launched in Italy, the brand has an overpowering American spirit, with stars-and-stripes patterns, classic preppy silhouettes, and a sister brand bizarrely named John Galt, after Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; now headquartered in Santa Monica, the brand has traded the vivid palette of the California coast for muted, delicate throughlines.