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This week
💦 Gmail art advisors are OUT
💦 Vorarephilia is IN x
💦 our V day-inspired romantic lust list
Events
🧊15 Feb | 1pm | Julie Peeters and Dal Choda in conversation, Tenderbooks [Charing Cross]
🧊16 Feb | 12-6pm | Fermenting: RCA Glass & Ceramics MA presentation, 7 Wetherby Gardens [Gloucester Road]
🧊16 Feb | 8pm-late | minus one: Pretty V (live) / Skins (live) / Gribs b2b MOBBS, curated by kast, Institute of Contemporary Arts [Charing Cross]
🧊16 Feb | 6-8pm | Ebun Sodipo: Nasty Girl (The Sharpest Girl in Town) VO Curations [Oxford Circus]
🧊16 Feb | 6:30-9pm | Tomas Harker: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter [Nine Elms]
Hot links
📧 “They are like shapeshifters… they’ll adopt any form that best suits their desire to transact” – Gmail art advisors are a dying breed; a phenomenon that tracks inflation, according to artnet. Most people who recently took it upon themselves to print out business cards reading ‘art advisor’ will soon ‘disappear back into the woodwork never to be heard from again...’ RIP hustlers.
🍭 “syrupy choral pieces and brushes with 80s pop” – TANK mag have invited Waterbaby to deliver us this hazy and ethereal mix of surreal electronica to read/write our newsletters to.
🥩 “he is, by his own admission, guilty of being an asshole” – An unprecedentedly long but interesting discussion on the saga of Armie ‘I wanna eat your ribs’ Hammer. The guy sounds like a terrible role model but what is most interesting, AIRMAIL posits, is how should awful-but-probably-not-cannibalistic people be reintegrated after terminal cancellation…?
✝️ Kim wages war with the ghosts of every superstar that came before her – From Mariyln Monroe’s dress to Diana’s jewels and MJ’s trilby, Kim Kardashian is collecting artefacts from celebrities past, like hunting trophies on her quest to become the only celebrity. As Kim plays the nostalgia loop, looking to talismans of capitalist-culture-past rather than creating new imagery, Thom Waite asks ‘is this the end?’
💸 “There’s something haunted about the Apple Store in my hometown mall.” – ‘My Explore page is split, bipolar, between people dressing like knockoff Ke$has and people dressing like “old money” à la Blair Waldorf, nostalgic for first-gen Gossip Girl…’ writes Adina Glickstein in this luminous rumination on Neostalgia for Spike. Eat your heart out Kim x
V DAY Add-to-cart SPECIAL <3 <3 <3
In lieu of a review this week we bring you a round up of our favourite V day-inspired wishlist gems. You’ll be pleased to hear there is absolutely NO ‘valentino’ pink on this list, but plenty of goodies to treat your friends, loved ones, and most of all yourself xoxox
1. Sunnei Art Direction tees
Will you be skipping the romantic dinner to work late on Tuesday? Are you married to your job? Sunnei’s tees let you wear your commitment to the grind with pride, with their bold slogan shirts with titles like ‘trend forecaster’ ‘BUYER’ and ‘Free-Lance’ emblazoned on the chest. Given the season, it’s the ‘(he)art director’ design that we’ll be eloping with. £136, here.
2. Sage Flowers Subscription
Peckham’s Sage Flowers have captured our hearts ever since we set our eyes on their striking, sculptural designs. Treat your beaux (or yourself) to fresh flowers delivered to your door for 3 months. Choose between Sculptural, Natural, or Pink themes. £120, here.
3. Fake Gucci Watch Sponge Bob trainers
James Wallace Online aka Fake Gucci Watch aka Haunted Starbucks’ latest release in his postmodern, post-taste, extremely online fashion offerings are as cringe-inducing as ever. These DC-esque trainers, emblazoned with everyone's mum's favourite wall-decal Live Laugh Love, and spongebob, holding a stack of benjamins. They’re garish, yes, but hey - love is blind. $150, here.
4. Viscose Journal Issue 4 - TRANS
Our Fave Fashion Journal has finally released their 4th issue – this one focussing on the multifarious ways trans-ness intersects with fashion. Guest edited by Alex Esculapio and Che Gossett, with contributions from Sin Wai Kin, Dara Allen and the Museum of Transology among many others, we can’t wait to get stuck into this important look at trans-cultural production. £25, here.
5. Meth Fountain Horny Cap
Whether you’re getting some this V day or not, all this talk of love is sure making us feel something. But, sometimes we find it hard to express ourselves, to tell others how we really feel. Artist Seth Fountain (aka @methfountain) has got you covered, with his iconic Horny cap. $45, here.
6. JW Anderson penis keyring
These iconic keyrings have been on our wishlist for a while, maybe this is the year our pierced leather keyring dreams will come true? From £140, here.
7. Custom made love letter from the libidinous editorial team at Middle Plane.
We can’t vouch for the content but for £150 it better be scorching! We’re talking Sappho’s Fragment 38 but ‘told through the visual language of fashion in ways that are unpredictable, critical and new’. Hopefully. £150, here.
8. Gregory’s Girl
Spending the evening in? Curl up on the sofa and stick on this cheesy rom com full of dodgy mullets, football hunks and weird interludes featuring penguins. Set in Cumbernauld on the outskirts of Glasgow, this 80s classic directed by Bill Forsyth is a classic tale of teen love. Watch on Mubi
See you next week, lovebirds xx