How To Pack for Thanksgiving Break
It's the night before traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday with bags to be packed and miles to be crossed. Chaotic beads of sweat drip down your forehead while you yank your carry-on out from under your bed. As it sits empty in the middle of your room, you realize you have bigger fish to fry. Politically incorrect grandparents to drown out, awkward confrontations about your love life and a sudden realization that turkey is eaten to celebrate the forced removal of Native Americans. Yippee! Amongst all this pandemonium, the last thing you need to spend time worrying about is having the right clothing for the holiday. And that's what this is for! An all-purpose, all-inclusive guide on how to pack when giving thanks.
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Dressing for Revenge: An Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Midnights Era Fashion
Taylor Swift is a mastermind, and nothing in her album roll-outs is accidental—including her outfits. From the perfect red lip to the latest leg-lengthening bodysuit, each Swift album unveils a new side to the singer-songwriter’s style, and the Midnights era, based on her latest record-shattering release, is no exception. At times shimmering and at others subdued, Swift’s recent looks perfectly represent the album’s basis on a special kind of self-reflection that can only occur in the middle of the night.
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The Alien Era: What does the alien aesthetic mean for self expression in fashion?
This is just it—the alien aesthetic creates a “new world” which allows us to play with, or even completely forget, gendered beauty norms. If gendered beauty norms expect women to have perfect, arched brows, then let’s shave them completely. If there is an obsession with women’s feet, then let’s turn our feet into reptile feet. Let’s show that you can still be gorgeous when you break these norms.
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Are you Good or Evil? Your Happily Ever After Through Fashion
In the seams of Agatha’s and Sophie’s adventures, fashion illustrated their emotional development. Once the two girls arrived home, they returned to their original clothes because they finally, know who they are: maybe a little evil and a little good, but certainly best friends. Fashion allowed for experimentation, social change statements and an expression of identity; Fashion allowed them the versatility to discover the pieces that best fit them, and to me, that’s the magic!
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Youths are the Future: the New Luxury Consumer
Influencers create these micro labels, and the luxury brands behind them use the influencers-driven-micro-labels to target newer, younger consumers. On July 9, 2021, Greta Gerwig announced that she would be directing the live action Barbie movie. Valentino recognized that Gerwig’s announcement reawakened Barbie fans and knew they could capitalize on an audience obsessed with Barbie Pink. On March 6, 2022, Valentino released their Pink PP F/W 22-23 collection, and “barbiecore” began to dominate runways from top designers to emerging brands across the world.
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Ginger Snaps Is Your Next Halloween Watch
As Halloween slowly creeps up on us, horror films have reclaimed their spot as the most seasonally appropriate (yes, even more appropriate than “Gilmore Girls”) way to ignore your assignments and second round of midterms. Out of the multitude of bone chilling, heart stopping and vomit inducing options, I find myself drawn to horror films with well written female leads. After all, there’s nothing like a mad woman, and there’s nothing like cheering her on as she inevitably wrecks the lives of every other character. For the 2022 season, my recommendation is a slightly lesser known Canadian cult classic: the fabulously heart-wrenching “Ginger Snaps.”
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Emma Chamberlain and I Have the Same Taste in Interior Decorating
This story will attest to Emma Chamberlain’s relatability by proving that we’re actually pretty similar when it comes to interior design. That is, if similar means making the most out of our drastically different budgets and deciding how to liven up our completely different spaces.
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Cut the Cameras!!!
How Paparazzi Negatively Impact Celebrities and Fans Alike
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The Evolution of the Supermodel, From Bettina to Bella
What comes to mind when you think of the word “supermodel”? Maybe you picture the Big Six, the figureheads of the supermodel craze of the ’90s. Or maybe you see the social media mavens of the current decade, juggling online followings with runway bookings. But what exactly is it that elevates a model to “super” status?
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