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LONG LIVE BAD TASTE!
Dedicated to all the beautiful outsiders: you are not a misfit toy. You are haute couture, one of a kind.
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The Unknown and I
Effort requires no talent, only the courage to be seen.
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Cyberpunk: The Epilogue
The private archive of borrowed time.
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The Boyish Coquette
filed under: tomboy ease + feminine allure
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Mapping the Psychology of Style
The Nine Archetypes of Appearance and Identity
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The Gift of Being Misunderstood
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The Elegance Paradox
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Punk: The Epilogue
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Cyberpunk: The Epilogue
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Her Body of Work
Anaïs Nin and the pathos of eroticizing abandonment
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Make it Ugly
Deconstruction, distortion, and Avant-Garde’s refusal to conform
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Punk: The Epilogue
The private archive of anarchy.
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Personal Style & the Feedback Loop of Identity
How appearance becomes behavior, and behavior becomes self
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In Defense of Envy
The self-fulfilling prophecy of the unattainable life
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Starved for Self
The hunger to be adored, served with a side of shame.
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The Shape of Longing: The Romantic Era
The age of feeling, silhouette, and the sublime!
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The art of personal style, self-reclamation, and aesthetic philosophy, served up with a subversive twist. Published weekly by Alexandra Diana.
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