Brain Matter
Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, BalenciagaFront-row access. Backstage chaos. Slow-burn cultural critiques and brutally honest hot takes. Penned by stylist and former Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. This is your brain on fashion.
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The Met Gala is a Status Economy
All subscription proceeds from this post will go towards cancer treatment costs for 72 year-old “Ma Mary” a full time worker at Amazon’s RDU1 warehouse and the co-founder of C.A.U.S.E., the union movement for better pay and working conditio...
People are smoking in fashion magazines again.
I started smoking when I was seventeen because I thought it looked cool. Unfortunately, it still—indisputably—does.
Smoking was sexy, and French, when I picked up my first pack on a summer program in 2007. I wanted to smoke Parliament Ligh...
I’m Writing a Book. God Help Us All.
Half my table of contents is on the cutting room floor. Tell me what to finish.
It occurs to me that I have not dedicated enough time here to propagating my lore…
Fashion Photography is Finally Fucking Fun Again
Left: Elle Fanning for Who What Wear by Szilveszter Makó; Right: Ayo Edebiri by Jaša Muller for Paper Magazine
Some of my favorite pictures of Bella Hadid were taken by Elizaveta Porodina and styled by me for Vogue Magazine. The story was...
In Defense of the Slogan Tee
I have a t-shirt addiction. I powered through the late aughts wherein it was considered profoundly uncool to wear a graphic tee; I scoured resale sites for band tees I knew I’d have to defend with a dissertation-level of knowledge should I...
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Gabriella Karefa-Johnson is a New York-based stylist, fashion editor, and visual storyteller redefining who gets seen and how.
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