Front-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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Everyone Hates Me! (Probably Not.)
In addition to celebrating the classification of every future pregnancy of mine as geriatric, aka turning 35, there has been so much to celebrate this week!
Perhaps chief among them, the incredible response to the first episode of Front Ro...
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The brain is a scary place…
WHEW, CHILE…
That might as well be the standing first line of every single post-fashion-week letter I write from now until eternity, or I retire to a small farm, whichever comes first…
At the close of the Spri...
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Introducing “Front Row, Back Table”, a new Brain Matter series for the girls who have THOUGHTS.
*Disclaimer you have to read 288 words before you get to the audiovisual bliss that is episode one of FRONT ROW, BACK TABLE!!!
SORRY, I’M TOO TIRED TO TALK ABOUT THE ROBOTS
At some point we’re going to have to talk about the robots but if I can be frank with you… I just don’t have the strength. We are on DAY THREE OF MILAN. A critical juncture where fatigue begins to hit, and one becomes increasingly susceptib...
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Gabriella Karefa-Johnson is a New York-based stylist, fashion editor, and visual storyteller redefining who gets seen and how.
Executive Digital Director, Harper’s Bazaar. Host of The Good Buy and Sounds & Style podcast. And forever a funky homosapien.
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