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David Lê

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DIGEST 124: Dad Bod SS/27

At Auction July 1-6, 2026

I miss working on Maiden Name menswear. That all kind of came about because dudes were wearing the pants anyway, SSENSE saw on IG, and they asked if we would sell them menswear. At the time, we really didn’t desig...

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DIGEST 123: You Don't Need That

At Auction June 24-30, 2026

I was struck by a comment that Felix Burrichter (PIN-UP EIC) made on Adam Charlap-Hyman and Laura Kugel’s Handle with Care podcast; he said he was not particularly interested in possessing things. I liked that—t...

14 days ago
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DIGEST 122: T-Shirt in the Pool Weather

At Auction June 17-23, 2026

I saw a photo yesterday of Lindsey Graham between two shirtless UFC hunks (sadly it’s fake) and it made me sad not to be in Fire Island. It’s the first summer in some time I don’t have a trip to the Pines on the...

21 days ago
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DIGEST 121: Like Art

I’ve been reading Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts and I just finished her essay on Ingrid Sischy, written in 1986 while Sischy was EIC of Artforum (she’d been appointed at 27 and, as she confesses to Malcolm, had never actually read...

a month ago
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DIGEST 120: The House that Diane Keaton Built

At Auction June 3-6, 2026

A disconcerting number of you emailed me about the Diane Keaton estate auctions at Bonhams this week. Duncan, my editor at Dwell, thought it could be a good story, but in looking through the catalog I was mostly s...

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