Do you not have kids / interact with any children or teens at all? I mean listen, I found out who Ninja was this year but seeing as 98% of the teen/kid population has been playing Fortnite and popularizing its dances as memes and shit, I feel like most average adult people could tell you that Fortnite is a video game…

I think this is a matter of age. I came of age in the 90s/2000s - at that time society as a whole was not as up to date on all the spectrums of gender expression so to me, identifying as bisexual meant for me that I was into everyone (men, women, feminine men, masculine women), and in today’s world a lot of those…

Opposite viewpoint: PEN15 was so good, but also so cringingly real as a former awkward middle school girl that I found it still hit too close to home that I had real trouble getting through it, especially the Maya centric points. PEN15 is probably the objectively better written show but I think that this movie’s going…

It’s money - but honestly it’s also public awareness. Some of the classic movies are ANCIENT by today’s children standards. They’re honestly still pretty old, even by adult time lines. I work in a childcentric product development and basically 100% of kids recognize a disney princess if you show them a picture…

Don’t get the dinosaur ones!  Unless you’re a savage that likes hard box tacos - I got them as a gift and was so excited to be a giant child and eat my standard size soft tacos from a dinosaur but they just are not deep enough or tall enough to hold a normal soft taco.  If you like hard, slightly smaller taco shells…

Don’t get me wrong - I would not buy stuff for a tween from VS. I would go to Aerie or something but if they want to make money (which seems to be the main issue) and one of the things that is not working is targeting older women who are working, maybe the idea is to go younger and move their demo from (16-30) down to…

They don’t need to explicitly market to teens but their LOVE diffusion label is super aspirational to the tweens. If the cute girls in middle school are wearing Aerie, then the “cool” ones are wearing those LOVE trackpants. It’s kind of how marketing works - you usually pick up some a group slightly less aspirational…

I don’t think that they realize how being the “first love” is nice, but ultimately dooms them to being a starter brand aimed at teenagers. VS is probably a lot of people’s first loves- their first glimpses as a kid of what being a sexy, grown woman might look like, their first sneaky thong bought with pocket money and…

Yo can anyone confirm that Connor J is part asian?  He’s def not my pick for winning but it’s nice to know that ABC is atleast committing to one asian person per season that gets cut by the bachelor/bachelorette in the first two episodes.  

I also think part of when a vacay is shit it is because you a) fought with your partner, b) fought with your family or c) had a sad romantic encounter and I personally want to say none of that shit to my coworkers. I think it’s messy and not that respectful to air out your private relationship woes at work so yeah, I…

The closing of Rookie felt differently to me - I roughly came of age with Tavi-ish and I was a avid Rookie reader. It was the early days of the internet and I was still reading personal blogs like crazy and making internet friends by leaving blog comments, live-journaling, fan-fiction commenting, going on multiplayer…

HOW DO you not know?  Real questions no snark, are you a) not interested in meaningless fluff celebrity culture or are you b) too young for the Kardashians to be as prominent in your life as mine (I was born in the early 90s) and if so...who are your Kardashians?  Are they youtubers?  I’m so freaking curious.  

Obviously it is difficult to become a top level designer and become a name by yourself if you have no money and never went to school just like if you’re a small town kid dreaming of Hollywood and you’re still living in Kansas. HOWEVER, there are immense institutions set up with a lot of prestige (aka Parsons, FIT,…

You sound incredible and you sound like you would be a great technical designer! I think the funny/weird part of the show is just like in art school, the fashion designer does it all (sketching / developing print / draping / fitting / sewing /styling) when in real life corporate fashion (where a lot of designer have…

To be honest - I would argue that to be successful in this country you need to be able to design precisely just for one size if you measure “success” in fashion traditionally. For e.g, if your goal is to work in a brand that shows at fashion week I would guess in average that 95% of the brands do not offer plus size…

I think part of it is in fashion school you design on provided mannequins, and then models, most of which are sample size. Unless you specifically state “I AM GOING TO BE A PLUS SIZE DESIGNER”, accommodations are not made to find models / bust forms that fit your needs and even then you’ll have to lobby. Then - post…

...maybe kids are going to starbucks less? The Frapp was my beverage of choice as a teen because “real” coffee was too bitter for me and a Frapp allowed me to consume a “coffee” product with the cool starbucks logo and had social media been as big as it was now, it looks pretty on camera.  I have never seen a adult…

Nope - BUT in the defense of the Countess...she is the kind of white woman who naturally tans a little (maybe due to those potentially real NA genes) and is someone who is 99% of the time, bronzed and with a spray tan ready to go because that’s what “women of leisure” look like.

Actually on a quick scroll of her instagram while she usually does look very “unaturally tan” this does look a shade deeper...which probably does mean she thought she needed to darken her skin to dress in tribute to a famous black woman.

She was also cast in the prequel SATC teen com - the Carrie Diaries which was pretty fun while it lasted.