Today on the site: five Los Angeles writers — Lore V. Olivera, Shy Watson, Brittany Menjivar, Belinda Cai, and Maryze — talk the bedrooms that have shaped them.
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In this week's HALO* Report: Em Seely-Katz talks fashion's citation problem, cereal and baseball via Snif and Baggu, and a sale on Gay Pride Gap knockoffs by Balenciaga. api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
"If I had unlimited resources, I would design constantly. I don’t worship slowness."
Designer Mia Vesper of the cult-favorite jewelry brand Vesper Obscura sits down with us: haloscope.org/post/vesper-ob…
The way Tory Burch repositioned the brand & shifted into clothes girls actually want over the past 5 or so years needs to be studied. She saw brands encroach on her preppy-folk lane and pivoted (albeit via a hodgepodge of other labels).
There she is… 𝓜𝓲𝓼𝓼 𝓗𝓐𝓛𝓞𝓢𝓒𝓞𝓟𝓔… 🤍
After months of sniffing, cataloging, and emerging from our respective fragrance-induced fugues, we are proud to present 2025’s best and worst perfumes, from Agar Olfactory to Commes des Garçons and beyond.
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At the historic Parisian edifice on the Place de la Concorde, a new exhibit does something radical — it treats perfume as an art in itself.
Neela Cathelain on the Hôtel de la Marine's "Seven Heavenly Senses" exhibit:
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"If you put on a dangly owl necklace and distressed skinny jeans in Brooklyn, in the rosy visage of nostalgia, they practically handed you the keys to the city."
Audrey Robinovitz (@foldyrhands) on the best episodes of GIRLS, ranked: haloscope.org/post/les-demoi…
last year for @haloscopemag we looked into why this specific shirt is in so many thrift stores and found out the charity behind it produces them en masse to guilt potential donors
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looking back on some of my pure fashion writing – personally believe these are two of my best sentences, both about ludovic for @haloscopemag
write about sex and style is fun
Faux Rose's four perfumes — Mons Venus, Dauphine, Viva Maria, and Josephine in Furs — demonstrate a perfumer setting a dazzling precedent for an up-and-coming fragrance house.
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I talked to Sue Williamson of H-O-R-S-E about 1970s sportswear, eschewing logos, and the broader state of wellness-as-fashion for @haloscopemaghaloscope.org/post/meet-h-o-…