They Believe He Confessed to Rapes in His Rap Lyrics
The result of a six-month investigation into a notorious predator in the NYC nightlife and arts scenes.
Recent Pieces and Favorites
Things I just wrote, things I'm proud of writing
Reddit's Home for Menswear Grows Up—by Outgrowing Its Name
The Reddit community r/malefashion expands its definition of both "male" and "fashion," with heartwarming results
Meet the YouTube Tailoring Historian Behind Some of Harlem’s Greatest Fits
After finding him on YouTube, I talked shop with the tailor for Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, the James Brown Band, and the minds behind the March on Washington
A Glitch in China's Great Firewall Is Sending People to a Polish Travel Blog
While living in Beijing, I reported on how an attempt to monitor the internet traffic of foreigners like myself somehow sent millions of pageviews to a Polish couple's holiday photos
Additional Works
Sonos: Era Launch
In 2022 I began working with Sonos as the Global Narrative Lead for the account. I lead messaging development for our IAT, developing language and positioning that would then be deployed throughout the world by all of Sonos's global PR teams. Our first major effort was of the Era product family of speakers, by some measures the most successful in the history of the company. Working directly with executives from throughout the company (including CEO Patrick Spence), we delivered an incredible launch tent-poled by press events on both coasts.
This Halloween's Scariest Horror Movie Is a YouTube Series By a Wisconsin 18 Year-Old
Songbird, the Michael Bay-produced dud that imagined a future Los Angeles overrun by COVID mutations, was a compelling example of how not to handle the pandemic on screen. How do you do it right?
Alex Kister, an 18 year-old student from Hubertus, Wisconsin (45 minutes outside Milwaukee), might have the answer with The Mandela Catalogue, a series of short videos he began creating during summer college. They’ve since exploded in popularity — his channel is approaching 3 million views. A few milli
Alex Kister, an 18 year-old student from Hubertus, Wisconsin (45 minutes outside Milwaukee), might have the answer with The Mandela Catalogue, a series of short videos he began creating during summer college. They’ve since exploded in popularity — his channel is approaching 3 million views. A few milli
We Need To Talk About Mikey
May 18th, 2021: I DMed my friend a post from the Instagram account @mikeymiles160. The post has five video clips of the account’s owner, Mikey, hitting the gym. Mikey starts with some leg lifts, then incline bench press, then barbell triceps extension. Standard exercises, questionable form.
In the last clip, Mikey approaches a punching bag that’s hanging from some monkey bars — normal in space-conscious gyms in his native New
In the last clip, Mikey approaches a punching bag that’s hanging from some monkey bars — normal in space-conscious gyms in his native New
Big Game For Someone With Such A Small Truck: Media Conglomerates Vs. Everybody
The reading experience of the piece is augmented by THIS PLAYLIST. Begin track one now, Advance to the next track when prompted. No Peeking.
Most corporate mottos land somewhere between laughable and unsettling.
Laughable: Facebook’s original motto, “Move Fast and Break Things,” was better expressed by Fred Durst in 2000 (who you should be hearing right now).
Unsettling: If a friend tells you that he does things “The Chevron Way,” you should call the police.
Even a non-specific platitude lik
Most corporate mottos land somewhere between laughable and unsettling.
Laughable: Facebook’s original motto, “Move Fast and Break Things,” was better expressed by Fred Durst in 2000 (who you should be hearing right now).
Unsettling: If a friend tells you that he does things “The Chevron Way,” you should call the police.
Even a non-specific platitude lik
Reddit's Home for Menswear Grows Up—by Outgrowing Its Name
The Reddit community r/malefashion expands its definition of both "male" and "fashion," with heartwarming results
Why Fashion's Recent Acquisitions Are a Positive
It’s getting harder and harder to walk down the runway without being propped up from behind.
2018 saw three of fashion’s great independent stalwarts all accept buyout offers from fashion conglomerates. The most recent of these, announced last week, was that Italian tailoring monolith Zegna had bought 85 percent of American suiting icon Thom Browne for half a billion dollars. Belgian master of tasteful maximalism Dries Van Noten sold the majority of his label to Spanish fragrance giant Puig, an
2018 saw three of fashion’s great independent stalwarts all accept buyout offers from fashion conglomerates. The most recent of these, announced last week, was that Italian tailoring monolith Zegna had bought 85 percent of American suiting icon Thom Browne for half a billion dollars. Belgian master of tasteful maximalism Dries Van Noten sold the majority of his label to Spanish fragrance giant Puig, an
Crimes Against Design
As a massive capitalist tool for driving expenditure, and one that spends billions in advertising targeting the people with the least discretionary spending, why shouldn’t socialists pay attention to fashion?
A Tale of Two T(h)oms
Last month, British GQ made an alarmingly astute observation: we’re in the midst of a fashion era that more than ever resembles professional sports. Blame the new spectacle on the furious trading of creative directors like they’re top tier premier league players. For fans, Virgil Abloh’s appointment to LV creates the same sort of buzz as that of Lukaku’s trade to Manchester United—or when Randy Moss was traded to the Patriots, if you’re into the other football. But it’s not just the creative dir
Slimane, Suits and the Staying Power of Sneakers
The biggest takeaway from Hedi Slimane’s debut at Celine last week was, predictably, “Bring back Phoebe Philo.” In the same way MF Doom or Rakim is your “favorite rapper’s favorite rapper,” Philo was certainly a designer’s designer. To see her go was one thing; to see her displaced by the Slimane—whose appeal mostly lies in his ability to double the sales of a given house with hyper skinny jeans and reworked rock n’ roll aesthetics—was fashion nerd blasphemy. As the Financial Times pointed out,
Eternally Influential The Life and Legacy of Hubert de Givenchy
Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy, born 1927 in Beauvais, passed away on March 10, 2018. He leaves behind a legacy as a designer whose defining moments are not only integral to fashion, but are elements of world history. Audrey Hepburn changed the representation of women in pop culture in Breakfast at Tiffany’s—while wearing Givenchy. Jacqueline Kennedy acc