Reader: October 15, 2015

– Every season Tomas Maier of Bottega Veneta collaborated with fine art photographers to shoot seasonal campaigns including Robert Longo and Collier Schorr. They’re chronicled in this book, what a great Christmas present it would make, for me. Also, I want this art + fashion book.- The emotional labor and stressful 80 hour work weeks of fashion bloggers: “Bloggers’ emotional labor takes a different form—glamorous living is documented frame by frame—but remains, like Hochschild’s service workers, concealed. Bloggers look like they have fulfilling careers, financial success, flexible schedules, and fun lives. But these creative mavens are ostensibly also regular women. As such their digital images of perfection make it seem accessible to everyone: just a lot of passion and a few social media accounts away.”

– If only I were so lucky. Lucky for lucky charms.

– 25 Frenchies.

– 50 best tech PR people you should know.

– Cuba. Internet. America. China.

– Danny Meyer eliminates tipping from all his restaurants. Outrage ensues.

Reader: October 5, 2015

– Collage and fashion photography of Jean-François Lepage– Slaughterhouse 90210 is an amazing tumblr that mixes screenshots with lit quotes.

– Smart menstrual cup tracks your period. Gross.

 

Reader: October 3, 2015

– Owner of $70 mil company Drybar on disrupting the beauty industry. “A large part of that formula centers around catering to her consumers, and staying true to the brand’s mission: beautifying the hair. In other words, Webb will never expand into other categories.”- On creating a billion dollar fashion brand using Jessica Simpson. “It’s a moderate brand and most of America is a moderate consumer. The key here is moderate pricing in moderate stores, offering good fashion on a consistent basis. It sells to the middle-class consumer in Middle America that is looking to the department store to tell them which brands are fashionable.”

– The eyebrow dictionary.

– Class action lawsuit against LinkedIn. So that email I got this morning is real.

– Sweden adopting the 6 hours workday. I was actually thinking about just the other day, that if I’m not a freelancer, I would be far more productive working at a company for 6 hours, no breaks, no chit chat, just productivity. That’s how it should be.

–Millenials vs. Gen Z

– Nanette Lepore and Robert Savage turn their NYC townhouse into an art gallery open to public through rsvp.

– Pharell visits Murakami’s studio. He’s awkward.