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'Imperfect You' Nike Japan

When we dress to be photographed, we increasingly dress to be distributed as an image, and thus transformed into a kind of ad.

Dirt • Dirt | Substack

I am being paid to be disposable, to sell clothes that are disposable, to sell something I have no right to sell, to be someone I dislike, to be uncomfortable, until I can no longer see my whole self because I also see what they see and give it willingly.

Cameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir

Scott Krisiloff’s Blog

Scott Krisiloff scottkrisiloff.me

In fact, I’d argue an emerging class of creators and consumer brands is actually employing curation as a business strategy. Gohar World, Ganni and Soeur have been sharing city travel guides, Ghia has been sharing Spotify playlists, and tastemakers like Olympia Gayot and Alex Eagle are joining entirely new social platforms purpose-built for discover... See more

Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms

The problem is that within many conventional retail organisations, the term “content” is conflated with advertising. To wit, I’ve even seen entire brand YouTube channels that contain nothing more than a company’s TV ads. And while it is true that fashion brands like Chanel and Burberry, for example, long ago began to think more like media companies

Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?

vox.com

Stand for something that’s all your own. Help us find unexpected things and think unexpected thoughts. Don’t create for the algorithm (as tempting as it is to try and give it what it seems to want, to help your brand gain visibility). Don’t drift to the middle in search of eyeballs. Think bigger, more long-term, more societal-level, even. Do things... See more

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Essays on health technologies and Silicon Valley’s obsession with engineering bodies and minds, from the critic formerly known as “ed-tech’s Cassandra”