The Importance of Music to Me
The old lightbulbs in the kitchen mixed with the chipped paint on the walls cast an orange glow. The smell of tomato sauce envelopes the room and the faint sound of bubbling water tickles my tiny ears. My dad’s fingers drumming against the countertop and his soft singing interrupt the quiet. He always sings when he makes spaghetti for dinner. I tug on his pants and he tells me to be careful by the stove. I ask what he’s singing and suddenly I’m learning about the history of rock bands at seven-years-old.
Chloé Williams is Mulling it Over
Every couple aisles, Williams picks up a book and tells me something about it. She’s reading The Iliad, but wishes she waited for a different author’s translation. She tells me she’d freak out if someone said their favorite book is Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey. She recommends John Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday, which I plan on buying before we leave. She picks up a copy of Jenny Slate’s Little Weirds and says, “My book is gonna be kind of like this.”
Sounds of Sunday
Hidden behind black gates and the food trucks lining Fifth Avenue, familiar faces and new ones passing through frequent the spot. It’s a Sunday. If I listen closely from the busy street, I can already hear the music. A jazz band is playing.
5 Takeaways from Maxine Bédat’s Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment
Maxine Bédat’s Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment follows a single pair of jeans as it makes its way from farm to consumer to landfill, with multiple stops and airplanes in between.
How Lily Fulop’s Mindful Mending Sparks Conversations and Change
Twenty-four year old visual designer and author Lily Fulop began the Instagram account Mindful Mending as part of a school project in 2018. The assignment called for students to design for social good. Having grown up crocheting, interning with a local fashion designer in Pittsburgh using fabric scraps and an interest in sustainability, mending clothes combined her interests and skills.
Interview with Fashion Designer Chelsea Grays
Menswear designer Chelsea Grays had just returned to the states when we caught up on Zoom. After a year spent in Paris doing an extended study at École de la Chambre Syndicale, her latest collection was one of our favorites at fashion week. I spoke with Grays about her design process, inspirations and the new digital world of fashion.
White Supremacy Isn’t New, It Just Moved Online, Panelists Say
The consumption of media in the age of doom scrolling, cancel culture and life through a screen spiked during the past year. As of January 2021, there are 319 million new internet users, according to a We Are Social global report. Last week, academics gathered to discuss how to combat the rise of extremist groups online.
Gap Year Helps Hunter Students Find New Direction
Ariel Gold already packed her dorm room and was on her way back to New York when two of her University of Colorado Boulder professors reached out to her. She was unsure how to tell them she wouldn’t be in class for the foreseeable future and that she was tired of being a political science major. Gold made the decision to go home, but she didn’t realize that decision marked the end of her time in Colorado and the beginning of a gap year.
Hunter Students Launch Side Hustles Amid Pandemic
Chloé Williams was two months into her final year of college and seven months into a pandemic when she realized any previously made career plans were not going to happen. After graduation, she hoped to work at Man Repeller, an online publication. In the last year, Williams watched it rebrand to Repeller then close completely. Between the rebrands and closures, she began to rethink everything.
What the F*ck is Sea Moss? Our new favorite podcast
Twenty-two year-olds Kate Glavan and Emma Roepke met through Instagram in 2018. With a promise of free shampoo, they attended an influencer event together and quickly realized they were a lot alike. They were both introverts. They were both recovering from eating disorders. They both found the pressures of having a glimmering NYC social life annoying.