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How to pitch (and actually get a yes)

Some overdue tips & tricks on writing for publications

Dec 17, 2025 • Amy Francombe

The year we became slop

In an uncanny, over-filtered world where reality already feels AI-generated, slop is what our appetites keep defaulting to. But how do we stop eating…

Dec 15, 2025 • Amy Francombe

November 2025

From post-truth to post-meaning

+ have TikTok microtrends reinvented themselves as niche gift guides? Are we finally witnessing the end of "I could have made that" art? This and more…

Nov 23, 2025 • Amy Francombe

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun

To think and write beyond the algorithm's reflexes you need a foundation deeper than the feed.

Nov 14, 2025 • Amy Francombe

October 2025

To be desirable is currency. To desire is liability.

Between semen retention and self-tracking, the modern subject has turned erotic energy into an economic asset. But in our devotion to control, have we…

Oct 30, 2025 • Amy Francombe

Fashion loves women as consumers. But does it love them as people?

The fashion industry is once again packaging femininity into palatable trends and leaving real women behind.

Oct 12, 2025 • Amy Francombe

Showing flesh in the age of conservatism

+++ AI auteurs, peak commentator-core, fashion's class anxiety and eroticism as a life force.

Oct 10, 2025 • Amy Francombe

I shop, therefore I am (exhausted)

Everyone is selling, no one is buying.

Oct 3, 2025 • Amy Francombe

September 2025

Repairing cognitive function fall

Brain cells are the new Birkins and other ins/outs this autumn/winter

Sep 26, 2025 • Amy Francombe

Frugal chic and the morality of shopping

+ friendship as the last true luxury, the rise of the performative male and the next biggest job in AI

Sep 16, 2025 • Amy Francombe

Would you wear flip flops to a job interview? Havaianas thinks you might soon

An interview with the Brazilian brand’s CEO for Vogue Business

Sep 4, 2025 • Amy Francombe

August 2025

10 articles about taste that are actually worth reading

A field guide to the most overused word on the internet right now.

Aug 25, 2025 • Amy Francombe

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