✉️ How We’re Functioning: Your Cultural Survival Guide for the Week
This week’s mix of culture, cravings and coping mechanisms - hint it's all about nostalgia
📰 Hot Take
Genz said millennials can’t say lol anymore but sometimes lol is all I have. Between GIRLS + Lena Dunham discourse, Y2K trends, and the embrace your cringe era, millennials are suddenly trending again. I wonder who will bring back millennial pink…
Anna Gaddis: Video
🍟 Currently Craving
I love a trendy restaurant, but lately I’ve been going to JG Melon for a burger and martini, and it feels like the 2000 teens again. My clothes are vintage, and apparently so are my cravings. Maybe the reason nostalgia restaurants hit is because they remind us of a time before everything was content. When going out for a burger wasn’t about documenting it, just about being there. Are we craving fries, or are we craving presence?
🎧 Walk + Listen
If you, like me, confuse anxiety for attraction, you’ll love this. Esther Perel on AI intimacy and why the apps monetize our confusion.
Episode here
💬 Screenshot Therapy
“Failure isn’t what breaks you. Hiding from it is.” My essay on turning 39 and owning failure.
A note to myself on the eve of my 39th birthday
👕 Fit of the Week
Vintage Grace came out with a J’adore Vintage an ode to Jadore Dior. A Y2K top seller was the word tee.. Britney owned this and now we all can. It’s a trend I love to see coming back. Plus the VG shirt is $65 compared to sourcing a vintage Dior for $500.
J’adore Vintage Baby Tee: Shop here
🧴In my bag
MPH Beauty Hailey Biebers makeup artist just launched her makeup line and I got a front row seat to the influencer gifting (only because my friend works there). The hero is a technique called underpainting that somehow even I, with 0 makeup skills, could pull off. Makeup is oversaturated but authenticity always wins, even in beauty.
👤 Human
The kid with the goat named teddy bear. It’s the sweetest thing I’ve seen all year. The exact counter-image to the internet…and the version of myself I want to be.
NBC News: Video
📲 Going Viral
Frozen Yogurt should have never left the building. Everyone is posting Mimi’s a new Australian frozen yogurt shop in soho like it’s the Backstreet Boys reunion in Vegas. Nostalgia cycles are hitting food now, not just fashion. Froyo is back because we’re all craving safety and comfort. Turns out froyo maybe should not have ended and neither should the Backstreet Boys.
🧠 Functioning Hack
This week I wrote down all my limiting beliefs, and I’d recommend trying it. It felt deranged, honestly half of them were just me comparing myself to people online. Once they were on paper, I realized how much of my inner world wasn’t even mine. It was an algorithm whispering in my ear. When you write them out, you can finally separate yourself from them. You can look in the mirror and see that those voices aren’t the truth, they’re just noise. News Flash: I guess I still got some healing to do.
I love this one! Thanks for the shoutout. You look so good in your baby tee!!!