Big brands have never been less cool.
Why fast fashion brands can't stop working with small designers.
Good morning everyone. I’m in LA and I slept until 11:30am today. Sophia Amoruso and I hosted a poker game last night and it was sick — we said it would be off-the-record so I can’t tell you everyone who was there or what I heard but I will be hosting more games in New York soon. Sophia writes a newsletter about business news and finance with 132K subscribers — it promises that reading will make you “sound more interesting to your friends.”
Today’s letter includes a quote from Rachel Tashjian on all these Fast Fashion x Slow Fashion collabs (J. Crew x Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Zara x SEA), a popular restaurant owner texted me their real thoughts on the dining shed debate, and a fast food CEO bought a penthouse across from The Met.
NEWS:
In the midst of absolute political turmoil, paid Feed Me readers have the opportunity to ask Olivia Nuzzi (the Washington correspondent for New York Magazine who is best known for drinking Diet Coke with Donald Trump, drinking Bloody Marys with Rudy Giuliani, and her never-brassy platinum blonde hair) anything in the Feed Me chat. I’ll publish her answers later this week. Current questions include inquiries about Andrew Cuomo’s nipple ring, her thoughts on Gretchen Whitmer, and if young people should still get into the publishing industry.
Last week I wrote about your favorite podcasts migrating over to Substack, but this week my favorite podcast announced they will be making the move over to this platform to publish. Eyewitness Beauty, hosted by Annie Kreighbaum (formerly Glossier, Soft Services) and Nick Axelrod-Welk (formerly Glossier, Nécessaire) said this week due to subscriptions and monetization reasons, they’ll now be publishing audio on Substack.
already has quite a following here, so I’m excited to see how they use the different features like Chat and the ability to make referral dollars for products mentioned.Eater is doubling down on affiliate cash. And hiring a commerce writer! The Vox team is probably seeing how much cash Strategist is bringing in over at New York Magazine (shoutout friend of the letter Emma Wartzman for writing for Strat’s kitchen section), and wants to follow suit – to be clear, Alexis Swerdloff—then the editor of The Strategist, now New York’s deputy editor—once said, “A good article can crack thirteen thousand dollars.” I’m kind of surprised that there is no kitchen-focused shopping letter on Substack that has really capitalized on how much time people spend in the kitchen. TikTok Shop has been such a successful place for newer, smaller kitchen and dining brands (weird gadgets, pantry ingredients, dupes for more expensive appliances) and I’m guessing more writers will look at the success of fashion-focused shopping newsletters follow suit in their dedicated departments.