I’m watching a woman standing in her living room in front of a table stacked with woven faux-leather fanny packs. She’s convincing me to use [Read More…]
Walking the aisles of his 120,000 sq ft warehouse, Jason Wouhra gestures towards boxes of crisps, of every conceivable brand and flavour, stacked high on [Read More…]
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There was a time when, in order to acquire a new item of clothing – say, a dress – you had to either inherit it [Read More…]
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When I was a small boy, socks were the inverse of a Platonically ideal present – the last resort of a tragically unimaginative relative, correctly [Read More…]
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