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In this edition of Study Break, we discuss the questionable decisions behind the scenes of the Possession remake, the historical accuracy cottage industry reactivated by the release of The Odyssey, the latest in infidelity surveillance via Jay Guapo, and new releases from Adela, Tyla, and KATSEYE. We also highlight a recent cornucopia of Euroweird excellence from the Depardieu family’s blissful film festival outing to the fabulous brainrot opera debut of Beata Mona-Lisa, Greta Thunberg’s perplexingly buxom sister— plus we react to fashion announcements including Marine Serre’s bankruptcy and the upcoming John Galliano–themed Met Gala.Links:
Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner on the set of the Possession remake in New Jersey
Julie Depardieu and Philippe Katerine pose with their 2 sons Billy and Alfred at the Monte Carlo Television Festival (Alexi’s viral QRT)
Billy Blanchard at Jean-Paul Gaultier F/W 2026 Couture via Lyas
“EXCLUSIVE: Marine Serre Seeks Investor Amid Financial Restructuring” in WWD
The Met Announces the Spring 2027 Costume Institute Exhibition, John Galliano: Horizons
“John Galliano Returns to Fashion Via a Creative Partnership with Zara” in Vogue
“An Uncomplicated Man” (review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey) by Emily Wilson in The London Review of Books
Millie Bobby Brown responds to bad wig accusations on BBC Radio 1
@chthonicthorn on TikTok (Hellenistic practicioner?)
“Greta Thunberg’s Sister Beata Mona-Lisa Does the Splits” by Billy Parker in Interview
Beata Mona-Lisa on Instagram
Pianist Yuja Wang
Nymphet Alumni Ep. 114: Grisch
“The Folk Singer Linda Perhacs Is Found and Is Safe, Authorities Confirm” in The New York Times
Tyla - “THAT GIRL” (Official Music Video)
Nymphet Alumni Ep. 147: Cherry Emoji Dark Feminine
Tyla in custom Phoebe Pendergast polka dot hair clip at Disney with Kai Cenat
“Valley of the Marc Jacobs Dolls” by Carwyn McIntyre in ToBe
“The Surreal, Sublime Worlds of Szilveszter Makó” by Lauren Jackson in The New York Times
Adam Green’s Aladdin - Full Movie (Official) on YouTube
KATSEYE (캣츠아이) - “Animal” (Official Music Video)
KATSEYE EP 3 ‘WILD’ (Wild heart ver.) teaser images on Instagram
ADÉLA - “Ain’t In LA” (Official Music Video)
Gabbriette in custom Matières Fécales bridal
Andrea Mauri @babedrea33 on Instagram
“Married elite NYC lawyer, 45, is caught red-handed with underling, 29, in passionate Central Park rendezvous” in The Daily Mail
“How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid low” in The Financial Times



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In this episode, the ladies welcome America’s favorite game show host Ben Mora for a survey of the interior design landscape among Millennials and Gen Z. They discuss how bedroom stratigraphy reveals the history of interior design fads, the never-ending influence of the long ‘90s, the tyranny of mid-century modern, blackout curtain pleasure caves, Pinterest boards, the housing crisis, various gay predispositions, and more!
Interior Motives
Seeking Derangements
Ben’s profile in New York magazine!!
Printed out Pinterest Moodboard TikToks
$4,300 in missing rugs, online shame, 7 hours in NYPD custody: A stooping story
Samantha Wynn Greenstone (girl who married a gay guy and had a baby)
BBL Arab Gays
Tasteslop by Nemesis



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In this edition of Study Break, we go deep on Sombr’s ED summer track “My Body Isn’t Ready,” make the case for Obsession star Inde Navarette as this generation’s Dead Wife Montage Stacy, and extol Erling Haaland’s universal Homo Erectus charm. We also assess Olivia Rodrigo’s and Gracie Abrams’ claims to girl-loserdom and the influence of children’s literature on men’s fashion week.
Links:
sombr - My Body Isn’t Ready (official video)
James Blunt - You’re Beautiful (official video)
James Blunt’s 13 most savage tweets
Olivia Rodrigo - honeybee
Olivia Rodrigo addresses the “baby boy, honeybee” allegations
Olivia Rodrigo - the cure (official video)
Gracie Abrams - Look at My Life (official video)
Gracie Abrams - Daughter From Hell album art
Grace Abrams - The Secret of Us album art
Dior Men’s Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Celine Men’s Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Prada Men’s Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Worldpeace DMT - Love Yourself (official video)


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In this solo minisode, Sam enters the wilderness of mirrors to unpack Michael Jackson: child star, King of Pop, fairy-tale monster, walking logo, and one of the strangest cultural phenomena of the 20th century. Using Margo Jefferson, Wendy Lesser, Mark Fisher, Foucault, Bakhtin, Peter Pan, The Little Prince, Shirley Temple, Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Fosse, P.T. Barnum, Neverland Ranch, pork pie hats, patent leather shoes, and white spats, Sam pursues Michael as a figure of inversion: the child who was an adult, the adult who became a child, the Black man who became white, the man who became a woman, the innocent who became the guilty. Along the way, she considers the glamour and horror of child stardom, the maternal diva archive, the carnivalesque body, the freakshow of Wacko Jacko, and why Michael’s legacy remains endlessly unresolved.
Stargirl’s 100th episode, we love you Emma
On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson
On Michael Jackson, with Shannon Taggart by Weird Studies
The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, edited by Mark Fisher
His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art by Wendy Lesser
Moonwalk: A Memoir by Michael Jackson
The Autobiography of PT Barnum by PT Barnum
Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
r/LeavingNeverlandHBO
My Family, The Jacksons by Katherine Jackson
Michael Jackson’s Interview in Gold Girl Magazine, 2002
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Original)
Who’s Loving You - The Jackson 5 on The Ed Sullivan Show
Interview with Suzanne de Passe, Motown Costume Designer
Human Nature, Wembley ‘88 - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Sylvester Stallone on Michael Jackson
Bob Fosse, The Little Prince, and Michael Jackson
The Little Prince
MJ Productions’s Letter to The Little Prince
Marianne Williamson officiates Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding to Larry Fortensky
Elizabeth Taylor surprises Michael Jackson with an elephant
Abnormals, Freaks, and Michael Jackson: Foucault, Baldwin the Truth of the Grotesque by Brad Elliott Stone
Nymphet Alumni’s Ep. 157: American Freakshow


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In this episode, we kick off the summer by denominating a colorful attitude toward dress manifesting bicoastally. Epitomized by brands like Emily Dawn Long, Brooke Callahan, and Cleo Camp, Crayola Casual is the funky counterpart to freaky minimalism— accessory agnostic, anti-synthetic, built around hot saturated colors and the art of the easy-on easy-off. We review this aesthetic’s historical antecedents, from fluid disco formalwear of the 70s (Halston, Stephen Burrows) to globalist chic sportswear of the 80s (Esprit, United Colors of Benetton). We also discuss Downtown New York’s Maryam Nassir Zadeh as the missing link, classics of rainbow urbanism including Sesame Street and the Vignelli Subway Map, our predictions for an aerobics renaissance, and the creative exuberance of a season of parades, pop-ups, and pennants.
Links:
Image board
Cleo Camp
Brooke Callahan
Emily Dawn Long
Rummage Stretch
“Vintage Sportswear Will Crush Your Alo Yoga Sets” by Liana Satenstein for Neverworns
Allegra Samsen on Instagram
Ventriloquist Sophie Becker for Paloma Wool
“The Accidental Trendsetter” by Emilia Petrarca in The New York Times (Emily Dawn Long profile)
“The Sisterhood of the Unraveling Pants” by Sarah Shapiro in Puck (on the rise of the easy pant)
“The Sexy Sincerity of Maryam Nassir Zadeh” by Rachel Tashjian in Harper’s Bazaar
“How Does Maryam Nassir Zadeh Stay in Business?” by Madeline Leung Coleman in The Cut
“1970–1979” from FIT’s Fashion History Timeline
“A 1970s Fashion History Lesson: Disco, Designer Denim, and the Liberated Woman” by Lilah Ramzi in Vogue
“The Halstonettes” by The Museum at FIT from the 2015 exhibit Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s
“Stephen Burrows, the CFDA’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Winner, in the Words of 7 of His Closest Collaborators” by Laird Borrelli-Persson in Vogue
“The Radical History of Sesame Street” by Figgy Guyver in Frieze
“The Quintessential Urban Design of Sesame Street” by Anna Kodé in The New York Times
“Towards a Better Way: The “Vignelli” Map at 50” (Digital Exhibit) – New York Transit Museum
Supergraphic Ultramodern – Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
“The rise and fall of Esprit, San Francisco’s coolest clothing brand” by Joshua Bote in SFGATE
“opening ceremony’s founders on how esprit changed fashion (and the world)” – i-D
“Esprit’s Brand Books” by Jill Singer in Sight Unseen (on Esprit: The Comprehensive Design Principle from 1989)
“From Plain Jane to Esprit: The Making of a California Icon” by Bertrand Pellegrin
“Benetton: Celebrating a Colorful History” by Amanda Kaiser in WWD
“History” – Gap, Inc.
“Khaki Swing” – 1998 Gap Commercial on YouTube
Something Wild (1986) dir. Jonathan Demme – Official Trailer
Excerpt from Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
“Everything You Need to Know About the Battle of Versailles on the 50th Anniversary of the Event” by Laird Borrelli-Persson in Vogue
“Fashion” - The 1973 World Book Year Book
“Yanks Pull Off Paris Fashion Heist” by Eugenia Sheppard in The Los Angeles Times
Big Bad Wolf workout class on TikTok
Aerobics by Kenneth H. Cooper
エアロピクルス｜Aeropickles on YouTube
“1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening” on YouTube
Audrey Hobert live performances: trenchcoat reveal, mini trampoline
Audrey Hobert x Fishwife Tinned Fish Bundle
“Forget Euro Summer. Brands Are Having a Wet, Hot American Summer” by Madeleine Schulz in Vogue (pop-up economy write-up)



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