My five favorite episodes of HBO's Girls, reviewed.

Our collective reverence of Margiela’s tabi both erases the style’s Japanese origins and contravenes the original ethos of a maison that treated the commodity as an object of suspicion.

Dossier’s dupes have disrupted NYC’s niche fragrance district.

We are obsessed with our own reflections — and it’s making us lame.

Notes on bottling and selling the West.

It’s the story of our clothes that matters — not their aesthetics.

And the olfactory ethics of nostalgia.

Wait… why do I dress like a homesteader?