With entry-level employment conditions at a critical point of complexity, with the most university-educated competition in history, an AI shock to the workforce, and substantial cost-of-living crises in major cities across the globe, it feels almost impossible as a young person entering the workforce to let yourself breathe.

On September 8, 2024, the NFL announced that Kendrick Lamar would be the performer for their Super Bowl halftime show. The Super Bowl halftime show is the number one most-watched TV program in the U.S., ranking among the most-watched in the world.

At the turn of the century, personal symbols of luxury and social status were a capitalist’s fantasy. A Cartier love bracelet (or a stack of 7), a brand-new Rolex, a Range Rover or G-Wagon, a good injector, even a luxury logo monogrammed tracksuit would do the trick.

Brain rot – the Oxford Word of the Year, 2024. Skibidi, galaxy brain, the list unfortunately goes on. The concern about the shortening of attention spans in young children started years ago, but the concern about that of adults in recent years and months has become increasingly popular.

Fashion has always been a steadfast pillar in society, a form of expression that is a wearable representation of cultural trends. When it takes over people in warm washes, when individuals invest their hard-earned money in the same piece as someone in a different country, that item of representation has then gone beyond individual taste and instead emerged as a communal icon of expression.

It’s no top secret that with visual consumption levels as high as they are today, we at least on some level become desensitised to world events.

Recession core, recession indicators, recession culture. Are polka dots and blazers a recession indicator? What about loafers, I ask myself. Definitely, I tell myself. Minimalist living is sooo recession culture.

If you feel like you’re overeducated and underpaid, overqualified, and undervalued, you’re probably right to feel that way.

Eerily reminiscent of autocracy and class rule was the sight from President Trump’s inauguration day, of the top 5 tech CEOs in the front row to watch the far-right wing Republican Party leader officially become the leader of the world’s largest military and strongest economy.

The growth of Sephora, the emergence of thousands of successful fashion labels, the skyrocketing fame of reality television series stars like those on Love Island and those in the Bravo sphere, and the takeover of true crime docuseries and podcasts