#narcisse magazine

[knittinganddrinkingtea]

Emily DiDonato by David Roemer for Narcisse Magazine Issue 6

[celebratingwomen]

Charlotte Lawrence for Narcisse magazine, 2023

[unes23]

Daphne Groeneveld for Narcisse Magazine by Aingeru Zorita

[redcarpet-streetstyle]

[fashion-boots]

Boots by Juunj

Joan Smalls by David Roemer for Narcisse Magazine, Issue #7 2017.

[houseofbrat]

https://twitter.com/UKRoyalTea/status/1658985098492928000

This is so brilliant given how much media is based in NYC. 

Everyone can send reporters to verify footage all over town.

[alpojones]

[inspirednarcissus]

Joseph Bach in Narcisse by Julie Marie Gene Gobelin for Bizart Magazine.

[modelsof-color]

Nyajuok Kueth by Carla Coste for Narcisse Magazine Issue 13

[heavenlyyshecomes]

misc readings pt. 11

tech edition

It's not your fault you're a jerk on twitter, katherine cross, wired

Becoming human again: a reading list for the extremely offline, lisa bubert, longreads

The internet is rotting, jonathan zittrain, the atlantic

ambient cruelty, linda besner, real life magazine

Searching for lost knowledge in the age of intelligent machines, adrienne lafrance, the atlantic

Ghosts of the future: the smart home is a haunted house, julia foote, real life magazine

The internet is flat, charlie warzel, galaxy brain

How TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India, rachna khaira, rest of the world

Vivid hues: what does it mean to think of the internet as a color? anna rose kerr, real life magazine

Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare, peter guest, rest of the world

The $2 per hour workers who made chatgpt safer, time

I cut the 'big five' tech giants from my life. It was hell, kashmir hill, gizmodo

Social media is not self-expression, rob horning, the new inquiry

The narcissism of queer influencer activists, jason okundaye, gawker

On losing perspective, or, why i don't give a fuck about geronimo the alpaca and nor should you, rachel connolly, novara media

The exploited labour behind artificial intelligence, noema

The class politics of the instagram face, grazie sophia christie, tablet

Google, amazon, and meta are making their core products worse on purpose, ed zitron, business insider

All advertising looks the same these days. Blame the moodboard, elizabeth goodspeed, eye on design

Seen by, megan marz, real life

[knittinganddrinkingtea]

Emily DiDonato by David Roemer for Narcisse Magazine Issue 6

[celebratingwomen]

Tinashe for Narcisse Magazine

[mysewingadventures]

Making the ✨Lioncourt Gown✨ (Part 2/4)

I'm glad I started making this gown early because things... have not exactly been going according to plan.

In my last post I mentioned I had ordered some satin tape for the color details, but yesterday my order suddenly got canceled and I couldn't find tape anywhere. I scowered the entire internet for some 10mm ivory satin bias tape but I got absolutely nothing. Finally, I decided to settle for 15mm and now I'm waiting for that to arrive and crossing my fingers it won't get canceled again.

In the meantime, I've been left to do minor work on everything else, but wasn't really able to actually make much progress because I can't do anything before I apply that tape. I sewed the boning channels on the inside of the bodice and put some boning in (artificial baleen - I used to use cable ties for this but the artificial baleen is just much softer and easier to cut/work with).

I also attempted to make a sleeve pattern by altering a sleeve pattern I found in The Voice of Fashion (a compilation of magazines with sewing patterns from the turn of the century. Highly recommend if you're into that time period!). Now, as I've probably mentioned in every other post of mine, I absolutely suck at making sleeves so this was the only way it could turn out somewhat okay, so I made the pattern, made a mock-up to make sure it fit and also because I couldn't afford to waste any of the black base fabric, and once I was happy with it I cut it out of the black fabric with the help of my lovely assistant.

Maybe I should mention that my assistant is rarely helpful, but we're a family business, what can I say.

Then I drew a line down the center of the sleeve along which I was going to lay the color details and then went to cut them out. Once again, a super tedious process that took me about two to two and a half hours just to cut out 32 individual triangles. But towards the end, i started to get the hang of it and was able to do it faster. Maybe the skirt details won't be as tedious now, hopefully (who am I kidding it's going to be hell).

I also decided to make a little detail I would add to the bodice later. It just felt right to inscribe the name of the gown (and its original wearer in a way) with fancy letters, because it just wouldn't be a gown inspired by Lestat without a touch of narcissism, now, would it?

This morning, my skirt fabric was finally delivered! I was worried the color was going to be too bright but it's this perfect terracotta shade that I was looking for! I'm always a little wary of buying fabrics online, especially when I need them in an exact color, but this one's truly beautiful and I'm so happy I got it. Immediately, I went to work on the skirt because I thought finally! I can make some progress!

18th century skirts are super easy and quick to make. You just need two rectangular pieces of fabric, some pins and that's pretty much it. The sizing is also very forgiving so you'll be fine if it ends up being a few centimeters too big or too small. It is however better to make them on the bigger side if you're unsure. So I cut the fabric according to my measurments and went to pleating.

You'll want to do one big pleat in the center and then go from there. In my case, I cut the fabric into a 1x1m square, and pleated from the center to the edge to get the 1m down to around 37cm (half of the waist circumference). Since the fabric was around 1,40m wide originally, I thought I'd just pleat the 1,40 edge down to 37cm and get a fuller skirt as a result, but it was really difficult to get it down to that size so I decided to shorten it down to 1m. So you'll just have to just try and see what works.

Next up, I folded over the pleated edge to create a more finished look and sewed that with a sewing machine. Then I finished the outer edges before connecting the sides while the skirt was inside out. Technically, you could do this differently by doing a flat-felled seam which would give you a nicer finish, but that required a lot of thinking and pinning on my part which, to be completely honest, I wasn't feeling, so I decided to do it this way. This method requires more thread, but to me feels 'easier'. Either way, when you connect the edges, make sure to not connect them all the way to the top, or you won't be able to put it on afterwards. Leave a small slit of roughly 15cm (I eyeballed it, no need to be precise here) on each side at the top of the skirt.

Lastly, I finished the bottom seam and added some cotton tape to fasten it, and voilà- the skirt.

I pinned everything I have so far to the mannequin, the sleeves and the color details are all just pinned for now so apologies for the messy look, i just wanted to give you an idea of what it may look like when it's done. Hopefully, I'll get the tape by the week end and will be able to continue with the work.

Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4|

[unes23]

Sara Sampaio for Narcisse Magazine by Greg Swales

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Meghan's mistake -- living in the 1990s by u/Hermes_Blanket

Meghan's mistake -- living in the 1990s Meghan grew up on sets in the Hollywood of the late 1980s and 1990s. That was her formative period. At that time, very few outside the entertainment industry had yet seen behind the curtain of publicists, red carpets, PR, and puff pieces that were used to promote actors and their projects. Meghan, however, was an insider due to her father's job and his contacts. So she learned how it all worked, and internalized that knowledge.This was obviously all before the Internet. No YouTube, Twitter, or ability to leave comments on articles. You could write a letter to the editor of a magazine, and it might appear the next month, but that was all.In the 2000s, Meghan became Internet-educated at the same pace as the rest of us. She understood the power of blogging to create an image, thus The Tig, and had a Twitter account.However, I don't think she realized the impact that the explosion of social media in the mid-2010s was going to have. Most importantly, the fact that ordinary people without money would be able to make their opinions heard worldwide on YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit subs, etc. And that they would be able to instantly respond to online articles and puff pieces via comments. This was unheard of back in the 1990s.After Megxit, when she was trying to become a mega-influencer (or a Megain-fluencer, haha), she kept on using the same old methods she saw actors using when she was growing up. Red carpets, designer clothes, making "surprise" appearances, grinding out puff pieces, hiring an expensive PR firm.Too late, she realized that now that anyone could publicly express their opinions on her actions, her hypocrisy and narcissism would be exposed much more quickly than in the old days. She tried to fight back -- first, by pouring more and more money into puff pieces and PR, and second, by enlisting Bouzy and the sugars -- but it was too late, and there were too few of them compared to her detractors.Too bad, so sad! post link: https://ift.tt/qtdkxO6 author: Hermes_Blanket submitted: October 29, 2024 at 05:39PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[houseofbrat]

It’s almost like Harry’s wife should be in a museum for crazy people:

In a conversation with ex-BBC journalist Andrew Gold for his On the Edge podcast, Vanessa Grigoriadis explains why Meghan is the product of her upbringing in a dysfunctional family on the fringes of Hollywood, the world’s so-called dream factory.

As Grigoriadis explained in the podcast and in her Vanity Fair story, the wife of Prince Harry is an ambitious “striver” who has long sought to be “a household name” and to rise above her family’s middle-class but unconventional “shaggy-dog tale” existence. To do that, she worked hard in high school and college, struggled to make it in Hollywood, aggressively courted press attention as a B-list cable TV actor and crafted narratives about her life that are not necessarily aligned with “reality.”  Grigoriadis agreed that the latter is a very Hollywood thing to do.

“What we know now about her is that she has a sort of a strange relationship to objective reality,” Grigoriadis said. “She has this warped reality and then she marshalls evidence underneath it to support a thesis that may not be the case.”

How crazy do you have to be to stand out among Hollywood reporters who interview crazy celebs and their entourage on a regular basis?