Slouching Toward Spring
SSENSE
Oct 26 2019
Stella Lucia Self-Styles for Spring in New York
There’s something dystopic about the beginning of spring. Naked trees taunt the possibility of never growing leaves. The snow recedes to reveal your cigarette butts from Halloween. The dismal landscape demands decoration—even if it’s just the outside of your body, and what you put on it. In his latest editorial for SSENSE, Myles Hall spends the day with Stella Lucia, searching out her favorite corners of New York. Trying to feel alive even when the leaves won’t grow.
The Great Indoors Championing the Experience of Extreme At-Homing Before Wi-Fi, before smartphones, before meme-culture—before technology erased the need to actually be anywhere physically—was there ever a subculture built entirely around staying in and doing nothing by yourself? God is dead, rock-and-roll is dead, punk is dead—they’ve all been replaced by Netflix and chill. Today’s cool kids seem to be dedicated to disconnecting, staying in and streaming reality TV, posting selfies from bed, sharing memes about depression and anxiety. 
Day-to-night Fashion Dressing for All Occasions at a Time of Disintegrating Dualities Lifestyle magazines attempt to alleviate the stress of transitions by offering simple solutions. In repetitive, predictable copy, these magazines insist that a sartorial shift into night-mode involves tweaking one aspect of your daytime look—swapping flats for heels, a nude lipstick for a bold one, incorporating a statement piece to abruptly transform.But what they fail to address is the greater complexity of our lives. The basic cultural premise that work and play are a dichotomy has almost completely disintegrated, and with so much technological reliance—are day and night even the clear polarity they once were? Work is play, day is night, the city never sleeps, and despite all this, we have to dress ourselves. 
Tomorrow Never Dies Looking Ahead with Celebrated Model Agent Eva Gödel At Eva Gödel’s model agency, Tomorrow Is Another Day, the attitude matches the sign on the door. Although the 40-year-old has been in the business for 15 years, and her modelling agency celebrates its seventh anniversary this year, she continues to represent male models whose books demonstrate forward thinking. Freed from oily Adonis complexes, the 200+ boys and men of the agency reshape fashion’s idea of desirable masculinity. Skip bicep training and work on your manners instead.