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Next-Gen Noses: The Indie Perfumers Shaking Up Scent

The secrets of the insular perfume industry are now accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Self-taught perfumers are stepping into the limelight with their own successful brands, challenging the notion that one must follow the perfume-school-to-fragrance-house pipeline. Along the way, these “guerilla” noses are pushing the boundaries of olfactive art — and redefining what it means to be a perfumer in the first place.

STYLE

By Morgan Smith

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On November 23, a line of fashion girlies snaked around the corner of Broadway and Canal Street in Lower Manhattan. Street vendors selling counterfeit goods hawked “Louis Vuitton” bags and “Gucci” wallets, but that’s not what the crowd was there for. They were waiting for the opening of Telfar’s first-ever store. 

CULTURE

By Ana Andjelic

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LinkedIn is ablaze. A hodgepodge of sales pitches, hot takes and self-help advice, LinkedIn is a strange place at the best of times. But since Jaguar unveiled its new ad, the platform has been united in what to talk about.

SNEAKERS

By Jake Silbert

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The Book of Birkenstock is exactly what it sounds like. It's a massive tome dedicated to basically everything Birkenstock's done in the past two and a half centuries, so it's quite a miracle that the book only 688 pages.