by Thea Elle | Jul 26, 2025 | Luxury Industrial Complex
Style Companion The Price Tag Is the Point: Why Luxury Bags and Water Bottles Are Designed to Provoke by Thea Elle | Jul., 27, 2025 | Luxury Industrial Complex It’s not about hydration or storage. It’s about status in a bottle or a bag. Whether it’s a Stanley cup in a...
by Thea Elle | Jul 23, 2025 | Satire
Style Companion The Clean Girl of Luxury: Can Gucci Save the Planet in Patent Leather Pumps? It’s official: luxury has entered its Clean Girl era. You know the aesthetic—center-parted hair, minimalist makeup, and a “sustainably sourced” tote bag that looks virtuous...
by Thea Elle | Jul 22, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Luxury Industrial Complex
Style Companion Can Luxury Be Ethical at Scale? Dior’s Italian Scandal Reveals a Fragile System by Thea Elle | Jul., 22, 2025 | Luxury Industrial Complex In Milan, the court’s ruling landed not with the crack of a gavel but with the soft thud of inevitability. Less...
by Thea Elle | Jun 30, 2025 | Luxury Accessories, Luxury Industrial Complex
Style Companion Louis Vuitton at Walmart: The End of Luxury as We Knew It by Thea Elle | June 30, 2025 | Luxury Industrial Complex It’s official: luxury has left the building. It’s now sitting quietly in your Walmart shopping cart between a Crock-Pot and a value pack...
by Thea Elle | Jun 25, 2025 | Arts & Culture
Style Companion Newsflash: Jane Skips the Line. by Thea Elle | June 26, 2025 | Style Guide Jane Birkin didn’t chase trends. She dissolved them on contact. Long before Instagram grids, front-row invites, and the glossy machinery of luxury branding, Jane moved through...