Tiffanie Darke

2 months ago | theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com | Monique El-Faizy |Sinead Gleeson |Tasmina Perry |Tiffanie Darke

This is the monthly free Friday links and recs round-up from The Shift. If you’d like to receive posts like this every week, plus my weekly post, access the bookclub, archive and chat and more, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. SCROLLING• According to the New York Times, Gen X women are having the best sex. What d’you reckon? (Gift link)• I can’t get the dead eyes of Bianca Censori on the Grammy’s red carpet out of my mind. This take by Naomi Fry is worth reading.

Jan 14, 2025 | tiffaniedarke.substack.com | Tiffanie Darke

Are we are living through an age of extremes? Bitcoin is soaring while most of the population struggles to pay food and heating bills. Fires rage in Los Angeles while temperatures plummet in New York and London; wars grind on gruesomely in the Middle East and Ukraine, while billionaires snap up party pads to install 60 foot private bars and gyms. Fashion is fracturing into those who can afford a a £10k Chanel handbag, and those who haul Shein for $20 tracksuits.

Jan 7, 2025 | tiffaniedarke.substack.com | Tiffanie Darke

Fashion is a cultural pillar, it drives desire and change, it platforms creativity and innovation, it carves identity and politics and, if none of that persuades you, it’s goddamn fun - just ask Jeremy Strong’s bucket hat. Looking back on the last twelve months, you could focus on the economic downturn, the crisis in creativity, the retail paralysis, the sidelining of sustainability and the Ozempic driven return of thin. Or you could see green shoots for a new kind of industry.

Jan 2, 2025 | ruleoffive.substack.com | Tiffanie Darke

Welcome to all the new Rule of Five joiners - this is the 2025 challenge that you will not regret. It will teach you about yourself and your wardrobe, about consumerism and the value relationship you hold with your possessions, and it will teach you to be a better shopper and a better saver. For those doing this for the second - or even third year - I salute you veterans! What does it mean when you get deeper into the challenge? We will come to this later in the post. First a question.

Dec 17, 2024 | tiffaniedarke.substack.com | Tiffanie Darke

Everyone likes a bit of reflection at this time of year. “I did have my head turned,” I admitted to Mel Rickey last week on her podcast, The Enoughness. We were talking about the days of excess, when we both were fashion editors, and life was one long champagne catwalk. Mel is pretty good at wrangling things out of people, and her conversations uncover the moments when people realise they went too far.