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WELCOME TO THE·BY·PRODUCT. A WEEKLY RECAP OF WHAT IS GOING DOWN & WHAT IS COMING UP ON THE INTERNET.
YESTERDAY’S PUBLISHING DATE GOT MOVED DUE TO FLIGHT DELAYS, LONG DAYS, AND GATEWAYS. AFTER AN AMAZING WORK AND FUN FILLED WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY AND GETTING DOWN TO WHAT WE DO HERE. GIVING YOU SOME TASTY, CLICK WORTH INTELLIGENCE VIA SOME HYPER LINKS.
THIS WEEK’S “HOT TAKE”
ACCIDENTS NEVER HAPPEN.
CATEGORY: FOOD FIGHT
Are you an Oatly drinking vegan libtard or a red-pilled edge-lord chugging goat milk with a side of raw deer heart? Then The Rainforest Inside Us is for you.
Food has always been a locus of social conflict. Let’s not forget “Let them eat cake!” fueled the French Revolution. Globalization has increasingly stripped us of our ties to the culinary traditions of our ancestors and homogenized the contents of grocery stores and restaurants with ultra-processed foods. It’s no surprise that diet has become a fraught political debate, a source of profound anxiety, and a powerful means to establish your identity and values.
In Season 2 of Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgenson’s The Restaurant, we return to “The Restaurant” itself, a corporate skyscraper filled with experimental chefs of many different species.
Café Wha? is one of its innovative establishments that functions as an eatery and also a police interrogation room. Is food anxiety the new prison of our own making? Do you find your kitchen triggering? There’s just so much to do in it: cook, clean, slowly poison yourself with chemicals and GMO’s. / Via DIS
CATEGORY: NYFW
Rather than stage a New York Fashion Week show, the brand took a more inclusive approach: it shut down traffic in downtown Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon with its first pop-up shop dedicated to handbags, allowing customers to buy the viral design in-person.
Telfar Clemens teamed with Rainbow — the nationwide fast-fashion chain — as the pop-up location. The Rainbow on Fulton Street was cleared of every last neon, fishnet legging and cropped corset top to make way for Telfar bags in all sizes and colors — creating a literal rainbow of accessories across the store’s two floors. If you remeber how iconic Fulton street was in the 90s, this all makes sense, well, sort of anyways. Via / WWD
CATEGORY: ICONIC
Fresh off the heels of our Paris trip, French icon Jane Birkin and A.P.C. drop a pretty tight collab, even if they are not BFFs.
This is not an instance of two friends scheming but rather two eccentrics meeting their match, as they explained in a joint phone call. “We are not friends!” Touitou yells, breaking into laughter, although “obviously we have a lot in common.” It was Touitou’s idea to work with Birkin. A mutual acquaintance connected them, bringing to fruition the latest of what A.P.C. calls its “interactions.” The last one with an actress, Birkin notes, was with Catherine Deneuve. “I thought, that’s really chic to be doing it after Deneuve!” / Via Bazaar c/o SIC
CATEGORY: SEE NO EVIL
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is rolling out a new copyright framework designed specifically for NFTs, outlining the rights given to holders when they buy crypto art. With billions invested in the Web3 space, a16z may be trying to ensure that artists are given the tools to lay out exactly how they want their NFTs to be used… keeping them out of a future lawsuit that could hurt their (and a16z’s) bottom line. / Via TheFutureParty
CATEGORY: TWO TIMES DOPE
Talking to dope people … making dope friends … building a dope community … linking & building in the dopest possible way while AVOIDING CURSED “BRAND ACTIVATIONS” …
These are the themes coursing & crackling through today’s sletter, where we busted open our “Personal Spyplane” dossier of reader-submitted questions and tackled queries on the subject of meaningful I.R.L. connections…. profoundly. The prior text comes to you direct from Jonah & Erin. / Via BBSP
CATEGORY: ELF ON A SHELF
The character in question is an elf-like man wearing a red shirt and white overalls. He has pointy ears and a gray beard. His eyes are closed, and he appears to be in the middle of talking, or perhaps sneezing. Given his red shirt, he could be one of Santa’s helper elves, or he could be an eccentric inventor or a wacky grandpa or a citizen of some larger elf universe. However, this elf has stumped the Internet. / Via NewYorker
CATEGORY: I SHOP THEREFORE I AM
Instagram is planning to drastically scale back its shopping features, the company told Instagram staffers on Tuesday, as it shifts the focus of its e-commerce efforts to those that directly drive advertising. The retreat shows how Meta Platforms is moving away from some long-term projects as it focuses on building its short-form video business. / Via The Information
CATEGORY: SUSTAINABLITY
Let’s change the way we shop. Selfridges is aiming for almost half its interactions with customers to be based on resale, repair, rental or refills by 2030 as the upmarket department store responds to increasing demand for more sustainable shopping.
The retailer said it wanted to step up action after increasing sales of secondhand items by 240% to 17,771 pieces last year and facilitating 28,000 repairs, more than a third of which were pairs of trainers, in its effort to trade in a more environmentally sustainable way. It also rented out more than 2,000 items to customers and sold more than 8,000 refills. / Via The Guardian
CATEGORY: TREND REPORT
Our closets, and subsequently the costumes we wear in the outside world, have become a referential mindfuck so complex that it’s difficult to parse what “club” anyone belongs to. But maybe that’s the underlying trend ethos of 2022—wear whatever makes you feel good right now. Here are the trend forecasts for FW22. A batch of healthy research can be found here. Via / SSENSE
CATEGORY: ICONS
One woman that I can safely say did it way before anyone else, and when I say “It” I mean almost everything that can be considered cool today. That woman is Debbie Harry aka “Blondie” even though that was just the name of the band and not the person on the microphone.
By the early 1970s, the Greenwich Village folk scene had faded, and a new sound was wafting up from the street. New York Dolls frontman David Johansen says it found a home just north of Bleecker Street and east of Washington Square. "I was friends with Eric Emerson, who had a band called Magic Tramps, and he said that he was going to do a gig at this new place, Mercer Arts Center, and would my band want to come and open for him?" Click through to read the rest of the story. Via / NPR