American Obsession
Happy to be back home in New York briefly after four months in Paris. There was a time when I felt strangely uncomfortable living in a house in an American suburb instead of an apa
Trends Are Announced. Icons Are Discovered.
I don’t drink Coca-Cola. I study it. Not as business. As an object. In 1886 it was just a drink at a pharmacy counter. Five cents. One formula among many. Nothing suggested perma
Secrecy as Creative Freedom
Secrecy used to mean distance. Something closed or inaccessible.Now it feels almost necessary. We live in a time where everything asks to be explained immediately. Ideas are shared
Primal Fear
Boxing is the only sport I still occasionally watch on television. Yet over the past several years—perhaps longer—the world around it has grown increasingly strange, gradually