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2022-12-07

  American Ivy: Chapter 7

I have a confession to make. To see images, notes and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman Edited by Kelly Prime Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng an...
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-11-30

  American Ivy: Chapter 6

As the 80s turns into the 90s, preppy is everywhere. All over the planet. In the United States AND Japan. And sure, preppy sort of morphs into business casual. But it also turns into something else. Something way more fashionable. To see images, notes...
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-11-23

  American Ivy: Chapter 5

Ralph Lauren ascends. And so does a slender little joke book that no one expected to be a colossal, massive bestseller. Just in time for the secret fashion revolution of the 1980s that no one ever talks about. To see images, notes, and full transcript...
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-11-16

  American Ivy: Chapter 4

Ivy starts to go out of style, thanks to the counterculture (with a lot of help from corporate America). But Ivy finds an unlikely savior in a Jewish college dropout from the Bronx. To see images, notes, and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest....
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-11-09

  American Ivy: Chapter 3

The look of the elite somehow becomes the look for everyone. And as more and more people are taking on Ivy, it only becomes cooler and cooler. Which goes against everything I thought I knew about trends. To see images, notes, and full transcripts, go ...
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-11-02

  American Ivy: Chapter 2

So where does Ivy begin? The short answer: Princeton University. The long answer is a spiral that takes us from a 1940s Chinese prison camp, to the raucous party culture of 1920s London, to the docks of downtown New York City after The War of 1812. To...
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-10-26

  American Ivy: Chapter 1

A trend forecaster follows up on a trend report from 2016. A prominent fashion buyer tells me his trends for fall 2022. And I wonder why one particular trend, against all odds, seems to come back over and over again To see the jeans of the future, alo...
  Avery Trufelman author
2022-10-12

  American Ivy: Prologue

Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear. And for a long time, one particular look has come back in style again and again and again. Or maybe it never went away. Season 3 will get to the bottom of it.
  Avery Trufelman author
2020-06-27

  Wedding Dresses

A wedding was once seen as a start of young adulthood. Now, a wedding has come to represent a crowning achievement -- a symbol that your whole life is together and you have accrued the time and space and resources to afford your ascent to another level...
  Avery Trufelman author
2020-06-26

  Diamonds

Diamonds represent value, in all its multiple meanings: values, as in ethics, and value as in actual price. But what are these rocks actually worth? The ethics and costs of diamond rings have shifted with society, from their artificial scarcity perpetu...
  Avery Trufelman author