Would you eat your purse?
Rihanna might. Plus FKA twigs at the Vatican. Ticketmaster’s a monopoly. Apple names a new CEO.
Internet Microdoses
Live Nation and Ticketmaster are officially a monopoly after a jury found them liable for breaking antitrust laws. The jury found fans were overcharged on every single ticket with dubious moves like “convenience fees.” For a generation priced out of live music, the ruling is a sigh of relief.
Allbirds fully pivots to AI, ditching its wool sneaker business to rent out GPUs and cloud compute for AI companies instead. The move might seem random, but it’s already paid off with a 600% stock surge. The shoes really were that bad.
Issey Miyake turned waste paper into furniture at Milan Design Week, pressing and marbling discarded sheets into rigid, stone-like surfaces. The studio’s decades-long commitment to sustainable materials is now committed to the page itself.
FKA twigs and Dev Hynes head to the Vatican for a major installation at the 2026 Venice Biennale. They’ll join Brian Eno, Patti Smith, and many others at the event, which kicks off next month. We always knew experimental music was a blessing. The Pope just made it official.
Kodak just released new 65mm film stock. VERITA 200D was developed for Euphoria Season 3. The stock delivers high saturation, deep blacks, and a shorter dynamic range designed to recall golden-age color film. Euphoria is also the first TV production to shoot significant volumes of 65mm — a format typically used for the likes of Oppenheimer, not suburban California.
Aesthetic Study · Illusion bags
The bag-as-object gag has proven surprisingly resilient. We stopped asking “is it cake?” long ago, but luxury fashion keeps circling back to purses that look like other things. Moschino just dropped a leather apple bag, a celery purse, a watermelon clutch, and a bleach bottle. JW Anderson has the pigeon clutch and a Victoria sponge slice. Balenciaga turned a Lays chip bag and a coffee cup into four-figure leather goods. Rihanna carried a Fendi crossbody shaped like an actual loaf of bread to dinner at Carbone. Dauphinette made croissant bags out of real surplus bakery bread, coated in antifungal resin.
The trend reigns because it’s more than just a gimmick. In a market dominated by quiet luxury and indistinguishable leathers, a pigeon clutch is instantly recognizable. In a culture where everything is content, an apple bag photographs itself. And in a moment when everything feels a bit too serious, carrying a broccoli purse is the most disarming thing you can do. The object bag dominates because it makes you look twice at an everyday object. Which is, when you think about it, what fashion is supposed to do.
Zoë Yasemin is a Amsterdam-based art director whose Substack, ART DIRECTION, is one of the internet’s most dependable independent resources on image-making and visual culture. Her freelance work spans campaigns for Adidas, Jimmy Choo, Tommy Hilfiger, and Estrid, and her Strategic Art Direction course typically sells out within weeks of opening. This year she’s making space for personal work — exploring her own visual language after years of adapting to client briefs.
What do you do when you hit a creative block?
I usually step away from the screen. I have a large collection of vintage magazines and books, so sometimes I’ll open one at random and see what catches my eye. Looking at images from another time often resets my perspective and reminds me how many different ways there are to approach an idea. I also like going on very long walks with my two dogs and paying attention to the things they notice.
What’s the worst recommendation someone’s given you?
Someone once told me that if you can do something better yourself, you should just do it yourself. I never agreed with that. The most beautiful part of the creative process is sharing perspectives with others. Creativity grows much more when it moves between people.
What’s the last film you watched that moved you deeply?
Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola. I had just spent a month in Japan and realized I hadn’t seen it in years, so I watched it again. Experiencing the film after spending time in Tokyo gave it a completely different feeling.
What book have you gifted most?
Zen: The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno. It’s a very simple book you can read in one sitting, yet every time I revisit it it takes a bit of stress away.
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Object Love · Descent into Limbo
Anish Kapoor cut a hole in the floor and coated it in a pigment so it looks like a shape on the ground, not a gaping void. Descent into Limbo has lived at the Serralves Foundation in Porto since 2018, and Kapoor has never filled it. It’s like Wile E. Coyote’s painted tunnel, but real, and in a museum where several visitors might fall in (and at least one has).
It’s a strange thing to call an object, yet here we are. The hole doesn’t reflect light, hold weight, or occupy space — it just takes. And nothing anchors a collection quite like an absence. Save it to Cosmos and see what else looks right in its orbit.
Quick Hits
Apple names John Ternus as new CEO.
IKEA officially released a Swedish meatball lollipop.
Adidas made a full clothing line for pets.
Cassette players are getting a luxury reboot.
The Getty Center is closing for a year-long renovation.
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