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Disgusting

I've stayed in my house for twenty four fucking hours and I'm losing my mind. My body is physically rejecting the stagnant atmosphere of the indoors. I'm meant to be free yet I'm walled into the confines of four brick walls.

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Guys…I think I’ve turned into a hipster

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queen vivi photographed by my friend

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Two things:

Number one. Why are Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick the poster couple for everything?

Number two. Someone said this to me yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Everyone here looks like they just stepped out of skins but I love it”.

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Indie sleaze

Indie sleaze is back. We're loving booty shorts over leopard print tights ever so slightly covered by a slouchy fur jacket. We're saying yes to electroclash and yes to blow.

Firstly, we have to look at the originals. My favourite 2010s icons have to be Sky Ferreira, Taylor Momsen and probably Effy Stonem. They were pretty iconic. Nevertheless the medicated, alternative and slightly crazy girl has always existed in pop culture. The likes of which include Edie Sedgwick (a personal favourite), Penny Lane and Courtney Love. I guess what makes these characters so alluring is their association with danger, daring and the mysterious. Who wouldn't want to be a "manic pixie dream girl" come true.

Edie Sedgwick a poor little rich girl, torn away from her leering family by Andy Warhol at the young age of twenty two. When the two crossed paths she was Warhol's muse. The focus of his passion, love and creativity. Only a year later the two fell out of favour and Edie spiralled into addiction. She eventually passed from drug addiction after isolation from the Factory and Warhol himself. Living fast but meeting a tragic end. Sedgwick was a star in her own right and passed far too soon and far too unfortunately.

I think there are a some forerunners to this new age of the 2010s. I immediately think of Megsuperstarprincess and Cat Marnell. Two people that some may say are strikingly similar.

You could probably describe Meg as New York's Hipster Star with a blog (on hiatus since 2022) appropriately named Le Hipster Portal. It makes for a good Sunday read apart from her incessant use of le (is it great literature or just actually really insufferable). Either way she's cunty. I watched her vlog recently starring her and a night out in New York which somehow included her set at Swagchella and guess who, the British hipsters!! Now that's swag. The Mr Kratomberg was seen as a brief shadow in a handful of frames!

In Meg's blog she details her life in New York nightlife stardom, overdrafting all her bank accounts (which her Dad pays off), struggles with mental health and everything hip. Her instagram is a carousel of blasé outfits and fashion shoots or even her latest poetry. Sedgwick and her are comparable, both having an almost waifish figure, these thick drawn eyebrows and heavily experimental styles.

I know considerably less about Cat Marnell but I did watch her VFILES interview and from those three minutes I decided I loved her already. She released a book titled How to Murder your Life, chronicling her story of drug addiction and restarting life after rehab. As I see it Marnell is pretty inspirational.

All in all indie sleaze has returned, it's booming and I love it. As my favourite caption once said, Bushwick, London, Paris.