The Zine and the Unseen

Why China’s fashion magazines are losing their edge + class over sass + “Capitalism sucks for everyone” Read more posts by this author. In the house this week: Denni, Jaime, Lisha, Na, Yan, Krish, and Simon. This dispatch appeared in S02 Episode 4, along with The Cloud in Sally Rooney's Room by Jaime. Cover illustration by Lisha Jiang. Jaime: Hello friends. Our two stories this week are about creative agency (or the lack thereof), translation, and why people get mad about Ideas without looking at the structures in which they’re produced. Last month, at the Art'n’Dior exhibition unveiled during Shanghai Art Week, photographer Chen Man's magazine work from nine years ago dredged up controversy and an onslaught of hate posts on Chinese social media. Netizens and state media accused her of perpetuating Western stereotypes of the “Asian small eye” look in the “gloomy” portraits of Chinese women of minority ethnic groups, for which both she and the luxury brand apologized a week later. The p

Why China’s fashion magazines are losing their edge + class over sass + “Capitalism sucks for everyone” Read more posts by this author. In the house this week: Denni, Jaime, Lisha, Na, Yan, Krish, and Simon. This dispatch appeared in S02 Episode 4, along with The Cloud in Sally Rooney's Room by Jaime. Cover illustration by Lisha Jiang. Jaime: Hello friends. Our two stories this week are about creative agency (or the lack thereof), translation, and why people get mad about Ideas without looking at the structures in which they’re produced. Last month, at the Art'n’Dior exhibition unveiled during