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Talking about friendship with Leandra Medine Cohen - by Ava

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The first time I encountered Leandra on the Internet was when her blog, Man Repeller, went viral in 2010. Back then, it consisted of Leandra posting pictures of her outfits and outfit philosophy. My favorite type of post involved her demonstrating the construction of an outfit. In the first image, she’d be wearing a something simple, like a nude dress that resembled Carrie’s Naked Dress in SATC, and then in the subsequent photos more and more layers would be added, until you ended up with something like (I’m approximating here) a jacket-sweater-jacket sandwich with four watches. This series was called “From Man Getter to Man Repeller,” because in addition to being cool Leandra is extremely funny. Now, Leandra and I don’t share a ton of surface-level similarities. While she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household in Manhattan I was growing up in an atheist Chinese-Canadian household in Surrey, British Columbia. While she was a college student literally becoming famous for her sense of s

Talking about friendship with Leandra Medine Cohen Ava Jun 19, 2024 76 3 11 Share Henri Matisse, The Painter’s Family , 1911 The first time I encountered Leandra on the Internet was when her blog, Man Repeller, went viral in 2010. Back then, it consisted of Leandra posting pictures of her outfits and outfit philosophy. My favorite type of post involved her demonstrating the construction of an outfit. In the first image, she’d be wearing a something simple, like a nude dress that resembled Carrie’s Naked Dress in SATC, and then in the subsequent photos more and more layers would be added, until

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