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Sanjaya's avatar

EVERYONE SHUSH MY FAVOURITE WRITER IS HERE

Patrick Kho's avatar

☺️🥰

Patrick Kho's avatar

You flatter me too much!

ivana's avatar

gymshark and soho house in this modern day now go hand in hand and i think that’s all thats needed to say about SH

Patrick Kho's avatar

literally same moodboard type

Ivy Yang's avatar

Institutionalizing cool has always been a losing proposition.

But this—checkered dinner jackets with Gucci Horsebit loafers—ick.

Patrick Kho's avatar

genuinely vomit inducing

Ivy Yang's avatar

I'm sorry you had to witness that.

wmy's avatar
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Janan Ganesh, FT’s Soho-House-hype man, would find it hard to refute your account, methinks.

Patrick Kho's avatar

I definitely don't have the final say on "cool" but I'm inclined to think that my opinion is more reliable than a International Politics Commentator at a finance publication.

Sanjaya's avatar

So, "good culture is antithetical to scale and antithetical to an unfettered globalism." reminds me of the globalization paradox argument and the hyper gentrification argument. Even so, I can't say I can think of any (for the lack of a better word) solutions to the issue? Some people could argue that intentional upkeep and preservation of culture is the way to go, but even then how does one necessarily make out if this preservation comes because the community wants it or if its yet another trend that corporate/capitalist forces want to hop on? I'm just thinking out loud hahaha.

Patrick Kho's avatar

Sean Monahan has a great trend report on "scene cool" that offers a great answer to this question

Sanjaya's avatar

"Little top big pants"...hey okay no need to call me out like that 😭. Also, best line of this piece probably is "I decide that if he’ll catch me secretly reporting the party, I might as well talk to him." 😂 (lmao jk)