Ilia Sybil Sdralli
@iliasybil.bsky.social
fashion hauntology-antisocial media
how your email finds me:
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
how your email finds me:
we don’t deserve the 1920s #aesthetics
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
we don’t deserve the 1920s #aesthetics
The fashion industry's dirty secret: your favorite brands are now run by algorithms, not creative directors.
Alison Bringé, Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics, explains why data doesn't kill creativity—it exposes which brands actually have it.
Interview link in comments:
Alison Bringé, Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics, explains why data doesn't kill creativity—it exposes which brands actually have it.
Interview link in comments:
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The fashion industry's dirty secret: your favorite brands are now run by algorithms, not creative directors.
Alison Bringé, Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics, explains why data doesn't kill creativity—it exposes which brands actually have it.
Interview link in comments:
Alison Bringé, Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics, explains why data doesn't kill creativity—it exposes which brands actually have it.
Interview link in comments:
Hussein Chalayan’s 1993 graduation collection titled ‘The Tangent Flows’, which consisted of a series of buried garments that were unearthed just before the show.
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Hussein Chalayan’s 1993 graduation collection titled ‘The Tangent Flows’, which consisted of a series of buried garments that were unearthed just before the show.
all hail the aesthetics of destruction:
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
all hail the aesthetics of destruction:
Monday aesthetics-dark:
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Monday aesthetics-dark:
Paris Street Fashion featured in STREET April 1999, Volume 117, one of many amazing scans by obscuredesireofbourgeoisie Tumblr
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Paris Street Fashion featured in STREET April 1999, Volume 117, one of many amazing scans by obscuredesireofbourgeoisie Tumblr
Location Scouting Overload-#Chanel will stage its next cruise show in Biarritz on April 28, 2026.
At least it makes sense given Coco Chanel’s personal ‘relationship’ to the place itself.
At least it makes sense given Coco Chanel’s personal ‘relationship’ to the place itself.
December 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Location Scouting Overload-#Chanel will stage its next cruise show in Biarritz on April 28, 2026.
At least it makes sense given Coco Chanel’s personal ‘relationship’ to the place itself.
At least it makes sense given Coco Chanel’s personal ‘relationship’ to the place itself.
aesthetics as ethics
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
aesthetics as ethics
When I started my Substack, I kept a list of people I would die to interview. Valerie Steele was on it.
The woman running the Museum at FIT for years, legitimizing an entire academic field, proving that what we wear says who we are.
I feel blessed
thestyletitle.substack.com/p/the-freud-...
The woman running the Museum at FIT for years, legitimizing an entire academic field, proving that what we wear says who we are.
I feel blessed
thestyletitle.substack.com/p/the-freud-...
The Freud of Fashion
Legendary Scholar And Museum at FIT Director Valerie Steele on Why Studying What We Wear Means Studying Who We Are
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When I started my Substack, I kept a list of people I would die to interview. Valerie Steele was on it.
The woman running the Museum at FIT for years, legitimizing an entire academic field, proving that what we wear says who we are.
I feel blessed
thestyletitle.substack.com/p/the-freud-...
The woman running the Museum at FIT for years, legitimizing an entire academic field, proving that what we wear says who we are.
I feel blessed
thestyletitle.substack.com/p/the-freud-...
Rosalía's medieval costumes and McQueen rosary sandals aren't aesthetics. They're a response to what Byung-Chul Han diagnosed: we killed our rituals, now we scroll endlessly and feel nothing sticks
Capitalism will sell you the ritual to escape capitalism.
Capitalism will sell you the ritual to escape capitalism.
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Rosalía's medieval costumes and McQueen rosary sandals aren't aesthetics. They're a response to what Byung-Chul Han diagnosed: we killed our rituals, now we scroll endlessly and feel nothing sticks
Capitalism will sell you the ritual to escape capitalism.
Capitalism will sell you the ritual to escape capitalism.
Looks superficially exciting but lacks a cohesive vision that aligns with Chanel's overall idea. Great craftsmanship, but the house codes aren’t there, and I am missing Karl’s witty meta-irony-meets-chic.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Looks superficially exciting but lacks a cohesive vision that aligns with Chanel's overall idea. Great craftsmanship, but the house codes aren’t there, and I am missing Karl’s witty meta-irony-meets-chic.
i woke up mentally playing with the aesthetics of violence
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
i woke up mentally playing with the aesthetics of violence
instead of aesthetics, Twen Magazine Issue 1,2 1962
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
instead of aesthetics, Twen Magazine Issue 1,2 1962
we got aesthetics:
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
we got aesthetics:
the darkest dark
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
the darkest dark
the mood is techno goth
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
the mood is techno goth
How the weekend workload finds me:
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
How the weekend workload finds me:
Francesca Granata spent years proving fashion isn’t simply ‘frivolous’.And she teaches master's students at Parsons School of Design, treating fashion as a cultural practice. Oh, and she has a new book out:
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November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Francesca Granata spent years proving fashion isn’t simply ‘frivolous’.And she teaches master's students at Parsons School of Design, treating fashion as a cultural practice. Oh, and she has a new book out:
Stay tuned for today’s newsletter:
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Stay tuned for today’s newsletter:
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grey aesthetics are a reason to live
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
grey aesthetics are a reason to live
its uncanny aesthetics time
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
its uncanny aesthetics time
Today’s visual research took me to Gilles Dufour’s #BALMAIN Fall 2000 RTW collection-a visualization of ‘Parisienne’ with a Dickensian essence
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Today’s visual research took me to Gilles Dufour’s #BALMAIN Fall 2000 RTW collection-a visualization of ‘Parisienne’ with a Dickensian essence
Marina Yee was an enigma to most fashion insiders, a ‘love wolf’ as she described herself to fashion journalist Eugene Rankin. She was cool exactly because she didn’t care to be.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Marina Yee was an enigma to most fashion insiders, a ‘love wolf’ as she described herself to fashion journalist Eugene Rankin. She was cool exactly because she didn’t care to be.
thestyletitle.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
thestyletitle.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Olivier Theyskens F/W98 is the show stuck in my mind
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Olivier Theyskens F/W98 is the show stuck in my mind
A funeral parade of roses’ aesthetics
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
A funeral parade of roses’ aesthetics