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The Summer of the Flip-Flop

Notes on The Row, foot fetishes, frat bros, and suits with sandals.

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Max Berlinger
Jul 01, 2025
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Bryant Simmons in The Row

It’s been a decade since Cathy Horyn shrewdly observed that we’re living in a “post-trend universe,” nearly twenty years since Miranda Priestly gave her infamous cerulean speech explaining the top-down way trends used to filter through culture, and fifteen since Instagram launched—ultimately creating today’s chaotic sense that t…

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