Fashion’s Obsession with the Word “Archival”
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Fashion’s Obsession with the Word “Archival”
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The Writer Who Turned Gossip Into Art
T Magazine revisits the life and work of Linda Rosenkrantz, the writer who once turned conversation itself into literature. Decades after Talk captured the art-world chatter of 1960s New York, Rosenkrantz emerges as both archivist and muse: a woman whose friendships with Peter Hujar and others blurred the line between gossip and art. Amanda Fortini’s profile finds her at 91, still sharp, funny, and fascinated by language, proving that close listening can be a creative act all its own.
T MAGAZINE
Estelle Hoy visits artist Camille Henrot at her Upper West Side apartment, a space as vivid and layered as her ideas. Between her children’s chatter and her composer husband’s melodies, Henrot reflects on care, climate, and the small labors that hold the world together. She discusses her new film In the Veins, a meditation on extinction and empathy that links motherhood to environmental crisis.
APARTAMENTO
Diane Keaton, who passed on October 11 at seventy-nine, radiated wit, warmth, and restless intelligence. In Annie Hall and Marvin’s Room, she captured vulnerability, moral reflection, and the humor in human contradiction. Offscreen, she was a photographer, filmmaker, and memoirist, unflinchingly honest about her struggles. Keaton’s enduring charm came from her ambivalence, curiosity, and refusal to be anything but fully, unapologetically herself.
THE NEW YORKER
Joy Gregory’s retrospective Catching Flies with Honey at Whitechapel Gallery shows how beauty becomes a method of engagement. Through cyanotypes, salt prints, and self-portraits like Autoportrait (1990), Gregory examines race, gender, and cultural memory, making the personal political. Her work balances material craft with conceptual rigor, blending fashion, identity, and colonial critique into poetic, visually compelling narratives that draw viewers in and demand attention.
ANOTHER MAGAZINE
Jacob Gallagher breaks down the fashion world’s obsession with the word “archival.” Once a marker of historical and artistic significance, “archive” now appears on everything from vintage Raf Simons bombers to Stussy T-shirts, often at the whim of sellers and algorithms. Gallagher shows how the term has become shorthand for rarity and taste, reflecting the desire for distinction in an age of accessible luxury.