Soigné

11/01/2025

Soigné contributor Teri Brake, breaks down (pun intended) why everyone American is rooting for Canada tonight except those traitors in LA/California.

Today’s the day. Game 7 of the World Series. This year's edition pits the defending champ Los Angeles Dodgers, those smug, repeat-chasing overlords with their Shohei Ohtani cheat codes, against the Toronto Blue Jays, who clawed their way back from a 2024 dumpster fire to remind everyone that maple syrup and mediocrity can occasionally birth a miracle.

10/28/2025

We live in an era where depravity no longer disqualifies. It trends. And NO we are not talking about Donald Trump.

When Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia (yes, the man who would enforce the law against murder [on appeal]) was revealed to be texting and calling a fellow member of the Virginia General Assembly about shooting a Republican, the former House Speaker no less, “twice in the head,” and watching his children die, the reaction was not outrage...

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10/21/2025

There is no legitimacy left in the postwar order, only inertia, arrogance, and decay. What was once a scaffolding to prevent another world war has calcified into a bureaucratic mausoleum. The United Nations, NATO, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization, each conceived as a guardian of peace, prosperity, and progress, have become metastasized systems of control.

10/17/2025

Imagine a day in this island fantasy:

You set off under the Supersized Sunhat, your canvas tote strapping essentials as you walk dune paths.
At midday, a dip in saltwater, then you rinse and press a light sheet over your shoulders.
Evening falls, you apply SalvEtion Crème to skin that knows the sun’s touch, then swirl on Classical (or Tzor’a) and slip into linen trousers for dinner by the sea.
The Weekender carries the rest of the set — spare swimwear, a silk scarf, a journal — as you motor toward the horizon tomorrow.

10/15/2025

To understand why certain looks endure, one must understand what gives them shape: restraint. Timeless fashion isn’t conservative, it’s composed. It innovates within boundaries, not beyond them. It knows where to stop.

06/05/2025

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05/27/2025

The popular complaint today is that heels are oppressive—that they limit movement, that they’re painful, that they exist for the benefit of the viewer, not the wearer. All of that may be true in a modern context. But the irony is this: women weren’t forced into heels.

They adopted them.
Just like men once did.

And when men saw that power was being imitated—or perhaps challenged—they shifted the image of power to something else. This wasn’t a conspiracy. It’s a pattern. One that plays out over and over again in fashion.

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05/27/2025

There was a time when dressing like an emperor of Heaven was considered a humble submission to something greater than oneself. Today, to see a Roman cardinal draped in yards of bright scarlet silk—soutane, fascia, biretta—feels almost absurd, like an antique ghost haunting a world obsessed with normcore hoodies and $5,000 “quiet luxury” tailoring.

What happened?

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05/21/2025

What the Met needed—and what Superfine deserved—was danger. Black dandyism has always been about subversion: about turning oppression into spectacle and survival into style. What it got instead was the Pinterest-board version of progress, curated by a woman who has spent her entire career editing Blackness out of the frame unless it served her narrative.

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04/27/2025

Luxury fashion didn’t suddenly discover ethics. It discovered that ethics sell.

Today, sustainability isn’t just a marketing tool—it’s a product tier. Brands like Prada, Loewe, and Saint Laurent now offer $2,000–$5,300 raffia bags as totems of climate-conscious status. “Carbon neutral” becomes shorthand for carbon offsets, and “recycled” often means blending a few plastic fibers into petroleum-heavy fabrics.

The promise? You're buying less harm.

The truth? You're just buying better storytelling.

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04/26/2025

In Washington, where even ghosts seem to require security clearance, James L. Swanson walked like a man who already knew the ending. Not just to the chapter, but to the book, the movie adaptation, and the out-of-print liner notes. He was a raconteur in a city of scripted statements—a man who could quote both Lincoln and Lucille Bluth with equal conviction, and often did.

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04/25/2025

There was a time when fashion didn’t just reflect culture—it mocked it. When designers scorned convention, when models didn’t wear masks like surgical patients but strutted like insurgents. Fashion was once the domain of the dissenters, the provocateurs, the heretics of taste and tribe. But somewhere between the first lockdown and the last brand-approved pronoun pin, the industry traded in its edge for orthodoxy. It traded rebellion for relevance.

And in doing so, it lost something far more valuable than market share: its soul.

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