I have been yelling at folks for YEARS to set up their own portfolio websites and today's social media outages are exactly why. I'm not sure why the constant algorithm, feature and TOS changes aren't enough to show people that social media platforms are not stable foundations to build businesses on. Maybe an outage will help get the point across.

Antonio Lopez sketching Jerry Hall in 1970. An ERA! You can absolutely *feel* the energy that comes from drawing a live model. Antonio was the master of this.

This is Pat Cleveland.

Eight minutes into The Way Down and it already feels like a horror movie. 😳 The way this lines *RIGHT* up with Sabrina Strings' Fearing The Black Body. My goodness.

Okay, so... one complaint we hear most often about clothing is "Well if it cost $X to make, then why does it cost $XX to buy???"

A) Fashion brands are businesses.

B) That $X only accounts for direct materials and labor. It doesn't account for the overhead of making apparel.

https://twitter.com/VeronicaJArt/status/1380228312929341442

There are INNUMERABLE people and processes involved before the materials for a garment are even purchased and sent to a factory for bulk production. I'll go through them starting from my end as a designer, and then talk about other people and functions.