High Noon 1: Setting Sail...in classic fashion
What is High Noon?
I’m so glad you asked.
High Noon came to me earlier this summer — sitting in the garden at lunch, drinking from a phenomenal blue and yellow bottle, the inspiration for the HN color palette — and I sat and sipped on that hot July day, the details of the project started to fall into place.
Most of my friends know that I have been obsessed with magazines for, well, the past decade really. My large stack of Kinfolks became something of a running ribbing with some of my college friends (slow living turned into an un-asked-for personal brand). Since those early seeds, I've been searching for ways to practice the work of curating and editing. High Noon is the first iteration of that.
High Noon is a publication featuring the most interesting content from around the web; I am not a niche person and so High Noon is not a niche publication. Many elements of culture will have their day in the sun. It's a dinner party conversation for your inbox.
And participation in the conversation is encouraged! Let's converse during and beyond lockdown. If a link, video, annotation, etc. piques your interest, send me a note. And if you have original work of your own to share, I'll be accepting submissions soon.
High Noon is scrambling up and down rocks in the Mediterranean and dancing at a backyard dinner party and staying up late swapping stories with people who were but now aren't strangers.
Well folks, that's all for now. Have a look around, make yourself comfortable, and see you at noon ;)
xoxo,
SCREMES (Shawn)
The Roundup
Take a virtual walkthrough of the home of the Pythia, a girl whose famed prophecies (potentially derived from hallucinogenic vapors rising out of the earth) guided the fates of cities. Natasha Stagg captures the perfect pain of loving a place. As Beirut works to rebuild amidst multiple government officials' resignations, multiple groups need donations. I desperately want the chairs in Malú Dalla Piccola's appartement. Speaking of interiors, Founder of home furnishing platform Dendwell Tenlie Mourning started a campaign calling for home decor brands and media outlets to pledge that 13% of annual creative, content, and collaborations will be produced by and/or feature a black creator. This insane Los Feliz estate recently came to market. As for fashion, yet again, Simon Jacquemus showed everyone how to put on a show. But, will fashion shows even matter in the future of the market? Irina Aleksander wrote the week’s (and maybe all quarantine’s) top piece on the subject...
The bottom line is that the self-destruction of the department stores coupled with the venture capitalists’ voracious appetite for fast growth, even over long-term success, was leading to a reckoning in fashion, even before COVID-19.
“If the wholesale model could no longer be relied on to fund young designers, and private equity and venture capitalists pushed them to expand so quickly that they inevitably imploded, was there any hope for brands to grow slowly and thoughtfully over time? If not, fashion might go the way of other industries, like film, in which there are the blockbusters and the tiny indies and nothing in between. ‘Band [of Outsiders] didn’t need to be a $100 million brand,’ Sternberg said. ‘But is there a place for a $30 million brand that can self-sustain and be around year after year? Certainly not with big backers, because that’s not interesting to them. Wholesale used to be able to support that, but it also ultimately killed it.’ ”
Watch
Dior stands together with a handful of brands, including Hermès, that chose the route of crafting a fully digital experience to show their FW2020-2021 Haute Couture collection this summer. Maria Grazia Chiuri, in collaboration with director Matteo Garronne, created a successful follow-up to SS2020’s buzzy Haute Couture show. A fantastical romp through the garden of the muses, fully accessible online, especially during a time when people most crave an escape, is exactly the role Couture ought to fill.
Cheers
The Clawfoot, an Elevated Bathtub Punch
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz. Dry Vermouth
1 oz. Lillet Blanc
Bitters
Tonic
Lemon zest & a candied lemon twist