Fashion Nova is building a members' club.

Los Angeles never ceases to amaze me.

Doing my least-favorite thing today and writing this newsletter from the back of a car on the way to the airport. There’s a good chance I miss my flight which isn’t helping. Stay tuned.

Today’s letter includes some gossip around why NYFW seems so…budgeted… this year, why Los Angeles’s newest members’ club is so unusual, and the secret menu at your dermatologist’s office.

But first….

Today I’m bringing back a Feed Me feature called Guest Lecture. I wanted to capture the spirit of that (sometimes unhinged) guest lecturer who would come into your class on a Friday, drop more knowledge than you learned all year, maybe hit on a student, and then leave forever. Paid readers have an opportunity to submit questions to them in the Feed Me chat, and a few days later, I publish their answers.

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Reggie James

is the co-founder and CEO of Eternal. Eternal is an AI Gaming platform focused on new original titles. He considers himself a writer, product designer, and DJ but if you look at his Twitter you’ll see he has a lot of thoughts on startups and how to build them. More than one man in my life considers him the best and only good dresser in tech.

His most recent talks include "Embracing Irrelevancy for Progress" at FWB Fest, "This Could Still Be A Movement: Why Mars Needs A Creative Director" at The Long Now Foundation, and “FEEL EVERYTHING” at Parsons School of Design. He writes on Substack, and his work has been featured in the New Yorker, Wired, and the Washington Post. This weekend, you can ask him anything about the state of social media, crypto, and how tech isn’t that creative anymore. He told me he’s also happy to talk about, “spirituality ~ growing up in religious household, music, culture, travel.” This is going to be a fun one.

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