Essays

Occasional essays!

Of the many killer lines Miranda Priestly coldly states in the film version of The Devil Wears Prada—putting cerulean and the economics of materiality…

Feb 19, 2023 •

There’s one movie I can watch over and over and over again. You might’ve heard of it. It’s entertaining, it’s a comedy/romance—which to many people…

Jul 11, 2021 •

What’s your sign? Hi, my name is Ana and I’m a Gemini. Gemini on the Taurus-Gemini cusp, to be exact, which means I’m born during the transition between…

Jul 4, 2021 •

In the timespan of almost a year, the project I last worked on has become something entirely different, going from a content discovery platform that I…

Jun 14, 2021 •

"Middle Management"

Welcome back. It’s me, Ana, and you’re reading the freshly ordained BREAD. I started this newsletter before I let myself mull too long over a name, and…

Aug 9, 2020 •

"Inside Chanel"

What do you know about Coco Chanel? Some people know nothing of the woman who built the fashion empire and see Chanel bags as a status symbol for the…

Feb 25, 2020 •

It was during the flurry of searching and learning I was doing in the early 2010s that I first heard of a fascinatingly magical yet profoundly simple…

Feb 13, 2020 •

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