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I wish I had more to say about fashion week.

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I wish I had more to say about fashion week.

WHAT I DID Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Monday, September 9 I’m starting the writers group we’ve been talking about for months, going to the Knickerbocker for the second time this week, eating chicken paillard and micro greens, drinking wine even though it makes me flushed.

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WHAT I DID Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Monday, September 9 I’m starting the writers group we’ve been talking about for months, going to the Knickerbocker for the second time this week, eating chicken paillard and micro greens, drinking wine even though it makes me flushed. I’ve decided to be healthy, truly healthy, to make this something I prioritize even though I find it difficult to be cognizant of corporeality as something that is real. There are so many pop-ups outside my apartment today, so many stands on the street, so many restaurant openings. My friends are telling me that New York is coming alive again this season, which is strange to me because I’ve felt the opposite. A slowing, a removal, I suppose time will tell. Tuesday, September 10 I wear a black suede skirt to the Elena Velez show, a Forte Forte blouse that would have looked cooler untucked but I didn’t want to look wide, LaBucq heels, white socks, I often worry that everything I own is awful. I see Shannon in line at the show looking chic and a tiktokker known for almost unwatchable parody videos doing street interviews ahead of her. There’s the Hallowed Sons biker game revving engines loudly on the sidewalk, but when I remark at their rudeness, I am told that they are there for the show, part of the spectacle, obviously. Later, I see them inside. I’m not a fashion critic. I’m not really a critic at all. I feel earnestly, simply happy to be here. The show is on the seventh floor of an office building, an industrial space, lots of light, only two rows of seating down a long runway and an apocalyptic techno-adjacent soundtrack that, in a very pared down sense, works. A skinny man with a beard is sitting next to me. “I feel retarded for getting pumped up by this music, but this music really pumps me up,” he tells his friend. The reviews that come later are mixed. The Cut says it lacks feeling. Cultured runs an interview that is solidly positive but doesn’t say much that is new. On her Instagram stories, Taylore Scarabelli from Interview is looking for The Inside Scoop on a Rumored Scandal. Her anonymous sourcing lands on the hypothesis that casting and styling pulled out last minute in protest of some right-wing adjacent models slated to walk. I’m not sure about an inside scoop, this was the only show I attended, and I’ve always found the practice of critiquing a collection (physical form) based on a runway show (spectacle?) to be strange. Most of the fashion week criticism I’ve read this year has seemed more like scene reports anyways, and so maybe this paradox is becoming more explicit. Alexa Chung and Madewell put cigarettes on silver trays and now we’re avant-garde. Ralph Lauren is in the Hamptons . Everything is boring , but I’m never bored when I’m included, and I guess it’s hard to find objectivity within that flagrant narcissism. That being said, I like La Pucelle . I find it moving. More pared down than I expected, but refreshingly so. The collection takes inspiration from society’s shadow women, “ seeks to shatter the sensitivities of polite society ”, renegade pageant queen and prom king at the end of the world. Etc. I was given QuitwithJones mints at a pop up on the street this morning and the afterparty is sponsored by Blip nicotine gum . I’ve been indulging like it’s candy and now I’m starving and dizzy, spinning from so many milligrams of Quitting Vaping. The afterparty is at Soho Grand , a good party, a club I thought I hated but I’m having fun. Later, too late, deviled eggs and martini at Little Ways . A good stop. Something to return for on another evening, sometime when I’m not reeling. Thursday, September 12 I go to dinner at Mamo , which is not new but is a new spot to me. I sit outside. I’m with my friends who are actresses, filmmakers. I like the way they think about things and I like what they say about the sensibility of Los Angeles. Most feelings are captured better in movies and music than in scene reports. Friday, September 13 I go to Denmark first tonight. It’s the first play I’ve seen at The Brooklyn Center for Theater Research , although I took a writing class with B etsey Brown there this summer that I loved. Sophia Englesberg is a star in Denmark. The play is set at a family’s beach house at blue hour, the soft light and the intimate living room set lulling the audience into a false sense of cozy security, and then claustrophobia as the family dynamics escalate and then collapse in on themselves. Denmark is funny despite its darkness, and in some senses, I find it to trigger a sentiment of nostalgia, which then I find to be strange, because it really is quite dark. I love a storyline that contrasts aesthetic beauty with psychological hell, suburban bliss, a bitter recalling of fond memories and bygone times that increasingly, you begin to feel are half fabricated tricks of the mind, fragments of the imagination. Later, I go to the Sex Magazine party which is hellish in a different way, a fun way, it’s too crowded but that means the turnout was good. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Tonight, Saturday, September 21 from 7:30 - 9:30pm — Denmark continues The Brooklyn Center for Theater Research – “A dark yet comedic family drama by Matthew Gasda, directed by Tom Meglio.” As mentioned above, I really loved this play. Performances are listed through October 20 , if you can’t make it tonight. Also Tonight — There’s a good lineup at RASH for IDGAF: 10cust , Alirqq , boysinblush , djthankyou , garretcaramel , grahamgpt , and more. Sunday, September 22 at 7pm — Confessions is back for the third week in a row! Readings from Matilda Berke , Terry Nguyen , Gordon Glasgow , Catie Fronzak , Lucian Wintrich , Magdalene Taylor , Annabel Boardman , and Cassidy Grady . Tuesday, September 24 from 6pm to sold out — ArchiveChives holds their last NYC popup for the foreseeable future at The River Wednesday, September 25 at 7pm — There’s a new show at KGB! Dead Ladies NYC is a bimonthly event featuring presentations on three deceased dames who changed the world. A history lesson in the Red Room. Thursday, September 26 at 6pm — HEART presents a one night only performance of The Play by Maya Martinez. Starring Maya Martinez and Willow Wilderness Hour , with an opening song by Daniel Clark . Friday, September 27 — TENSE presents a much anticipated event at The Locker Room. The Fall will feature readings and performances from Anika Levy , August Lamm , Beckett Rosset , Kitty St Remy , Madeline Cash , Sophie Madeline Doss , Zack Graham , and Magdalene Taylor . Nicotine mints so you can actually quit vaping (like me!) provided by Jones . Saturday, September 28 at 8pm — $EGIRL Zine launches at Sovereign House . Readings by Cassidy , Annabel , Jo Rosenthal , Billy Pedlow , and Adeline Swartzendruber . I have a piece in this about being stalked and being manic. Sunday , September 29 at 7:30pm — Seth Price reads “BEFORE AND AFTER WRITING” at earth. Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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