Everything that needs to be said about how the signifiers of cool have changed can be summed up by skateboarding, which was once the province of the ratty kids who didn't fit now being an Olympic sport along with break dancing.
I feel like a definiing quality of It girls is they are excellent at performing themselves, while appearing diffident about it. And their image-crafting and hustle is calculated to appear effortless. Other people who do all the cool things but you can see the gears grinding: they are not It people. (Also whither the It boys? Has that ever really been a thing?)
Interesting. I feel like she's the girl from Jarvis Cocker's Common People -- a petty rich girl who is living like the "common people" but can always go back to her rich daddy in the suburbs if things get too real.
Everything that needs to be said about how the signifiers of cool have changed can be summed up by skateboarding, which was once the province of the ratty kids who didn't fit now being an Olympic sport along with break dancing.
I feel like a definiing quality of It girls is they are excellent at performing themselves, while appearing diffident about it. And their image-crafting and hustle is calculated to appear effortless. Other people who do all the cool things but you can see the gears grinding: they are not It people. (Also whither the It boys? Has that ever really been a thing?)
Interesting. I feel like she's the girl from Jarvis Cocker's Common People -- a petty rich girl who is living like the "common people" but can always go back to her rich daddy in the suburbs if things get too real.