Author: Elena Rodriguez

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Elena writes about style as a form of communication — what fashion signals, conceals, and occasionally gets wrong.

Sun-drenched suburban Los Angeles street evoking early 1980s aesthetic

Ryan Murphy is adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 autofiction novel The Shards, set in 1981 Los Angeles. Expect excess, menace, and demon twinks.

Interior of a high-end fashion boutique with minimalist displays and dark clothing racks

David Sedaris visited Comme des Garçons’ Manhattan store and defended Rei Kawakubo’s menswear against the claim that she “hates men.”