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MINI SCROLL: Xandra Pohl new man, Joe Alwyn speaks, Swifties vs. Brat Girl Summer + Oscar de la Renta goes D2C · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
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  Oh my God, I one day I will be able to tell you guys the story
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  of what is going on right now in the business.
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  Today is not the day. But let me just say last week
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  was one of the most wild weeks of my life and it's still
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  ongoing. And because of that, my team has
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  had to be pretty much all on deck helping.
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  So we did not have any time last week to prep a deep dive for
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  this coming Friday. So just know that this Friday
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  there is no deep dive. It is for a good reason.
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  One day I'll be able to tell you guys what's happening.
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  It is such a wild story. It has nothing to do with
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  anything else that has happened this year.
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  I can't believe the curve balls that have been thrown at me this
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  year. It's literally like I'm living
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  in the twilight zone. It's like the business is
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  imploding on itself, like just month after month.
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  It just keeps snowballing and it feels like it's just kind of
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  like getting worse and worse. It's actually just wild.
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  Anyways, yes, there is no deep dive this Friday.
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  I just want to let you guys know off the top there, but I hope
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  you guys had a good weekend. We have quite a few stories
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  today so let's just get right into it, OK?
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  The 1st way that I have for you guys is that Xandra Pole
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  allegedly has a new man. So TikTok star and DJ Xandra
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  Pole is rumored to be dating ex NFL player Danny Amendola.
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  Rumors started after Xandra was spotted at Tom Brady's Hall of
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  Fame induction last Wednesday night.
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  The two, as in Xandra and Danny, were seated at the same table
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  beside each other and everyone was basically kind of like why
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  would Xandra be there? Like what would be the reason
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  for her to be there if it was not as Danny's date?
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  However, I would counter this, she did recently become a Sports
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  Illustrated rookie and that has sports in the title.
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  So I don't know, maybe that means she's now invited to like
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  sports related things like she's a huge TikTok star and now she's
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  associated with Sports Illustrated, which I'm pretty
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  sure aside from just being like a bikini magazine.
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  Do they talk about sports? I don't know.
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  I actually have no idea. But I feel like that could be on
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  brand. Like I feel like she could have
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  just like got herself an invite, you know?
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  I don't know. Anyways, there are some really
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  interesting ties here if this is true and it has to do with Alex
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  Earl. So as we know Alex and Zandra,
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  they went to the University of Miami together.
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  They were in the same friend group and for a long time people
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  thought they were like best friends.
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  They tik toked a lot together and then they kind of seemed to
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  have some type of falling out. And when they both walked Sports
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  Illustrated swim week for Miami Swim week last week or the week
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  before I think it was, they didn't seem to interact at all.
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  And they were like in photos together, but like apart from
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  each other. Like there was multiple girls in
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  between them. They didn't do any photos, any
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  stories together it seemed. So I definitely think like
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  something happened there. Anyways.
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  OK so somebody wrote this on TikTok quote.
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  So Xandra is dating Danny Amendola, who dated Olivia
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  Culpo, whose sister is Sofia Culpo, who dated Braxton
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  Barrios, who is dating Alex Earle, who used to be Xandra's
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  BFF. I'm dead.
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  So basically, if this is true, it means that Xandra and Alex
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  are both with the Culpo's exes. As we know, Xandra went through
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  a very public breakup with her university boyfriend back in
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  December. She was having a hot girl year,
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  single girl year. And I mean, I'm just like
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  obsessed with Xandra. Like, I don't know, I can't, I
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  can't quit her. Like, you guys know I love me a
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  problematic blonde. I actually, she's not really
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  that problematic. She's just like a crazy party
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  girl. She just gives like Gen.
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  Z Kesha, you know, like I just love that vibe.
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  That's why I love Trisha Paytas. So I love Tanna Mojo, like I
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  just love that vibe. And that is Zandra a bit more
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  toned down. Like she's definitely more put
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  together than some of those examples, but I just love her.
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  But Danny is 15 years older than Zandra.
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  Forgot to mention if they are dating, which is kind of like
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  like it's fine, but it's just a bit like, you know, OK.
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  In more relationship news, the next story that I have for you
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  guys, I couldn't not discuss Joe Alwyn finally addressing his
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  split from Taylor Swift in a new interview.
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  So in an interview with The Sunday Times, Joe broke his
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  silence on his 6 1/2 year relationship with Taylor and
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  their very public breakup. So the public found out about
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  the breakup on April 8th, 2023 from e-news and Joe in this
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  interview actually shared that they had only just broken up
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  like one week before that report, he said.
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  Quote, I hope that anyone and everyone can empathize and
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  understand the difficulties that come with the end of a long,
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  loving, fully committed relationship of over 6 1/2
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  years. That is a hard thing to
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  navigate. What is unusual and abnormal in
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  this situation is that one week later, it's suddenly in the
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  public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in.
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  He also hinted that there were many things the public didn't
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  know about, like from their split.
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  Obviously Taylor has kind of shared things here and there and
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  her songs. From what it seems like from her
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  side at least, it's that, you know, Joe just dragged his feet
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  in terms of marrying her and she felt like maybe he had lost
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  interest. That's at least what I gather
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  from so long London. Or what is it?
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  Goodbye, London. No, I think it's so long London.
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  Anyways, so he said quote. So you have something very real
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  suddenly thrown into a very unreal space, tabloids, social
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  media press where it is then dissected, speculated on, pulled
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  out of shape beyond recognition. And the truth is, to that last
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  point, there's always going to be a gap between what is known
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  and what is said. I have made my peace with that.
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  I mean, I think that's like the way you have to navigate if
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  you're a celebrity in general or even like an influencer, someone
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  who is like talked about in the public sphere.
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  Like you really just have to like have a strong sense of self
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  and just peace with the fact that the public is going to talk
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  about you, have opinions about you.
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  They're projecting intention on you.
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  They're, you know, you're kind of like this blank canvas where
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  people can just put their opinions and feelings and
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  projections onto. And if you don't have that
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  really strong sense of self and you haven't made peace with like
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  letting people talk and believe what they want, 'cause you know
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  the truth about yourself and your experiences and stuff, then
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  that would just absolutely eat you alive.
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  So good for him that he's able to reconcile with that.
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  I don't think you could date Taylor Swift, especially for
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  that long, if you didn't have that inside.
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  I mean, she's literally one of the most famous people in the
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  world by far, especially right now.
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  So, yeah. But in some more Taylor Swift
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  news, a quick little one, she is being accused of blocking
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  Charlie Xex from chopping the chopping the tarts.
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  Oh, my God. Topping the charts.
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  I have to keep that in OK. So tortured poets department.
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  It has been number one on the UK charts for six weeks in a row.
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  And on Thursday afternoon, Taylor released two versions of
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  Tortured Poets Department featuring live recordings that
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  were only available until 11:59 PM that evening, which also
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  happens to be the end of the chart tracking week.
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  Oh my God, am I OK? Chart Chart tracking week.
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  So there's like a battle in the fandoms right now between
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  Charlie XCX fans and Taylor Swift fans like Swifty's because
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  Charlie's album is so busy, everybody's talking about it.
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  It's like, so culturally of the moment, you know, like,
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  everyone's like Brat Girl Summer and her songs are like, slowly
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  climbing the charts and everyone's like, OK, they're
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  going to hit #1 and then Taylor keeps sliding on in with new
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  versions of tortured Poets department, and that knocks her
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  back up to the top. So people think that this is
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  intentional. And there's also apparently
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  possibly like, a shady lyric that Charlie wrote about Taylor
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  singing about how she doesn't want to see her at the 1975
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  shows, alluding to when she was dating Maddie Healey, allegedly.
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  So anyways, there's like some drama for sure, but people are
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  really like, I actually I'm shocked that Taylor keeps
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  releasing these versions with all the discourse out there.
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  Like she obviously doesn't need any more money and there's so
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  much disdain for this. There's so much public
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  discourse. Like for somebody who cares a
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  lot or has seems to care a lot about what the public thinks of
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  her and how her fans perceive her, she seems very much like a
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  people pleaser. I think she's kind of breaking
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  out of that the older she gets. But still, you know, she's very
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  conscious of, like, her PR perception.
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  It's very bizarre that she keeps releasing these new additions.
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  There's got to be a reason. I don't know.
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  I mean, aside from the fact that obviously fans are buying them.
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  I'm sure they're all selling out.
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  But yeah, so people think that the two pop girlies are beefing.
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  And I also saw somebody on TikTok say that this is like
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  that Charlie XCX. And like, everything around Brat
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  just really highlights how millennial cringe Taylor Swift
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  is. They're like, look at the side
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  bangs. I don't know.
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  But like Taylor is millennial and she is cringe.
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  Like she's like, and she owns that.
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  So I don't know if that's like necessarily an insult.
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  OK. And the last three that I have
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  for you guys. So this is a little fashion news
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  and it's pretty random, but I thought it was interesting from
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  a brand perspective. So Oscar de la Renta has said
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  that they are done inviting media and influencers to its
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  shows, like to its fashion shows.
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  OK, so this came about because it.
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  Excerpt from Vanessa Friedman's Open Thread newsletter was
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  published on Twitter and people are going nuts about this clip.
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  So Vanessa is the fashion director and the chief fashion
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  critic at the New York Times. So she starts by saying that the
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  Oscar de la Renta show in Italy and Milan Fashion Week caught
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  her eye for 2025 pre spring collection.
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  And she said that it caught her eye because, quote, I didn't
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  even know it was happening until I saw some clips on TikTok.
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  Wait, what? Did I miss something?
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  And then she goes on to talk about how Oscar de la Renta used
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  to be a tent pole of the New York Fashion Week, but hasn't
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  had a show on the official fashion schedule since February
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  2019 Quotes. So a return to the runway in
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  whatever form would be kind of a big deal.
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  Maybe, I thought it is doing what Marc Jacobs who show is
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  July 1st, Ralph Lauren who just showed and Christopher John
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  Rogers do and picking its own timing?
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  If so, did I get banned and not realize it?
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  OK, so she called Alex Boland, who is the company's chief
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  executive, and she said sort of. But she's not alone.
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  Quote, I didn't much see the point of engaging with the
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  fashion press when they require a different show than what we
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  require to bring to our customers, Mr. Boland said.
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  I don't know that having the press advances our business
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  interest. What about glossy magazines?
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  I asked, quote, we don't really engage with magazines at this
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  point, Mr. Boland said. We don't have editors in to try
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  to convince them to pull clothes.
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  It's not our priority. We want to focus on our
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  customers and inspire them to buy.
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  What about influencers? No influencers either, he said,
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  unless they were genuine friends.
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  So yeah, I just, I thought that was so interesting just from a
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  branding perspective, the fact that Oscar de la Renta is going
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  very hardcore, like consumer first, customer first.
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  They're not super concerned it sounds like with having PR
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  relationships with media and influencers.
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  And I kind of love it even though I'm media myself.
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  It makes sense. Like even, you know, the point
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  of Fashion Week, of course, is to for like the traditionally is
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  for editors and stylists and stuff to find clothes they want
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  to pull. But ultimately it's all to sell
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  clothes to consumers, right? Like ultimately that's what it's
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  about. So you're pulling clothes to
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  feature in your magazines or you know, even buyers are pulling
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  clothes to feature in their department stores or whatever it
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  is. Like at the end of the day, it's
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  all about the customers. So they're kind of going like D
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  to C and cutting out the media essentially like influencers
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  press. It's really interesting and I
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  think it's a cool strategy and I don't even think it's really
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  that ballsy. Like I think it kind of just
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  makes sense in this day and age and I kind of love it.
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  I don't know. Let me know what you guys think
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  about that. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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  today. Thank you so much for listening
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  to mini scroll. Please manifest for me please.
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  I need all of the good vibes, the good manifestation vibes
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  right now. Things are really stressful and
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  it's so beyond just workload, like there's some really big
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  like adult problems that I'm having to deal with in my
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  business right now. And I really just need like all
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  the good juju right now. Like I just need someone to like
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  seriously bless me or something. I feel like someone's put a hex
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  on me this year. Anyways, I love you guys and I
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  will talk to you tomorrow. Bye.