JOSHUA GLASS (@joshualanceglass)
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Founder & Editor-in-Chief, @family_style + @t_a_k_e_a_w_a_y
In a blink it’s been one year on Barrow Street and four months with our best friend/captor… both are still a work in progress but we’re getting there!
The girls were giving it at the first Club @t_a_k_e_a_w_a_y ! Much love to @hm for turning our silly little idea into a dream dance party—and to the entire @family_style team for following me on the insane journey of launching a second magazine. I always wanted to have a DJ booth in the back of a kitchen. Thank god it was at @parcellewine. x
Fifty years ago, my mother wrote a series of letters to her former English teacher, an American G.I. serving in Vietnam. She, her seven living siblings (two had already passed), and her parents had fled their hometown of Da Nang via cargo plane out of Saigon and were living in refugee tents in Guam. They were in need of not only food, clothing, and funds but sponsorship, and were prepared to separate if they needed to in order to escape. This past weekend, three generations of Nguyens visited Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the farm town on Cherokee land where the G.I., two churches, and several local businessmen formed an unprecedented civil committee to get all 10 to America together and at once. We visited the first house that the Nguyens settled in, where they happily packed themselves into 2 small rooms, the convenience store my grandfather worked at as a janitor because his job as a professor of French was no longer applicable, the church my aunt Thuy baby sat at three times a week, and the college my uncle Van Linh assisted a carpenter. Except for my mom, who went to work at Walmart, no one spoke English but they instantly ingrained themselves into Tahlequah. Though many are no longer with us—the soldier, our grandparents, the two pastors—we met their loves ones and others in Tahlequah who remembered us. We already knew my family’s lives dramatically improved when they got to America, of course, but we learned that so did those of the community that they came to, too. It breaks my heart today to see what the Trump administration and ICE are doing to families just like mine. Hard working, good people who are just seeking a better life than the one they left. America is nothing without immigrants like the Nguyens, people that come here with nothing yet give us their everything. People who repeat, redo, and relearn just to fit in, and then pay it all back when they can. I am so honored to be a small part of this story and so proud to be a child of immigrants.
I’m an office person who never thought I’d have an office! Earlier this month Family Style moved out of our very first—a problematic Leonard Street loft—and down the block to our second space on Lispenard. In spite of the floods...yes, plural... bugs and stolen deliveries, I can’t express how important Leonard Street was to us and to me. It was hard to leave, but we never could have gotten in and out (walk-up to an elevator to a walk-up, imagine?!) without @roadwaymoving, who took care of all the crazy details in the midst of making three magazines and planning a handful of events. Right after, it was back to business as usual for all of us, Leo, too. #roadwaymoving
Most serene evening under the cherry blossoms of To-ji temple in Kyoto with Dior. MG’s Fall collection features reworked textiles Christian Dior made here 75 years ago (with the same weaver!). What a treat. 🌸 @dior #mariagraziachiuri
Life is brutal, exquisite @commedesgarcons
Thank you Theaster and the entire Prada team for the most delicious time in Abu Dhabi and the chicest reason to skip out on NYFW. @prada @theastergates #PradaMode