Nymphet Alumni

Nymphet Alumni

Nymphet Alumni is a podcast dedicated to the study of fashion and culture. www.nymphetalumni.com

  1. hace 2 h

    Ep. 167: Situational Awareness | Study Break

    In this edition of Study Break, we discuss the questionable decisions behind the scenes of the Possession remake, the historical accuracy cottage industry reactivated by the release of The Odyssey, the latest in infidelity surveillance via Jay Guapo, and new releases from Adela, Tyla, and KATSEYE. We also highlight a recent cornucopia of Euroweird excellence from the Depardieu family’s blissful film festival outing to the fabulous brainrot opera debut of Beata Mona-Lisa, Greta Thunberg’s perplexingly buxom sister— plus we react to fashion announcements including Marine Serre’s bankruptcy and the upcoming John Galliano–themed Met Gala.Links: Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner on the set of the Possession remake in New Jersey Julie Depardieu and Philippe Katerine pose with their 2 sons Billy and Alfred at the Monte Carlo Television Festival (Alexi’s viral QRT) Billy Blanchard at Jean-Paul Gaultier F/W 2026 Couture via Lyas “EXCLUSIVE: Marine Serre Seeks Investor Amid Financial Restructuring” in WWD The Met Announces the Spring 2027 Costume Institute Exhibition, John Galliano: Horizons “John Galliano Returns to Fashion Via a Creative Partnership with Zara” in Vogue “An Uncomplicated Man” (review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey) by Emily Wilson in The London Review of Books Millie Bobby Brown responds to bad wig accusations on BBC Radio 1 @chthonicthorn on TikTok (Hellenistic practicioner?) “Greta Thunberg’s Sister Beata Mona-Lisa Does the Splits” by Billy Parker in Interview Beata Mona-Lisa on Instagram Pianist Yuja Wang Nymphet Alumni Ep. 114: Grisch “The Folk Singer Linda Perhacs Is Found and Is Safe, Authorities Confirm” in The New York Times Tyla - “THAT GIRL” (Official Music Video) Nymphet Alumni Ep. 147: Cherry Emoji Dark Feminine Tyla in custom Phoebe Pendergast polka dot hair clip at Disney with Kai Cenat “Valley of the Marc Jacobs Dolls” by Carwyn McIntyre in ToBe “The Surreal, Sublime Worlds of Szilveszter Makó” by Lauren Jackson in The New York Times Adam Green’s Aladdin - Full Movie (Official) on YouTube KATSEYE (캣츠아이) - “Animal” (Official Music Video) KATSEYE EP 3 ‘WILD’ (Wild heart ver.) teaser images on Instagram ADÉLA - “Ain’t In LA” (Official Music Video) Gabbriette in custom Matières Fécales bridal Andrea Mauri @babedrea33 on Instagram “Married elite NYC lawyer, 45, is caught red-handed with underling, 29, in passionate Central Park rendezvous” in The Daily Mail “How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid low” in The Financial Times This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nymphetalumni.com/subscribe

    Ep. 167: Situational Awareness | Study Break
  2. 2 jul

    Ep. 163: The Man and The Mirror

    In this solo minisode, Sam enters the wilderness of mirrors to unpack Michael Jackson: child star, King of Pop, fairy-tale monster, walking logo, and one of the strangest cultural phenomena of the 20th century. Using Margo Jefferson, Wendy Lesser, Mark Fisher, Foucault, Bakhtin, Peter Pan, The Little Prince, Shirley Temple, Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Fosse, P.T. Barnum, Neverland Ranch, pork pie hats, patent leather shoes, and white spats, Sam pursues Michael as a figure of inversion: the child who was an adult, the adult who became a child, the Black man who became white, the man who became a woman, the innocent who became the guilty. Along the way, she considers the glamour and horror of child stardom, the maternal diva archive, the carnivalesque body, the freakshow of Wacko Jacko, and why Michael’s legacy remains endlessly unresolved. Stargirl’s 100th episode, we love you Emma On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson On Michael Jackson, with Shannon Taggart by Weird Studies The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, edited by Mark Fisher His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art by Wendy Lesser Moonwalk: A Memoir by Michael Jackson The Autobiography of PT Barnum by PT Barnum Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin r/LeavingNeverlandHBO My Family, The Jacksons by Katherine Jackson Michael Jackson’s Interview in Gold Girl Magazine, 2002 Michael Jackson - Thriller (Original) Who’s Loving You - The Jackson 5 on The Ed Sullivan Show Interview with Suzanne de Passe, Motown Costume Designer Human Nature, Wembley ‘88 - Michael Jackson Michael Jackson’s This Is It Sylvester Stallone on Michael Jackson Bob Fosse, The Little Prince, and Michael Jackson The Little Prince MJ Productions’s Letter to The Little Prince Marianne Williamson officiates Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding to Larry Fortensky Elizabeth Taylor surprises Michael Jackson with an elephant Abnormals, Freaks, and Michael Jackson: Foucault, Baldwin the Truth of the Grotesque by Brad Elliott Stone Nymphet Alumni’s Ep. 157: American Freakshow This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nymphetalumni.com/subscribe

    Ep. 163: The Man and The Mirror
  3. 24 jun

    Ep. 162: Crayola Casual

    In this episode, we kick off the summer by denominating a colorful attitude toward dress manifesting bicoastally. Epitomized by brands like Emily Dawn Long, Brooke Callahan, and Cleo Camp, Crayola Casual is the funky counterpart to freaky minimalism— accessory agnostic, anti-synthetic, built around hot saturated colors and the art of the easy-on easy-off. We review this aesthetic’s historical antecedents, from fluid disco formalwear of the 70s (Halston, Stephen Burrows) to globalist chic sportswear of the 80s (Esprit, United Colors of Benetton). We also discuss Downtown New York’s Maryam Nassir Zadeh as the missing link, classics of rainbow urbanism including Sesame Street and the Vignelli Subway Map, our predictions for an aerobics renaissance, and the creative exuberance of a season of parades, pop-ups, and pennants. Links: Image board Cleo Camp Brooke Callahan Emily Dawn Long Rummage Stretch “Vintage Sportswear Will Crush Your Alo Yoga Sets” by Liana Satenstein for Neverworns Allegra Samsen on Instagram Ventriloquist Sophie Becker for Paloma Wool “The Accidental Trendsetter” by Emilia Petrarca in The New York Times (Emily Dawn Long profile) “The Sisterhood of the Unraveling Pants” by Sarah Shapiro in Puck (on the rise of the easy pant) “The Sexy Sincerity of Maryam Nassir Zadeh” by Rachel Tashjian in Harper’s Bazaar “How Does Maryam Nassir Zadeh Stay in Business?” by Madeline Leung Coleman in The Cut “1970–1979” from FIT’s Fashion History Timeline “A 1970s Fashion History Lesson: Disco, Designer Denim, and the Liberated Woman” by Lilah Ramzi in Vogue “The Halstonettes” by The Museum at FIT from the 2015 exhibit Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s “Stephen Burrows, the CFDA’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Winner, in the Words of 7 of His Closest Collaborators” by Laird Borrelli-Persson in Vogue “The Radical History of Sesame Street” by Figgy Guyver in Frieze “The Quintessential Urban Design of Sesame Street” by Anna Kodé in The New York Times “Towards a Better Way: The “Vignelli” Map at 50” (Digital Exhibit) – New York Transit Museum Supergraphic Ultramodern – Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute “The rise and fall of Esprit, San Francisco’s coolest clothing brand” by Joshua Bote in SFGATE “opening ceremony’s founders on how esprit changed fashion (and the world)” – i-D “Esprit’s Brand Books” by Jill Singer in Sight Unseen (on Esprit: The Comprehensive Design Principle from 1989) “From Plain Jane to Esprit: The Making of a California Icon” by Bertrand Pellegrin “Benetton: Celebrating a Colorful History” by Amanda Kaiser in WWD “History” – Gap, Inc. “Khaki Swing” – 1998 Gap Commercial on YouTube Something Wild (1986) dir. Jonathan Demme – Official Trailer Excerpt from Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks “Everything You Need to Know About the Battle of Versailles on the 50th Anniversary of the Event” by Laird Borrelli-Persson in Vogue “Fashion” - The 1973 World Book Year Book “Yanks Pull Off Paris Fashion Heist” by Eugenia Sheppard in The Los Angeles Times Big Bad Wolf workout class on TikTok Aerobics by Kenneth H. Cooper エアロピクルス|Aeropickles on YouTube “1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening” on YouTube Audrey Hobert live performances: trenchcoat reveal, mini trampoline Audrey Hobert x Fishwife Tinned Fish Bundle “Forget Euro Summer. Brands Are Having a Wet, Hot American Summer” by Madeleine Schulz in Vogue (pop-up economy write-up) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nymphetalumni.com/subscribe

    Ep. 162: Crayola Casual
  4. 17 jun

    Ep. 161: The Paranoid Style w/ Anika Jade Levy

    In this episode, Sam is joined by friend of the pod Anika Jade Levy, author of Flat Earth and founding editor of Forever Magazine, for a sprawling investigation into the paranoid spirit of the United States of America. Beginning with the America’s founding fantasy of paradise, Anika and Sam trace how the country’s utopian dream soured into a national aesthetic of suspicion: from Puritan invisible enemies and the feminized conspiracy of the Salem Witch Trials, to the pastoral terror of data centers humming in the American wilderness, to cyberpunk stealthwear, urban camouflage, hollow earths, Atlantis, visions of a lost world, and much, much more. Drawing from Leo Marx, Richard Hofstadter, Adam Curtis, Cotton Mather, Anette Kolodny, Silvia Federici, and Anika’s own novel, the girls move through history, politics, media, and fashion to uncover what conspiracy reveals about American self-invention. Links: Anika’s Instagram Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy Forever Magazine Agens Denis’s A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfil The Machine in the Garden by Leo Marx The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter The Lay of the Land by Annette Kolodny Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici The Significance of the Frontier in American History by Fredrick Jackson Turner Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders CV Dazzle Balenciaga Panic of 2022 Lotta Volkova Conspiracy Data Center Hum on TikTok Mr. Bean/Princess Diana Reel The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis MAGA as Fan Fiction by Gideon Jacobs Player One and Main Character by Gideon Jacobs New Models: The Online Marketplace of Ideas with Joshua Citarella The Gurdjieff Movements The New Age Bible by Sheila Heiti This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nymphetalumni.com/subscribe

    Ep. 161: The Paranoid Style w/ Anika Jade Levy
  5. 13 may

    Ep. 157: American Freakshow | Study Break

    In this edition of Study Break, we discuss the less-than-triumphant return of Euphoria and Sam Levinson’s pivot to everythingsplotation Western, Michael Jackson’s new hagiography and the grotesque legacy that transcends it, and recent fashioncore highlights from the literalism of the Met Gala to the nostalgia of The Devil Wears Prada 2. We also discuss the Substack truth nuke that rocked the indie music scene, Olivia Rodrigo’s coquette comeback, The Drama’s fresh take on the tribulations of female adolescence, and more. Links: Suga Free the Pimp on Instagram Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim “Why Is Everything So Ugly?” in Issue 44 of n+1 “Fashion Is Not Art (And That’s OK)” by Valerie Steele in Someone Else “See Every Look from the Met Gala 2026 Red Carpet” in Vogue Hudson Williams MUA Aika Flores Pinterest board leak Hudson Williams heading home at 7am following the Met Gala after party “Abnormals, Freaks, and Michael Jackson: Foucault, Baldwin, and the Truth of the Grotesque” by Brad Elliott Stone “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood (Here Be Dragons)” by James Baldwin, originally published in Playboy, January 1985 Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin Michael Jackson describes his first sexual encounter with Tatum O’Neal (2003) Telephone Stories: The Trials of Michael Jackson on Spotify On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson “Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour on Power, Fashion, and Acting the Part” (April 2026 cover story) by Chloe Malle in Vogue Synopsis: Innocence by Kaija Saariaho from the Metropolitan Opera Olivia Rodrigo – drop dead (Official Music Video) Olivia Rodrigo – begged (Live) on Saturday Night Live “Fake Fans” by Eliza McLamb in words from eliza on Substack Nancy Pelosi Endorses Jack Schlossberg For Congress Acquired Style x Swan Beauty Viral Bachelorette Party This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nymphetalumni.com/subscribe

    Ep. 157: American Freakshow | Study Break

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