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Their wordstaste gets a bad rap sometimes as something that can be pretentious or elitist, but I think we all have taste.
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Fashion is for saying something about yourself, not for conforming to a data-driven standard.
Their wordsdistorting the purpose of fashion, which is actually to communicate something about yourself, not to conform to some data-driven standard.
Their wordsMy feeling is that algorithmic feeds and recommendations have kind of guided us into conforming to each other and kind of having this homogenization of culture where we all accept the average of what everyone's doing.
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