This is my favourite piece of yours so far, Emma. I have always defended beauty, in all its forms, and I could never explain it as eloquently as you have. I feel so, so, so validated. The world needs beauty. We can't survive without beauty.
🎆🥹 L’Occitane levels in the coolest lobby of the online world!!! & I’m beyond grateful to Emma for inviting me into this space in articulating a way of seeing beauty not as polished tools of desire, but rather a refinement in the unexpected, human, experiential, moments that can better inform the navigation of all our expectations!!!!
So much of what we understand as beautiful has been programmed into us. We inherit social expectations that quietly tell us what we should want, how we should look, and even feel and the best way to beautify ourselves is to deviate and form our own values in rethinking the how o beauty!!! The experiences that stay with me are rarely the ones that simply reproduce what I already know and a billion fireworks on the moon for this feature to my very own André Balazs Of Sublime on substack :))🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆💝
Against smoothness always....give me friction and character every time. ;) I think this is why I loved Kimpton back before IHG - it literally gave you "whimsy" not perfection
I love this final thought: “This is why beauty is also an ethical choice – by creating beautiful things and atmospheres, that attention compounds and goes on to create even more beauty in the world.”
I think this philosophy can actually go beyond hospitality and into a personal way of being - kindness, care, attention to detail and bringing beauty into the world can have a ripple effect of positive change.
This is my favourite piece of yours so far, Emma. I have always defended beauty, in all its forms, and I could never explain it as eloquently as you have. I feel so, so, so validated. The world needs beauty. We can't survive without beauty.
Thank you sooo much Sanchita!! Without beauty there's nothing and I'm so glad to vouch for it with you!
🎆🥹 L’Occitane levels in the coolest lobby of the online world!!! & I’m beyond grateful to Emma for inviting me into this space in articulating a way of seeing beauty not as polished tools of desire, but rather a refinement in the unexpected, human, experiential, moments that can better inform the navigation of all our expectations!!!!
So much of what we understand as beautiful has been programmed into us. We inherit social expectations that quietly tell us what we should want, how we should look, and even feel and the best way to beautify ourselves is to deviate and form our own values in rethinking the how o beauty!!! The experiences that stay with me are rarely the ones that simply reproduce what I already know and a billion fireworks on the moon for this feature to my very own André Balazs Of Sublime on substack :))🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆💝
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!! thank you for sharing your wisdom Vic!! Stack friends >>> all else
Just excellent!
Thank you so much Steven!!!
Against smoothness always....give me friction and character every time. ;) I think this is why I loved Kimpton back before IHG - it literally gave you "whimsy" not perfection
Yesss! So sad when whimsy gets diluted in order to make it scalable, and then the whimsy just disappears
Wonderful piece! Such a good read.
Thank you so much for reading!
Grain is goooooood!
Grain is essentialllll!!!
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I love this final thought: “This is why beauty is also an ethical choice – by creating beautiful things and atmospheres, that attention compounds and goes on to create even more beauty in the world.”
I think this philosophy can actually go beyond hospitality and into a personal way of being - kindness, care, attention to detail and bringing beauty into the world can have a ripple effect of positive change.
Absolutely Rebecca! This is what I definitely try to live by in my personal life 🤍
Love this. What I got from the conversation is that developing taste really comes from living!! Not just scrolling
Thank you so much!!! And truly, all good things come from presence and connectedness to real life 🧎🏼♀️➡️
The way I LOVED reading this piece!!! Also, excited that you hit 400+ subs 🥹 Congratulations, Emma!
Thank you so much for being here queen!!!! It means so much
That DJ set 👀
Coming uppp!