Pro-Anna: Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica is the final nail in Instagram’s coffin
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London is unusually warm in mid-October, the undercroft at Southbank a sea of bare-chested skaters in various forms of undress practising flips, observing peers perfect their technique. There’s an air of indifference to their every motion, as if upon rolling into the cement park, they’ve entered a glass cage, all for the amusement of an audience they cannot see but know for a fact is watching, transfixed by the sweat on their skin, their mere scent floating in the air and capturing the imagination of everyone that happens to walk past. It’s a much quieter evening than the previous two to three weeks, during which time the city existed in a vacuum of delirious drinking and excessive sleep deprivation in the avalanche of frieze, the BFI film festival and fashion week. The sensory overload and subsequent depletion of the senses were now followed by a tranquil descent to rest, silence.
Pro-Anna: Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica is the final nail in Instagram’s coffin
Pro-Anna: Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica is the…
Pro-Anna: Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica is the final nail in Instagram’s coffin
London is unusually warm in mid-October, the undercroft at Southbank a sea of bare-chested skaters in various forms of undress practising flips, observing peers perfect their technique. There’s an air of indifference to their every motion, as if upon rolling into the cement park, they’ve entered a glass cage, all for the amusement of an audience they cannot see but know for a fact is watching, transfixed by the sweat on their skin, their mere scent floating in the air and capturing the imagination of everyone that happens to walk past. It’s a much quieter evening than the previous two to three weeks, during which time the city existed in a vacuum of delirious drinking and excessive sleep deprivation in the avalanche of frieze, the BFI film festival and fashion week. The sensory overload and subsequent depletion of the senses were now followed by a tranquil descent to rest, silence.