The Unreliable Narrator of Our Lives
We all love a good storyteller. Watching your favorite movie or reading your favorite book, the first-person perspective from which the viewer learns about the…
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Is That Scarf Really “Scandinavian?”
A fashion influencer on TikTok posted a white woman in a blouse, a long draping skirt and a long shawl-like scarf. She then asked, “What…
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In “Yellowjackets,” Girlhood Kills
A New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team from 1969 has just had their big win and now, they’re going to Nationals in Seattle! These…
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Up and Down the High Fashion Ladder
High fashion houses have been many things — iconic, avant-garde, controversial, and influential. While the clothing itself goes through the ebbs and flows of change,…
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Your “Outie” Loves a Good Marketing Plan
Please enjoy all parts of this article equally. “Severance,” created by Ben Stiller, starring Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro and Zach Cherry, is essentially…
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A Recap of the 2024 Fashion Awards
You have the Oscar’s, the Grammy’s, the Tony’s and then you have … the Fashion Awards. Hosted by the British Fashion Council (BFC), the Fashion…
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Youth is novel, Experience is enduring
College is not, in fact, the best years of your life. Those are still to come. For so many of us, “the best years of…
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“Overdressed” Isn’t a Real Thing
You and your friends have been planning to go out to a fun little dinner and you’ve been excited for weeks. The day before, though,…
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It’s Time to Ditch the Suit and Tie.
You’re scrolling on Twitter, looking through all the looks from the most recent Met Gala. They’re gorgeous, and you can’t believe your eyes. One of…
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The Art of Annotating
Using a permanent black pen to write in a new, clean, crisp book!? Now that’s just blasphemy. Or … is it? What if we told…
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Reading is Cool Again … Apparently?
The internet has somehow simultaneously revived and complicated our love for reading. Once upon a time, if you told someone your favorite hobby was reading,…
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The Subversive Subcultures of Alternative Fashion
Conforming. What is that, exactly? Often, society sets an unspoken standard for us — a template we should follow when it comes to our behavior…
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California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities
On Monday, Oct. 5, Governor Gavin Newsom placed a ban on legacy admissions — the practice of giving admissions preference to relatives of alumni.
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That was me, too
“Yeah, I was such an awkward teen — I mean, look at what I was wearing in that picture!” “I want to travel back in…
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Creating Our Life Archives
In the minds of each of the 8 million people living on this Earth, there lies a story and a unique set of memories that…
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Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2024 Self-Improvement Section Opener: Sarah Strent
When do you know if something is a calling? For Sarah Strent, a fourth-year early childhood and elementary education student, the answer came in the…
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Your Signature Makeup Archetype — The Results
VALLEY recently explored “The Makeup Archetype Quiz” which showed us eight makeup archetypes: natural, elegant, gamine, ingenue, classic, modern, dramatic and romantic. This quiz was…
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What’s your signature makeup archetype? — A Quiz
Makeup means something different to everyone. To some, it’s a tool for self-expression, being capable of transforming our appearance and enhancing our confidence. To others,…
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A Timeline of Boeing’s Controversies This Year
Imagine thinking that you’re going to go about your day perfectly normally, that nothing could happen that would change the monotony of your life. So…
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The Kate Middleton Saga — A Lesson?
A couple of weeks ago, the internet experienced an overwhelming amount of trending memes and inside jokes based on current news. Something that people noticed…
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