Raquel Laneri
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
Writer, editor, sometime violist. Fashion journalism at Parsons.
Garish colors, tacky lace, flamboyant muscle tees and hairy trompe l'oeil bodysuits ... why is fashion so hideous right now, and is there a way to dress with dignity as the world around us collapses? raquellaneri.substack.com/p/ugly-cloth...
Ugly clothes for ugly times
Why fashion is so hideous right now. Plus: Thank goodness for Yohji Yamamoto and my favorite Spring 2026 collections!
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November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Garish colors, tacky lace, flamboyant muscle tees and hairy trompe l'oeil bodysuits ... why is fashion so hideous right now, and is there a way to dress with dignity as the world around us collapses? raquellaneri.substack.com/p/ugly-cloth...
I have been thinking about how pointless getting dressed & thinking about clothes feels right now, with *gestures wildly* ALL THIS. But then I saw this painting of an 80s babe wearing a kitschy sweater and ... wrote this raquellaneri.substack.com/p/does-fashi...
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I have been thinking about how pointless getting dressed & thinking about clothes feels right now, with *gestures wildly* ALL THIS. But then I saw this painting of an 80s babe wearing a kitschy sweater and ... wrote this raquellaneri.substack.com/p/does-fashi...
Reposted by Raquel Laneri
Robert Redford, 1936-2025
📷 John Dominus, 1969
📷 John Dominus, 1969
September 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Robert Redford, 1936-2025
📷 John Dominus, 1969
📷 John Dominus, 1969
NO ONE wore a coat like Robert Redford!
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
NO ONE wore a coat like Robert Redford!
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Has anyone ever worn a movie costume better than Robert Redford in his navy pea coat in Three Days of the Condor?
September 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Has anyone ever worn a movie costume better than Robert Redford in his navy pea coat in Three Days of the Condor?
“It’s not just about the cake,” she says. “A good partner doesn’t take a special moment and make you look stupid.” www.thecut.com/article/groo...
The Grooms Smashing Wedding Cake in Their Brides’ Faces
When the happiest day of your life takes a violent turn.
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August 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“It’s not just about the cake,” she says. “A good partner doesn’t take a special moment and make you look stupid.” www.thecut.com/article/groo...
This biography of Amelia Earhart was complex, scintillating and delicious. Loved it!
he Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made and America Icon in a fine story by
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
in the New York Post
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- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
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nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
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in the New York Post
@newyorkpost.bsky.social
- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
The high-flying life, and love of ‘it’ girl adventurer Amelia Earhart
As Laurie Gwen Shapiro reveals in a new biography, there’s a lot about her that we don’t know.
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July 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This biography of Amelia Earhart was complex, scintillating and delicious. Loved it!
Reposted by Raquel Laneri
he Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made and America Icon in a fine story by
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
in the New York Post
@newyorkpost.bsky.social
- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
in the New York Post
@newyorkpost.bsky.social
- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
The high-flying life, and love of ‘it’ girl adventurer Amelia Earhart
As Laurie Gwen Shapiro reveals in a new biography, there’s a lot about her that we don’t know.
nypost.com
July 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
he Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made and America Icon in a fine story by
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
in the New York Post
@newyorkpost.bsky.social
- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
in the New York Post
@newyorkpost.bsky.social
- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
Reposted by Raquel Laneri
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
June 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
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There are so many ways in which Edmund White was remarkable. I want to point out two. The first is that he wrote about sex more, and more avidly and explicitly, than any other major gay writer. It was core to his identity. He left nothing out. He dared you to flinch at it. (I flinched many times.) >
June 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
There are so many ways in which Edmund White was remarkable. I want to point out two. The first is that he wrote about sex more, and more avidly and explicitly, than any other major gay writer. It was core to his identity. He left nothing out. He dared you to flinch at it. (I flinched many times.) >
Fascinating, probing, beautifully written piece (I did not know that the term "closet" came from Confidential Magazine!) that also has new photos by THE GREAT 93-year-old(!!) legend Duane Michals?!?!?!?!?!!!!
Okay. Let's try this again.
Here's a piece I wrote about Pee-wee Herman, the history and weaponization of the celebrity closet, and how cultural representations of closeted characters have changed over decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...
Here's a piece I wrote about Pee-wee Herman, the history and weaponization of the celebrity closet, and how cultural representations of closeted characters have changed over decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...
Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In?
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May 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Fascinating, probing, beautifully written piece (I did not know that the term "closet" came from Confidential Magazine!) that also has new photos by THE GREAT 93-year-old(!!) legend Duane Michals?!?!?!?!?!!!!
I'm grading papers and I need some music recs!!! Bach OBVIOUSLY is best for writing, but feel like it's not hitting the spot right now!
May 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I'm grading papers and I need some music recs!!! Bach OBVIOUSLY is best for writing, but feel like it's not hitting the spot right now!
RIP Pope Francis, the public servant who drove Vatican tailors crazy with his 'papal athleisure' (Plus: "The Two Popes" costumes and the history of papal vestments) raquellaneri.substack.com/p/rip-pope-f...
RIP Pope Francis, the public servant who drove Vatican tailors crazy with his 'papal athleisure'
“I don’t exclude the possibility that in the evening he just puts [his cassock] to wash, and wears it again the next morning."
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April 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RIP Pope Francis, the public servant who drove Vatican tailors crazy with his 'papal athleisure' (Plus: "The Two Popes" costumes and the history of papal vestments) raquellaneri.substack.com/p/rip-pope-f...
Interesting article ... have been thinking a lot about language & identity as I am attempting to raise my child bilingual ... and also allowing myself to speak Spanish "imperfectly" (whatever that even means) www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/24/p...
For New York Puerto Ricans, Language Matters, But Identity Runs Deeper
While Spanish serves as a link to their roots, mastering the language is not the sole determinant of New York Puerto Ricans' sense of belonging to Puerto Rican culture, history, and traditions.
www.thecity.nyc
March 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Interesting article ... have been thinking a lot about language & identity as I am attempting to raise my child bilingual ... and also allowing myself to speak Spanish "imperfectly" (whatever that even means) www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/24/p...
THE GATES, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental public art project in Central Park, opened 20 years ago. These two superfans obsessively documented the installation as it morphed and changed through its 16-day run. I talked with them about it: raquellaneri.substack.com/p/i-have-bee...
"I have been sitting on these images almost like it's a private affair of my heart"
Two photographers reflect on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental Central Park installation "The Gates," 20 years later.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
THE GATES, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental public art project in Central Park, opened 20 years ago. These two superfans obsessively documented the installation as it morphed and changed through its 16-day run. I talked with them about it: raquellaneri.substack.com/p/i-have-bee...
Daughter is very glad "the cat movie" aka FLOW won. (I am as well!)
March 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Daughter is very glad "the cat movie" aka FLOW won. (I am as well!)
This whole post is *chef’s kiss* but I nearly spit my drink out when I read “As a No Sabo Kid myself”! As the daughter of a Cuban mother who grew up speaking Spanglish … how have I never heard this? Brilliant - gonna start using all the time now. Also now I kinda want to see this movie? Lol
I spent over two hours watching 'Emilia Pérez,' time I will never get back, so I wrote down all my thoughts about the film. Thank you as always for your support! From penis to vagina! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/all-my-tho...
All My Thoughts on 'Emilia Pérez'
If you even care
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February 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This whole post is *chef’s kiss* but I nearly spit my drink out when I read “As a No Sabo Kid myself”! As the daughter of a Cuban mother who grew up speaking Spanglish … how have I never heard this? Brilliant - gonna start using all the time now. Also now I kinda want to see this movie? Lol
Wrote about Marianne Faithfull - singer, poet, sage, survivor and style icon who imbued everything she wore and touched with her "beautiful, wretched excess"
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Marianne Faithfull's beautiful, wretched excess
RIP to the singer, poet, sage, survivor, and (of course) style icon who lived a thousand lives with uncompromising flair. Plus: the women who made the Rolling Stones
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February 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Wrote about Marianne Faithfull - singer, poet, sage, survivor and style icon who imbued everything she wore and touched with her "beautiful, wretched excess"
raquellaneri.substack.com/p/marianne-f...
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Ohhh! One of my greatest inspirations ... her music, her writing, her style, her honesty, her incredible strength, her beauty ... RIP, my queen!!!
January 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ohhh! One of my greatest inspirations ... her music, her writing, her style, her honesty, her incredible strength, her beauty ... RIP, my queen!!!
It also seemed somehow simpler, pettier than that. What do these clothes say? I’m pretty. I’m popular. I’m rich. I’m a movie star (like Audrey Hepburn), a celebrity, and I have my pick of the finest clothes in the world.
On the fashions at the inauguration
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On the fashions at the inauguration
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The emptiness of Ivanka Trump's green Dior suit
Class rage, nostalgia, the cruel fantasy of haute couture, and the problem of writing about politics and fashion.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It also seemed somehow simpler, pettier than that. What do these clothes say? I’m pretty. I’m popular. I’m rich. I’m a movie star (like Audrey Hepburn), a celebrity, and I have my pick of the finest clothes in the world.
On the fashions at the inauguration
raquellaneri.substack.com/p/it-creates...
On the fashions at the inauguration
raquellaneri.substack.com/p/it-creates...
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We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
January 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
God help me I wrote about the fashions of the inauguration
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"It creates class feeling in a way no sables could"
On Ivanka Trump's green Dior suit and the emptiness of writing about politics and fashion
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January 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
God help me I wrote about the fashions of the inauguration
raquellaneri.substack.com/p/it-creates...
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This is beautiful www.vulture.com/article/mary...
January 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is beautiful www.vulture.com/article/mary...
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"I like Lays — original style — potato chips with the chicken sandwich. The chips are optional with the other sandwiches.”
In 2009, @raquellaneri.bsky.social got the scoop on David Lynch's top-five sandwiches. Unsurprisingly, it's delightful. substack.com/home/post/p-...
David Lynch's top five sandwiches
RIP to a legend: a visionary filmmaker who also gave me the weirdest and most delightful interview of my career.
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January 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"I like Lays — original style — potato chips with the chicken sandwich. The chips are optional with the other sandwiches.”
As someone who binged the first two seasons of TWIN PEAKS and nearly lost my mind: listen to Mark!
For filmheads who are planning a full David Lynch rewatch--not the shorts, but the ten features plus the two runs of Twin Peaks: I humbly suggest taking, like, a year to do this. His work, I think, does not benefit from crammed binging. More heresy: I don't think chronologically is the way to go.
January 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As someone who binged the first two seasons of TWIN PEAKS and nearly lost my mind: listen to Mark!