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"Invisible Beauty"

Behind the catwalk: how models are recruited and signed to exploitative contracts

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Natalie White
Feb 13, 2024
What is being done to protect models and hold agencies accountable?
"'Suffocating.' 'Exploitative.' 'Opaque,'" are some of the words used to describe the contracts models work under, Variety's Tatiana Siegel explained.
Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
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"Invisible Beauty"

Inside Bethann Hardison's fight to progress and diversify the fashion industry

by David Brancaccio
Feb 5, 2024
Model and agent Bethann Hardison has fought to overturn the culture of racism and discrimination that's pervaded much of the fashion world.
Courtesy Magnolia Pictures
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"The Store"

The problem of "sameness"

by Ellen Rolfes
Jan 31, 2024
Why department stores struggle to retain relevancy.
Can you tell whether this photo was taken inside of a JCPenney? A Dillard's? A Macy's?
Jeenah Moon/Getty Images
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"The Store"

Neiman Marcus was kinda culty — is that a bad thing?

by Tony Wagner
Jan 22, 2024
“Cultish” author Amanda Montell on the way we talk about work and how it’s changed.
Zipporah Films
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"The Store"

Testing out an AI-powered shopping assistant

by Ellen Rolfes
Jan 16, 2024
Retailers experiment with generative AI chatbots.
Seeking help from a generative AI chatbot to find a “sustainable cashmere sweater.”
Ellen Rolfes/Marketplace
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"The Store"

“Sell, sell, sell”: How Neiman Marcus' flagship store catered to the superrich

by Ellen Rolfes
Jan 8, 2024
We're watching "The Store" in January.
Zipporah Films
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"Trading Places"

The barrow boys

by David Brancaccio
Dec 11, 2023
When markets favored street smarts over fancy degrees.
Costermongers or street sellers, also known as "barrow boys," were often recruited to work as financial traders in London.
London School of Economics Library via Wikimedia Commons
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"Trading Places"

The nicer the car, the more likely the driver is to break the law

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Dec 8, 2023
There's a whole body of research that draws a correlation between wealth and self-interested behavior. We take a closer look.
"At this point, we've got dozens of different studies looking at different facets of behavior that tell us that the more wealth you have, the less attentive to other people you become," says Paul Piff, a professor of psychological science at the University of California, Irvine.
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"Trading Places"

The unfairness of capitalism

by Ellen Rolfes
Dec 4, 2023
We’re watching “Trading Places” in December.
A screenshot from the trailer of 1983's "Trading Places." From left to right: Don Ameche, Eddie Murphy and Ralph Bellamy.
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"Killers of the Flower Moon"

How the Osage are fighting to protect their language from extinction

by Ellen Rolfes
Nov 28, 2023
What may be less apparent after watching “Killers of the Flower Moon” is just how hard the Osage Nation has fought to protect and preserve its language.
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