Cora Harrington
@CoraCHarrington
Fashion Historian, Researcher, and Published Author. Seen in NYT, WSJ, WWD, Vogue, Bloomberg, etc. Fashion is everywhere. Quick to block.
My first academic article is live!!! static1.squarespace.com/static/591218e…
I also wonder if this is an example of what people mean when they say AI “hallucinates.” It’s just pulling from any old thing and filling in the blanks, except “any old thing” is garbage.
One side effect of AI pulling from Google and Amazon and Pinterest and whatever else it can grab, is that it doesn’t get the clothes right. It applies modern aesthetics to the past. It’s funny how dress has become one of the biggest AI tells because of an excess of internet slop.
This was a custom set from earlier this year, using one of my favourite French laces, full of honeycomb and bee motifs. Trimmed with jet silk and the sweetest diamanté bee charms 🐝
Europeans used to think cotton came from an animal, specifically a “vegetable lamb” that was a plant-animal hybrid.
share your favorite piece of medieval lore
I love when I say, “People should read more books,” and someone excitedly interjects that not all books are reliable and some are written by AI. Well yes, that’s why you have to evaluate an author’s credibility. That part is implied.
Good 1 sentence horror
my mom has a secret beef w our orthodontist bc she thinks he made the smiles of all our town’s children too similar
Everytime I see this, I am struck all over again by how atrocious that costume is.
Jessie Murph performs “1965” on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’
Give me an example of the best anyone has ever looked in a movie
Give me an example of the best anyone has ever looked in a movie
It's likely a leftover from running my own business but I write all my emails like 1) I don't expect whoever I'm writing to remember me or when I met them and 2) whoever I'm writing will want to know why I'm writing within the first ten seconds because they're busy.