A short month demands a few long reads, including an excellent profile of the new big-thinker at British Vogue. Pay attention to the paragraph that moves us through Enninful's evolution, from a model, "an instrument for telling fashion stories," to an editor who decides which stories are told.

The phrase I immediately associate with this month's topic is fall fashion shows. Maybe it's the alliteration. High fashion means high prices, which led me down a sidetrack on money and an analysis of our first decade after the world's leading economies spiraled.

But fashion held my mind all month, from the mundane activity of donating old suits to the quandary of deciding what to wear for my live nonfiction storytelling performances.

Clothes remain ubiquitous in our daily life, a foundational block in our hierarchy of needs, and what I read and watched and listened to helped move me past a lazy calculation: fashion = superficial beauty.

Fashion, like storytelling, thrives on generative forces, even when updating a classic or recreating an icon. Perhaps what makes fashion so powerful is how it elevates a simple need into triumphant self-actualization. Houndstooth or tulle can hide flaws, some even criminal, but so too can fabric help the wearer illuminate a complex issue, something as nuanced as a human life.

"There is grace to be found." 

Watch it twice.

For a more minor grace note, I want to share my latest (albeit off-theme) published poetry.