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© Tiffanie Darke 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008185329
Ebook edition: February 2017 ISBN: 9780008185343
Version: 2017-02-07
The carapace of coolness is too much for Claire, also. She breaks the silence by saying that it’s not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. ‘Either our lives become stories, or there’s just no way to get through them.’
Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Contents
Introduction: Don’t Grow Up – It’s a Trick
3 Just Be Good to Me: How Business Became Sexy
4 When Noel Gallagher Went to Number 10
10 Never Complain, Never Explain
12 Alexander Is Dead, Long Live McQueen
14 Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels
15 Is It My Go on the iPad Now?
18 Will House Prices Ever Stop Going Up?
When I edited the Sunday Times Style magazine, the ‘Going Up, Going Down’ column became something of a cult read. Readers furiously measured themselves against it: were they still wearing one of the trends we would cruelly consign to ‘Going Down’? Were they already ordering the cocktail that we would crown in ‘Going Up’? A shortcut to everything that is in and out of favour, like the best journalism the column was born of instinct, wit and inside knowledge. Or just how ravaging our hangovers were on a Thursday morning.
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