This page is intended as a platform for faith, culture, fashion, style, freedom, and the erotic. It is also about the country, both in the sense of the rural and the pastoral as well as America.
Originally called The File, I started it in the Spring of 2021 with the following proclamation: “Over the past few years fashion media has contracted into a repressive focus on divisions of identity while becoming hostile to diversity of thought. The File rejects that orientation in favor of a tradition of radical thought originated by William Blake, who believed in creativity as a ‘Marriage of Heaven and Hell,’ and the Marquis de Sade, who encouraged those who believe in liberty to shun the dictates of ‘cold and shabby moralists.’ It establishes an exploration of fashion in agreement with George Packer’s assertion that ‘good writing never comes from the display of virtue.’”
To all those who have read and subscribed for such libertine pronouncements on art and aesthetics, I am thankful. Over time my interest has shifted away from a sole focus on fashion toward a greater exploration of spirituality, Christianity, and the nature of mystical experience. I have a background in luxury retail and e-commerce, and also studied writing and comparative literature at NYU and the New School.
