Since her breakout role in Netflix's 2017 series 13 Reasons Why, Dorfman has moved behind the camera, directing Cole Sprouse, Alexandra Daddario, and Miles Gutierrez-Riley in I Wish You All the Best. She already has her sophomore film lined up with an adaptation of Mariko Tamaki's Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. This year, she celebrated the launch of her queer- and trans-forward lifestyle platform Club Curran, as well as her podcast 'My First Time.'
WHAT’S IN:
- The 90-minute movie because three hours is... too long
- Cooking at home for your friends and intimate gatherings
- Saying no and letting go of projects that are no longer fulfilling you or are taking up too much of your time
- Collaborating with friends and self-producing. Not relying exclusively on archaic systems to make successful art
WHAT’S OUT:
- Weddings—they're expensive and time-consuming, leaving everybody emotionally hungover. Elopements are so much chicer and more intimate!
- Time management. It's okay to just take longer than expected and lean into what feels good
- Competition
- TikTok shopping. Let's go to a store, or support smaller businesses on their own e-commerce sites!
The London-based painter and pop musician has developed a reputation for going her own way. Prior to the release of her independent EP and a slew of solo exhibitions in the last few years, Wood rejected offers from international gallerist Gagosian and producer Mark Ronson.
WHAT'S IN:
- Unbearable honesty on the first date
- Bonnets and bonnet-adjacent hats
- Stainless steel
- Accepting regretful tattoos
- Paying cash
WHAT'S OUT:
- Calling oneself a nutritionist when you really just have an eating disorder
- Podcast ads
- all lower-case song titles
- Group texts of more than three people
- Sharing plates
The certified Renaissance woman has made her name as a musician, art advisor, curator, and founder of arts organizations ArtLeadHER and Art Genesis. In 2024, she's turning her eye toward poetry, and perhaps yet another venture.
WHAT'S IN:
- Poets and spoken word
- Artificial intelligence
- Spending less/saving more
- Bold colors
- Home cooking
WHAT'S OUT:
- Freedom of speech
- Wearing uncomfortable shoes
- Excessive makeup
- Oversharing on social media
- GMO food
The writer, producer, and director co-founded his production company Must B Nice alongside Jamie Dolan weeks before the pandemic hit. In the short time since, he's set up a new venture, Fazeworld, with the goal of adapting the traditional television format to fit new media platforms. According to Faze, 2024 will be the year of quotidian pleasures: newspapers, office work, and—dare he say—cow's milk.
WHAT'S IN:
- Irish exiting
- The Sunday paper
- Working in an office
- Regular milk in coffee
- The MSG Sphere
WHAT'S OUT:
- Credit card debt
- Saying Venus is in retrograde
- Zoom
- Audio notes over 15 seconds unless it’s to flirt
- Vaping (just smoke a cigarette)
The English writer, photographer, editor, and model spent her year collaborating with Vogue and jet-setting to Manchester with Chanel. Next year, however, she's focused on introspection and escape.
WHAT'S IN:
- Life drawing and libraries
- Good manners and country pubs
- Nature rambles and date nights
- Poetry and mountain climbing
- Tennis whites and cat-eye shades
WHAT'S OUT:
- Perfectionism
- Long haul
- Allergies
- Dress codes
- Working from everywhere
The Berlin-based fashion writer, editor, and brand consultant is known to her disciples for her firm and incisive cultural criticism, funneled always through the lens of the fashion industry and its cults of personality. She's also the proprietor of the password-protected online designer boutique Disruptive Berlin.
WHAT'S IN:
- Hostile takeovers
- Arriving on time and leaving early
- Being opinionated
- Overdressing
- VICs (they are my Roman empire)
- Holding hands
- Press discount
- Shitposting on main
WHAT'S OUT:
- Leisurewear
- Digital covers
- Micro bags!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Learning about “personal style” on TikTok
- Keeping it short
- New Year’s resolutions
- “Techno” after parties at fashion weeks. (Who is trying to rave in the samples that they have to give back the next morning?)
- Unpaid internships
The conceptual artist and writer blends absurdity and sincerity into her work, most recently in a recent show at Belgium's M Leuven. In 2024, she'll focus on quiet contemplation at whispering bars and reading parties, and she'll be keeping it all off social media.
WHAT’S IN:
- Integrity as value
- Any medium as a potentially serious one
- Reading parties
- Whispering bars
- Post studio for studio space
- Handwritten letters
- Asking what art does
WHAT’S OUT:
- Not paying artists their worth
- Zoom
- The myth of singular authorship
- Addressing complexities on social media
- Asking what art is
This past year, you might have spotted the model, activist, and native New Yorker in editorials for Essence, Purple, Autre Magazine or campaigns for the likes of Parade, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Telfar. You could also have run into her snapping pics at T.R.A.N.'s Trans Night of Resistance, singing opera at Black Trans Liberation's Transgiving, or fêting her birthday at the Brooklyn staple Happyfun Hideaway. In 2024, the founder of the Celebration of Black Trans Women Cookout is channeling abundance, giving up dairy, and formally introducing a different facet of herself to the world.
WHAT'S IN:
- The Celebration of Black Trans Women Tour. I will be taking the Celebration of Black Trans Women Cookout with activations in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York.
- Black Trans Love. We will invest in community, relationships, ourselves in a radical way that defies the things we know to be true. Black Trans Love transcends identity; it is a practice.
- Beyoncé's Act II of Renaissance, lol
- Fabulousness. Everything will be fabbbbbbb!
- TELFAR!
- Introducing parts of yourself to the world you have never shared. I have music coming out. I am dropping two songs— “The Character” and “Body Party.” Stay tuned!
- Abundance
WHAT'S OUT:
- Trump!
- Internet thugs
- Neon Coat
- Dairy. I discovered I'm lactose intolerant.
- The haters!!!!!!! Anyone who can take Black trans people winning!
First spotted in a 2002 episode of Lizzie McGuire, the actor and comedian has since become a film world mainstay, appearing in films including Sorry to Bother You, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Don't Worry Darling. Up next is her one-woman show, Kate, opening in January and directed by Bo Burnham.
WHAT'S IN:
- God
- Steel
- Aging
- Being close to your cousins
- Making coffee at home
WHAT'S OUT:
- Phones
- Marble
- Freezing your eggs
- (Compulsive) masturbation
- Brie and other soft cheese
Between her roles in Transparent, Hustlers, and Monica, the actor has carved out a nuanced and necessary space for trans characters in Hollywood. In an interview with The Guardian about her principal role in Monica earlier this year, she said, “I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen a film with a trans person as the lead. It’s not lost on me that this is special.”
WHAT'S IN:
- Unapologetic binary femme transsexuals
- Analog. Anything analog
- Romance. Where tf did it go?
- Straight celebs dating trans women publicly instead of hiding it or paying for it on the DL
- High-waisted flared pants… dare I say bell bottoms
- Straight men in crop tops
WHAT'S OUT:
- Murder docs
- Posting more than once a week on social media
- Eyelashes that look like giant spiders
- Having a hot take on everything
- Empty hookups and dating apps
- “Diversity” that forgets to include trans folx
The writer and actress is known for a confessional style that blurs the boundaries between performance and intimacy, offering an "anti-curated curated" glimpse at the messy, covetable, and absurdist aspects of daily existence. For Hamilton, sincerity is in for 2024.
WHAT'S IN:
- Flesh colored stockings
- Painting in your free time
- Video games
- Dressing yourself and not having a stylist (I hope!!! Bring back messy personal style on red carpets)
- Sincerity
- Modesty (I’m working on it)
- A worthy role model (not a mentor)
- Dressing up to go to the airport
- Riding Yellow in NY// taking a Lime in LA (goodbye Uber)
- Rock climbing
- agnès b.
- Becoming a godparent
- Ordering a cup of maraschino cherries at the bar
WHAT'S OUT:
- Stalking your partner's exes
- A humble brag Instagram bio
- Autobiographical material (won’t stop me, but it’s definitely OUT)
- Cigarettes (ditto)
- Highlights for brunettes
- Being publicly close with your family
- Comparing oneself to Diane Keaton
- Taylor Swift brought up in conversation at least once daily (how is that always happening)
- Female friendships born from jealousy
- Botox, injections, any kind of work on your face
- Having a friend group
- Bowling (enough already)
The founder of his eponymous Antwerp-based gallery, Van Laere had a busy 2023. He opened a second location in Rome, inaugurating the space with a solo exhibition by artist Ben Sledsens. Champion of both emerging and established artists, Van Laere's predictions for the new year come as no surprise.
WHAT’S IN:
- ART
- ART
- ART
- TENNIS
- LOVE
WHAT’S OUT:
- POLITICS
- POLITICS
- POLITICS
- WAR
- HATE
This Brooklyn-based artist is working to reject whiteness as a default point of origin, capturing her subjects, often Black women from her community, on brown surfaces. Essential workers, queer couples, and friends and family all make appearances in paintings and splashed across flyers and t-shirts. Next year, Brown is planning to continue pushing the bounds of her oeuvre.
WHAT'S IN:
- Protect Black Trans Women
- Black Lesbians
- Free Palestine
- Mary J. Blige
- Integrity
- Not waiting for an apology
- Getting my lick back
WHAT'S OUT:
- Lack of acknowledgment
- Starbucks
- Socks that don’t match
- Small talk
- My Netflix password
- Negative self talk
- Internalizing someone else’s shit!
Catherine Lacey isn’t afraid of big questions. The acclaimed novelist's latest book, Biography of X, tackles big and unwieldy questions with tenderness and candor. It's no surprise, then, that existential curiosity is in for 2024.
WHAT'S IN:
- Velvet
- Breakfast
- Happiness without irony or apology
- Reading in bed in the morning
- Existential curiosity
WHAT'S OUT:
- Athleisure
- Lunch
- Performing your sadness
- Waking up to a phone alarm clock
- Existential dread
The New York Magazine fashion writer and social media manager came to her current position off a trailblazing run at the New York Times, where she received a Pulitzer alongside the paper’s Coronavirus tracking team. The success has earned her one thing in 2024: eight hours of sleep.
WHAT’S IN:
- Idolizing writers
- Boycotting
- Losing love and yet wishing them “wings, as it were” as Frieda Hughes does
- Dinner in the city at 7 p.m.
- Tightlining your waterline with black eyeliner
- Sleeping eight hours a night
- Lying on the couch with six to 10 friends for eight hours at a time
- Asking people to hang out even if you feel a little shy
- Humility
- Having fun rather than performing the act of fun
- Specifically, my heritage
- Sushi
WHAT’S OUT:
- Idolizing celebrity
- Passive consumption
- Apathy
- Staged, intentional attempts at mimicking wealth/coolness
- Infantilizing adults and allowing the use of phrases like “I just don’t know enough!” and “it’s so complicated!” without, at least, verbal mockery
- Bragging about pulling an all-nighter
- Clout-chasing via name-dropping
- Red meat
In-the-know New Yorkers are likely already familiar with the name, but Masami Hosono, founder of the East Village's Vacancy Project, is the hairstylist behind many of the city's most forward-thinking cuts. Their scissors have already glided over the heads of creatives including King Princess, Pierce Abernathy, and Ella Emhoff. Now, their sartorial predictions have expanded beyond beautifying.
WHAT'S IN:
- Moving to Brooklyn
- Enjoying a non-binary femme phase
- Highball
- Dinner at 5 p.m.
- Not hesitating to wear ties
WHAT'S OUT:
- Buying sneakers
- Living in Manhattan
- Martinis
- Post-Covid social anxiety
- Midnight noodles
Since 2016, when the then-17-year-old writer published her memoir, Trying to Float, Rips has been accumulating bylines in the New York Times, The Face, Office, and CULTURED. This year, she examined the cultural phenomenon that is Fran Lebowitz for our Winter issue cover story.
WHAT'S IN:
- The Middle Ages (herbs/tinctures/chainmail)
- Vanilla bean paste
- Having a GODDAMN sense of humor about it all
- Redemption for rodents
- Analog emojis
- Love, ephemeral or everlasting
- Feats of strength (this goes with the Middle Ages thing—archery, martial arts, saying "hey watch this" and running really fast)
- White fur
- Having a little space of your own with a lot of air and a lot of light
- Checkers
WHAT'S OUT:
- A somber, pious, suffering nature
- AirPods
- Bunnies (it's not personal)
- Inanity and insanity
- Being friends with everyone you've ever slept with
- Closet sales
- Lists
The Internet's princess is known for a cultural criticism Substack that boasts over 75,000 subscribers. Her investigations into womanhood, commodification, and more will soon to be available in her debut book, Complex Female Character.
WHAT'S IN:
- A weird haircut
- Biggest coat with tiniest dress
- Unwavering ideological conviction
- Nipples
- Matchmaking
- Metabolizing pain into love
WHAT'S OUT:
- TikTok-bait visual gimmick restaurants
- Respectability
- Curated “authenticity”
- Skincare
- Media with a clear-cut moral takeaway
- Doing pretty much anything to your eyebrows
