Rachel Tashjian Wise on How To Get Your Greedy Little Hands on Her Invite-Only Newsletter

"There's no special secret, it's not like going to the Beatrice Inn"

Three years ago, I had a friend who had a friend who started working at Telfar. “She doesn’t even know anything about fashion,” my friend told me about her friend, outside of a bar. She’d recently tried to dye her hair red, but something had gone awry during the bleaching or foilyage-ing or ecaille-ing, and it was really more orange. Like the color of a Reese’s wrapper. When I asked how she had learned about fashion, she said, “I get the Opulent Tips newsletter.” I think she rolled her eyes when she said this, but maybe that didn’t happen. “Rachel Tashjian writes it, you have to ask her to be added to the list.” She stomped on her cigarette. That night I DMed TheProphetPizza asking to be added to her mystical, friendship-ending, capital-F-Fashion list.

A few days later I received an email entitled: OT #53: YOU ARE INTENSE AND LOVE THE AVANT GARDE.

“The reality is that most people don't know very much about fashion,” Rachel tells me a couple of weeks ago. “It's part of the intellectual c…