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MOVING OUT? WHEN'S THE RIGHT TIME FOR YOU
WHERE TO LOOK WHEN YOU'RE LOST: A SELF REFLECTION
MAGGIE ROGERS BECOMES HERSELF AGAIN
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POEMS TO PASS THE TIME
JOURNEY / 24 HOURS IN NYC
ASTROLOGY: TAURUS EDITION
HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM JOB
THE MOST INSPIRING DRIVING PLAYLIST
VINTAGE VINYLS, POLAROIDS, & MORE
CREATE / WHAT'S IN MY STUDIO (SOPHIE BEER)
RECIPES TO ADD SUNSHINE TO YOUR SOUL
STYLE / FOUR WAYS TO FIND YOUR STYLE
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ife as a young, creative woman is certainly one of a kind. With the world we live in today, it is extremely challenging to find out who you really are. The pressures of society, social media, celebrities, and family– to just name a few–are constantly weighing in on a young woman’s journey of self-discovery. People are constantly telling you who you should be, but discovering yourself is something to do on your own. Within a woman’s mind are countless emotions, which can make finding who you are extremely challenging. Here at Wanderess, we want to be the guiding light in helping you find your meaning of life and help you discover who you are and who you want to be. Wanderess highlights a variety of life’s adventures into tips, tricks, and advice to help find the inspiration you need. While reading, you will experience different stories of travel, music, art, fashion, food, advice, and self-reflection which we hope you can relate to in your life. We hope you enjoy reading this issue of Wanderess and that we can help be the guiding light to finding your creative means in life. With love and happiness, Keri Stefkovich (Editor-in-Chief)
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and from the city, but there is an upper level that you may walk across. The best time of day to visit this famous spot is between the hours of 6 am and 8 am during the week.
The best time to come here is between 3–5 pm before the rush of tourists come for sunset, though watching at sunset is also marvelous.
10AM ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER Start your morning paying tribute to the Americans who lost their lives at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Afterwards, check out the newly rebuilt One World Trade Center where you can view the city from its observatory at 102 floors up. For those architect lovers, head over to the Oculus and marvel at its design.
5 PM CHELSEA MARKET Looking for some of the best grub in a casual setting? The Chelsea Markets are a collection of local shops, eateries and bars enclosed in a building located in the Chelsea neighborhood. Food ranges from sit-down meals to takeaway, my favorite being Li-Lac Chocolates and Doughnuttery. After you’ve eaten and strolled through the market, head back to your hotel to refresh before a big night out.
12:30PM ENJOY THE BEST FOOD AT GELSO & GRAND In the heart of Little Italy is one of the tastiest and aesthetically pleasing Italian restaurants I’ve ever dined at. We were lucky enough to be treated to lunch here by Gelso & Grand’s owners and had no choice but to be surprised by the decadent meals they decided to grace us with. Definitely bring your appetite to Little Italy. 3PM TOP OF THE ROCK You’ve seen the Top of the Rock on Instagram as it’s one of the best views in town! Located 67 stories and 820 feet above ground is the observatory deck, providing unparalleled views of the city and its impressive skyline.
7 PM TIMES SQUARE As the finale of your trip, it only seems fitting to squeeze in a trip to Time Square. There you will see New York in all of its bustling, show-stopping glory the world loves oh so much.
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In photographs, Rogers brings to mind a millennial version of Sissy Spacek circa “Badlands” crossed with Lana Del Rey; what the pictures don’t capture is the articulate intensity she exhibits in conversation, especially when she talks about re-establishing control over her career after an unexpected brush with viral fame — a moment that led to labels knocking down her
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of self-promotion as a job requirement. After some internal debate about whether to note the news on social media at all, she posted a tweet that included a string of exclamation points but began with the word “WHAAAAATTT” — celebratory, yet noncommittal.
excited? We don’t know if we’re supposed to be excited.’" Rogers wasn’t quite sure either. She started out as a banjo-slinging folkie, but broke through with songs like “Alaska” and “On + Off,” whose sonic textures reflected her growing interest in electronic dance music and mainstream pop. Perhaps appropriately, she has both a folkie’s suspicion of airplay charts and No. 1 hits as markers of artistic success and a pop star’s understanding
door, but one she ultimately found quite destabilizing. Her third album and first on a major label, “Heard It in a Past Life,” is due on Friday. “Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist I totally understand,” Rogers said. “But it meant that my many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story.” Rogers grew up in rural Easton, Md. Her father is a now-retired Ford dealer; her mother,
During this time, she also found herself unable to write songs, even as graduation loomed and her music-production classes demanded it. “All my teachers were really frustrated with me,” she said. She began seriously considering a career in music journalism as a fallback; she interned at Spin and Elle and worked as an editorial assistant to the writer Lizzy Goodman, transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews with the leading lights of the early 2000s New York indie-rock boom for Goodman’s oral history “Meet Me in the Bathroom.” Then in March 2016, during the second semester of Rogers’s senior year, Pharrell Williams visited her music-production class to critique student work. Rogers brought a demo of “Alaska,” on which her supple soprano bobs and weaves over a sparse shuffle beat that brings to mind Williams’s own work with producing partner Chad Hugo as the Neptunes In a video that subsequently
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a former nurse who introduced Rogers to Erykah Badu and Alanis Morissette, now works as an end-of-life doula. Rogers was writing songs by age 13; at 17, she produced and selfreleased her debut album, “The Echo,” which channeled the pastoral spirit of early Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. The demos for that record helped her secure admission to the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In New York, she played in multiple bands and “overdosed on live music”; during a semester abroad, she visited clubs in Paris and Berlin and fell in love with house and techno.
☼ blew up online Rogers plays her demo for Williams, whose face contorts in surprise and delight while he listens. “I’ve never heard anyone like you before,” he tells her afterward. “That’s a drug for me.” Coming from Williams — a category-killing industry icon who’s worked with Migos and Ed Sheeran, indelibly stamping his imprint on 2000s pop as well as hip-hop — this was a careermaking endorsement. But it wasn’t one Rogers had sought out, and she says now that she was unprepared for the attention that came with it. “As a producer, as a songwriter, I’ve spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone,” she says. “Suddenly I was in the public eye in this way that I had absolutely no control over. It was really scary.” After the Pharrell video caught fire, Rogers became the focus of an old-fashioned record-company bidding war. She compared processing that video with a more recent broadcast moment: her early November appearance previewing her new album
LIFE I N THE OFFIC E on “Saturday Night Live,” which was met with a mixed response. “This thing happens when you’re like grossly overstimulated, your memory changes,” she said. “It’s the same reason why I haven’t watched any of my S.N.L. performances. It’s just, like, I want to keep that for me. And I realized from the Pharrell stuff when you watch it back it changes your memory. And I want to really protect the way I’m remembering things.” “Heard It in a Past Life” is a collection of buoyant electronic pop songs, but the lyrics are unmistakably the work of an introvert struggling to recalibrate. “Oh, I couldn’t stop it,” she sings on “Light On.” “Tried to slow it all down/Crying in the bathroom, had to figure it out/ With everyone around me saying ‘You must be so happy now.’”
The first line of the opening song, “Give a Little,” is “If I was who I was before”; the last track is a triumphant ballad called “Back in My Body.” Rogers is not coy about the work’s autobiographical component; she describes the album as an attempt to process everything she’s experienced since 2016 and take back control of the narrative around her career experience.” Maggie Rogers’ highly anticipated album, “Heard It In a Past Life” is available on all music streaming platforms and in stores starting January 18, 2019. •
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Illustrator Sophie Beer has worked hard to develop her bold and playful style. We caught up with the Brisbane-based creative to list all of her favorite things in her quirky at-home studio.
FUN ILLUSTRATIONS TO LIGHTEN UP MY MOOD & SPARK CREATIVITY
AN APPLE iMAC, A DESIGNER'S WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD
MY CELLPHONE, HOW ELSE WOULD I STAY ORGANIZED?
A BOLD PATTERED DRESS, I THINK I HAVE ABOUT 100 OF THEM IN MY CLOSET
A TABLET, PAPER, PAINTS, PENS & SO MUCH MORE– YOU NAME IT, I GOT IT
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Before you start anything, create your foundation first. It doesn’t yet matter what you like and dislike, as essential wardrobe items can be accessorized to fit any style. If you’re colorful and loud or subtle and cleanlined — all of that will be useless if you don’t have a solid foundation of basics to build against. What are your basics? A good start is to nail down staples: a striped tee, cardigan, knit sweater, tailored blazer, jeans, dress pants, a denim jacket, a little black dress, a neutral toned skirt, cold weather coat, booties, ballet flats, and leather sandals.
Let’s clear up some misconceptions. Usually when you think of finding your style, you think of choosing a certain personality and running with that aesthetic. While it does narrow things down if you fall into a certain type of look, that doesn’t mean you can’t like things outside of that style. The trick is to notice what specifically you like about that style. This means you should look for clothes that fit those shapes and hues, rather than those categories. You can have two totally different pieces, and love them both the same.
At this point you’re starting to catch on as to what sort of vibe appeals to you the most. Keeping these feelings in mind, study which pieces you like to reach for the most in your closet and ask yourself why that might be. Do you like the silhouette it creates? Do you enjoy how the color mixes with other hues, or how the pattern contrasts in a fun way against other pieces? Once you pin down your likes, try to find other wardrobe pieces that fit in those categories.
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Now that you have an idea of what you like, what you don’t like, you’re ready to start combining your pieces into outfits. Shopping is much different than styling. To get you started, look for inspiration outside of yourself. Find a few bloggers that captivate your aesthetic; head to Instagram and follow a handful of women with very defined looks that are similar to your style. If I’m feeling uninspired with my closet, I scroll through the images and instantly get the itch to copy one of the ideas. So go hunt down looks, examine your own closet, and dip into fashion with purpose. You’ll be stylin’ in no time. •
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