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Ciao from Rome! It’s 11pm and I’m sitting at the kitchen table in a studio apartment with a liter bottle of smartwater on my left and a hair tie on my right. The windows are cracked open, a plume of cigarette-y cold night air drifts in. I have a small pile of beautiful paper shopping bags growing in the corner, and can’t wait to share my “best of” vintage report soon.
A few weeks ago, I asked the chat what TV shows you guys were loving, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles was the most mentioned by far. So, I hope you enjoy today’s letter and I’d love to hear what you thought of the finale!! And thank you to the brilliant Samantha Leach for editing this piece.
SPOILERS FOR THE SEASON BELOW.
Here’s a question for you: picture an OnlyFans star. What is she wearing?
As Gen Z “bops” such as Sophie Rain, Ari Kytsya, and Levi Coralynn have gone mainstream as social media influencers in recent years, a uniform for contemporary adult content creators has taken shape. There is a certain look we associate with OF style: perhaps it’s tiny crop tops with strategically placed peekaboo cutouts, or stretchy spandex booty shorts that miiiight just get flagged for “violating Community Guidelines” on TikTok. As the line between social media influencing and sex work gets increasingly blurred, we’re seeing more media that explores the topic (ex: Euphoria Season 3).
The most compelling social commentary on sex work through costume design right now is in Margo's Got Money Troubles, Apple TV+'s dramedy based on Rufi Thorpe's novel.
Margo Millet (Elle Fanning) is a 20-year-old aspiring writer whose life is upended when she gets knocked up by her married college lit professor. When baby Bodhi arrives, Margo finds herself without a steady income or childcare—meaning, our girl needs a remote job that pays the bills, stat.
This is how our headstrong protagonist ends up opening an OF account under the stage name HungryGhost. When Margo first joins OF, she looks to other creators on the platform for outfit/profile inspo. After all, we all need some guidance for what to wear for the first day of a new job…
She scrolls through examples like “Jen Rides an ATV,” who poses suggestively in a