Crafty Cloak Designer Lindsey Thornburg’s Love/Hate/Love Relationship With The Internet

Hip, sexy, talented, and, apparently, quite the comic interlocutor, Brooklyn-based designer of Navajo-inspired cloaks and all manner of 21st-Century Earth Mother wear, Lindsey Thornburg offered up her various opinions of the fashion Internets to The Contributing Editor. Yes, as an up-and-coming designer she loves it. Yes, by the same rationale, she hates it. But at the end of the day, it’s all about the Benjamins. “I love how you can really do some solid background checks on possible love interests. I also like seeing how people choose to represent themselves online. As far as how it affects my business…

…I try not to get too involved with the Internet… everything feels contrived and accessible, we’ve wiped out the subculture—It’s all there for the taking. I had a younger roommate once that would wake in the morning and check a fashion blog before dressing herself. The internet has homogenized fashion. That being said, I do love the instant gratification of it all. Someone posts something about my stuff on a blog, and it’s like all of a sudden someone from Tasmania is calling to order a cloak. SWEET!” [The Contributing Editor]