Fro-Yo PowerPoints and Cadaver Facials

Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. 🫶

• The line is the hottest club in New York, the third space Gen Z wants, and the entire point

• Glossier is so back???

• Every brand is a merch brand now (Parke x Dunkin’, Starbucks x Dandy, Pizza Hut, OpenAI, and on and on)

• Analog takes over teen bedrooms

• $159,500 anxiety relief for a 14-year-old

• Sade spikes 52% after one FX premiere

• One million beers, logged by young strangers

• Hailey Bieber denim, gone in minutes

• Ties are the new feather boa

• “I mog your side profile tho”

And so much more, plus everything I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:

THE HOTTEST CLUB IN NEW YORK

It was funny to see Ravenous (“Why Do We Wait in Those Big Dumb Lines?,” July 9), then New York (“It’s Humiliating. It’s Exhilarating. It’s a Line.,” July 13), then Bloomberg (“The Line Outside Is Almost More Famous Than the Food,” July 14) publish reports about rampant line culture among young people in New York City within a few short days.