Tish Weinstock Is an Amorphous and Contemporary It Girl

• On early influences Tish grew up in London in a traditional home marked by early loss, gravitating to darker, sardonic heroines and art that felt surreal, spooky, and sincere.
  
  
• On first contact with fashion She obsessed over ad campaigns on her bedroom wall and later realized that what drew her in was storytelling through images as much as clothes.
  
  
• On finding the door in A chance encounter at a friend’s house led to internships at Tank and Garage where she learned the grind and took her first steps into writing.
  
  
• On writing as power At i-D she published I’m an intern, not an idiot and learned that words move systems even when the system pushes back.
  
  
• On becoming a beauty writer by accident She did not care about products at first and then noticed beauty as identity and language in a new wave of body positivity, drag, and Instagram natives.
  
  
• On Isamaya French and Dazed Beauty Collaborating there showed her how beauty can merge subculture, technology, and art long before the wider culture caught up.
  
  
• On creativity and authenticity The work sings when the obsession is real and it falls flat when the topic is traffic bait that she does not care about.
  
  
• On writing today Substack rekindled her love of writing as a living diary where immediacy and imperfection feel more honest than highly polished feeds.
  
  
• On wellness and the mind A week without a phone at a trauma program helped her reframe negative thoughts and confirmed that presence is a practice not an arrival.
  
  
• On what is contemporary now Radical honesty feels most alive today since culture is saturated with performance and curation and audiences are hungry for what is real.

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Notable Quotes: 

• “I was always the observer, drinking it all in.”
  
  
• “I sadly lost my father when I was five, and there was a very palpable sense of grief growing up.”
  
  
• “I gravitated towards culture that felt a little bit darker and a little bit weirder and freakier.”
  
  
• “I thought all the ad campaigns were really major, like Tom Ford era Gucci and Saint Laurent, and I would cut them out and stick them on my wall.”
  
  
• “When I wrote that piece called I’m an intern, not an idiot and someone from upstairs came running in to tell me to take it down, that’s when I realized your words actually matter, that they can shake something even if the system doesn’t want them to.”
  
  
• “I didn’t really give a fuck about beauty, and sometimes I’m like, do I still?”
  
  
• “I was interested in how beauty was being seen as a vehicle for self-expression, a platform to talk about identity.”
  
  
• “A week without your phone does wonders.”
  
  
• “Lean into the weirdness, lean into the strangeness, and you will be able to turn it into your strength.”
  
  
• “Radical honesty is what feels contemporary now.”