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This week we tackle ingénue Margaret Qualley with the help of my friend and the writer/trend forecaster Holly Friend. We analyze Margaret’s recent re-introduction as an explicit sex object (The Substance, her Bond Girl potential, etc.), and the many intertwined celebrity dramas that make up her myth. We explore her ugly duckling origin story, insistence on her own girlishness, luminous elven beauty, infamous lip bite, and career ambitions, and dive into the Dream/Threat latent in her marriage and creative partnership with Jack Antonoff.
Subscribe to Holly’s new Substack Recurring Character and follow her on IG!
Discussed:
Lena Dunham on Girls Rewatch podcast
Blonde Margaret hamming it up
Margaret’s infamous Kenzo World campaign
“Lights! Camera! Margaret!” profile in i-D (2025)
“Margaret Qualley is a Maverick in the Making” AnOther Mag (2022)
W Mag photoshoot with Margaret and Mikey Madison (2020)
Margaret Qualley Once Upon a Time in Hollywood TikTok edits
“Crush” Rachel Antonoff SS14 campaign
“Tiny Moves” Bleachers music video (2024)
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This week we tackle ingénue Margaret Qualley with the help of my friend and the writer/trend forecaster Holly Friend. We analyze Margaret’s recent re-introduction as an explicit sex object (The Substance, her Bond Girl potential, etc.), and the many intertwined celebrity dramas that make up her myth. We explore her ugly duckling origin story, insistence on her own girlishness, luminous elven beauty, infamous lip bite, and career ambitions, and dive into the Dream/Threat latent in her marriage and creative partnership with Jack Antonoff.
Subscribe to Holly’s new Substack Recurring Character and follow her on IG!
Discussed:
Lena Dunham on Girls Rewatch podcast
Blonde Margaret hamming it up
Margaret’s infamous Kenzo World campaign
“Lights! Camera! Margaret!” profile in i-D (2025)
“Margaret Qualley is a Maverick in the Making” AnOther Mag (2022)
W Mag photoshoot with Margaret and Mikey Madison (2020)
Margaret Qualley Once Upon a Time in Hollywood TikTok edits
“Crush” Rachel Antonoff SS14 campaign
“Tiny Moves” Bleachers music video (2024)

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