Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 17hListen, I’m already delicate because I live in the US & it’s Paris Fashion Week but then I started watching the new season of the Great British Bake Off & then Nigella Lawson came on the screen & then I loved every misfit contestant & now I’m a mess. Damn you to hell, GBBO. 4863
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 21hWHAT: Céline (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: big business or, in Sorrento, on vacation, whispering to your cousin, “Do you what you will, Veronica. But remember, I was on that balcony in Gstaad. I know what I know.” IF IT WERE A SCENT: private elevator EMOTIONAL RANGE: suave/apt #MJMfashionGuide 8785
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good morning! As I woke, shaft of sunlight across my torso, I thought how I might deal with my friend who had a party last night & who has a ton of indoor plants & who was talking about them, which caused me to involuntarily shudder, revealing my quixotic hatred of indoor plants. 8481
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026WHAT: Yohji Yamamoto (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: lighting the candles strewn about a ballroom while a lone cellist plays or carrying a small cooing bird your hands while walking a forest path IF IT WERE A SCENT: gate opening to the sea EMOTIONAL RANGE: sublime/vanguard #MJMfashionGuide 12879
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Me trying to explain my plan/idea in simple, practical terms. 0595
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026WHAT: Loewe (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: ignoring the accountant or law school, but weird. Staircases that go up somehow descend. Ivy twists into nooses. Low chanting. Your prof is speaking…Sanskrit? Help! IF IT WERE A SCENT: first spring crocus EMOTIONAL RANGE: seemingly carefree #MJMfashionGuide 8615
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026WHAT: Rick (should be Ric) Owens (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: clipping coupons or tapping out “I feel your warmth even when you are gone” in Morse code to your lover who is in the adjacent cell in the spaceship brig IF IT WERE A SCENT: soldering iron (hot) EMOTIONAL RANGE: 1/0 #MJMfashionGuide 6676
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When a recipe calls for sour cream & I use crème fraîche 3593
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I laugh easier now. See friends. Food tastes better. Even colors are brighter. I can’t control the future: but I can say, as of today, as of right now, I’m at inbox zero. 1022117
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026WHAT: Balenciaga (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: flirting with a shy librarian or breaking down the whole of the visible world into its constituent shapes, vectors, colors IF IT WERE A SCENT: orange peel on a picnic blanket in Central Park EMOTIONAL RANGE: curious/enamored #MJMfashionGuide 7727
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureRichard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Autumn Omens 2026 A hole in the ground seems cozy. Strange Times by The Chameleons. Walking at 7PM is like walking at 3AM. A mouse would like a word. The garden looks tortured, but for the asters. Golden rod is not a weed. Ray Bradbury. Any small living thing is an imp. 1276
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026WHAT: Tom Ford (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: exiting silently, via a fire escape, or saying, “Finish your shrimp cocktail, Heinrich, & lock yourself in the bathroom. I know how mêlée upsets you.” IF IT WERE A SCENT: ice cube on the clavicle EMOTIONAL RANGE: voluptuous/secretive #MJMfashionGuide 8907
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m so, so glad that I still have a friend from the summer I worked concessions in an art house movie theatre & would be a smiley funster with my coworkers & would only glare & sigh at customers. I need to be reminded of that MJM. 1371
Reposted by Michael Jay McClurePaul @thentherespaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me at the lunch table: So who else thinks the new science teacher needs to calm the fuck down? 0171
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026WHAT: Dries van Noten (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: emotionally fraught tea or Los Angeles. May, 1939. You may have been raised on a farm but, Mr Zanuck, you’re a born tap dancer & soon the whole world will know it! IF IT WERE A SCENT: hope chest EMOTIONAL RANGE: plucky/screwball #MJMfashionGuide 17906
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026WHAT: Saint Laurent (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: chic hopscotch or at a cocktail party you hear a ringing, a calling, & simultaneously 15 of you drop your champagne coupes & form a sisterhood—to OWN THE NIGHT IF IT WERE A SCENT: wheeled suitcase over cobblestone EMOTIONAL RANGE: 🔑/✨ #MJMfashionGuide 1213615
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureTom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My true-crime podcast about a bizarre kidnapping in rural Ohio is a finalist for a 2026 Signal Award. I’d be grateful if you’d help me grow its audience by giving it a VOTE at the link below! 1264
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026WHAT: Dior (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: burning your diary or standing on a seaside cliff—whipping wind, violent waves—as you call off your engagement to a prig banker. You shall choose a wilder life! IF IT WERE A SCENT: copse at twilight EMOTIONAL RANGE: defiant/compelled #MJMfashionGuide 6573
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is illegal, at a meeting, to pass out an agenda with enumerated items & then proceed to go through these items out of order. A lot of people don’t know that or that the punishment for doing so is immediate, no-trial shanking. 5713
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would argue that tracking a package IS a form of mindfulness, Daphne. 29214
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureRedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026[standing out in my corduroy field] Beautiful, she’s almost ready for harvest 07520
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026WHAT: Julia Kegels (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: fairy godmother emerging from a funhouse mirror or announcing the dissolution of a storied, stuffy British Men’s Club (you bought it; will be a women’s health clinic) IF IT WERE A SCENT: jammed copier EMOTIONAL RANGE: commanding/cheeky #MJMfashionGuide 4484
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureJ. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026back in 2012, you could tweet 'Does Grimace Fuck?' and you'd get a coffee table book at Urban Outfitters, a first-look deal at CBS, and the keynote spot at SXSW on the future of storytelling by Friday 2619
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My young teen niece “ended up” with one of my fave sweaters* (minimal, navy, buttons at one shoulder, & a tight, near neoprene weave) in her drawer & when she told me this I closed my eyes, sighed, & was like, “wear it with a super full skirt & then bring it home for Thanksgiving & we’re square.” 4682
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS oiling the swingset stop when you smell oatmeal placing ice cubes in orchids & hoping for bees subtle as stacked microwaves puppy, I ain’t a leg plink, plink! pearls coming off the strand rich in fruit peels backup singers taking a smoke break & THAT’S a Myanmar shave 1521339
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sunday. Where we turn into characters haunted by our past, unwilling to face the future. Perhaps, we think, we shall look at the miniature perfection of our glass menagerie. 5528
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026WHAT: Bottega Veneta (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: podcast cleanse or levitating in the central square of a small, mountain village; “Come to me!,” you beckon, using only the power of your mind IF IT WERE A SCENT: lumber hot from the circular saw EMOTIONAL RANGE: prescient/reticent #MJMfashionGuide 6581
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My friend’s very proper Southern mother hired, controversially, a younger man to clean her house & today she learned that the first thing that this “cleaning man” does when he comes into work is to put on a 💖 Lionel Ritchie 💖 CD & this is the best thing I’ve ever heard & I need a fainting couch. 2773
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureMichael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The western Massachusetts Lesbian community hasn't had this kind of media attention since the 20/20 story in the early 90s.youtu.be20/20 commercial, October 1992 - "Lesbians"YouTube video by comma commercials 291
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Again, in the future, I’m not going to normal die, I’m just going to be permanently suspended in a Thom Browne suit whilst jumping nimbly over a puddle on a sidewalk. The puddle will also be there permanently, as part of my alt death. 2584
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Saw my dad out in the wild having coffee with his friend Bob & my dad was wearing a maroon cashmere sweater* & Bob was wearing a leather fisherman’s cap & I knew everyone in the café would be nice to them because they unknowingly look like a couple & no one better ever, ever inform them of this. 31406
Reposted by Michael Jay McClurePaul @thentherespaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Did you ever feel like a plastic bag standing in front of a boy asking him to catch a grenade for you? I just wanted to combine my top 3 least favorite quotes/lyrics. Now, Show me the money!! 1132
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In the year of our Lord 2026, I got a sincere “Woot!” text. 2262
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 24/09/2026WHAT: Marni (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: shaking your head “no” at a poetry reading or quietly, passionately studying architecture on breaks from your government job in Czechoslovakia in 1987 IF IT WERE A SCENT: metal filing cabinet filled with cigars? EMOTIONAL RANGE: visionary/shy #MJMfashionGuide 10857
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the way to the restaurant I saw an unhoused man who was chanting, audibly but not loudly: & you a f’idiot & you a f’idiot & you a f’idiot & you a f’idiot &, sure, my feelings were hurt when I walked by & he kept chanting it but also, it’s SUCH A GOOD HOOK. 2472
Reposted by Michael Jay McCluremave @mave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Do not tell me the place I buy my dog’s food from has updated its privacy policy?!! 0487
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureLadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Surely there must be a drag queen named Cookie Consent somewhere 14511
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Café. My dad’s accountant called me here so I’m suing her for $830,000 dollars for interrupting my reverie. 3432
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WHAT: Jil Sander (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: lawyering for a monastery/abbey or being a total frost at a cocktail party by saying the word “data” too much IF IT WERE A SCENT: overflowing pedestal sink EMOTIONAL RANGE: do not make me laugh (ha!) at your belief in so-called emotions #MJMfashionGuide 5686
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hi. I will never post his fuckface nor will I post a link to his fuckface. Because I don’t want my face anywhere near, or to be associated with, his fuckface. 4942
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureJoan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ate a lemon cookie, selected a jumpsuit from the archives, took out the trash. I’m going to have fun tonight. 0201
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We need to get together every week. 6:00 PM. Tuesdays. For maybe a calligraphy class. & then pork chops & champagne. I’m serious. I’m putting it in my calendar for the next year. —basically what I say, & sincerely mean, & absolutely cannot commit to, at the end of every conversation with a friend. 2601
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 22/09/2026WHAT: Prada (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: undead secretarying or breaking up with your childhood sweetheart via text (“I hope you can forgive me; a new life calls to me!”) at Galleria Borghese in Rome IF IT WERE A SCENT: slightly scorched pizzelles EMOTIONAL RANGE: heated/flighty #MJMfashionGuide 12675
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 21/09/2026[phone call] MJM: Hey, superstar; how are you? What’s going on? YOUNG TEEN NIECE: I’m great. Getting into bucatini lately. MJM: Oh, awesome! 2540
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 21/09/2026WHAT: Mulberry (?!?) (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: kissing in an airlock or closing your compact & saying, “I maintain this human form the best I can, but it is tedious.” IF IT WERE A SCENT: city crosswalk, morning, one side to the other EMOTIONAL RANGE: 😐/🫤/😏 #MJMfashionGuide 6641
Reposted by Michael Jay McClureGretchen von Tongeln @metalligretch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Argyle helps me focus. 12411
Reposted by Michael Jay McCluredesigngeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Helmet Newton - 1994 Antonio Banderas. 0316
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/09/2026WHAT: Simone Rocha (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: ironic half-smiling or when papà has foolishly let your estate to parvenus & you must live at your sister’s & it’s fine until you see the sailor whose marriage proposal you rejected! IF IT WERE A SCENT: new saddle EMOTIONAL RANGE: ❤️🔥/💖 #MJMfashionGuidea 7897
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I had to visit someone in the hospital (everything is fine) &, baby, I’m a hospital 11*. At one point, a nurse named Nicky walked into the room of the person I was visiting, yogurt in hand, looked me in the eye, & said, “Do you want a snack?” #HeatedHospital 3695
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/09/2026WHAT: Steve O Smith (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: having a banana split or putting your hand on the surface of your bathroom mirror to find it’s permeable, a portal—& you shimmy through IF IT WERE A SCENT: wet ink spilled on a willow branch EMOTIONAL RANGE: protean/abstracted #MJMfashionGuide 10925