She joined fashion Twitter at 12, became a target of the internet at 18, and has never stopped insisting that clothing has meaning
“Socialist socialite” sounds like an oxymoron, but it has a long and uneasy lineage. Friedrich Engels bankrolled Karl Marx with money from his family’s Manchester textile mill. Jessica Mitford walked away from the English aristocracy and joined the Communist Party. In 2021, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a “Tax the Rich” gown to the Met Gala, to applause and accusations of hypocrisy in equal measure. Critics have always asked the same thing: is the social capital working for the cause, or is the cause working for capital?
Ella Devi is now fielding that question herself.