"It’s now a weekly ritual I look forward to; a remedy for a year that's left me feeling horribly astray and dumb and suspended, like I’m dangling upside down with a knot around my ankles."

After five years of controversy, could Virginie Viard's departure from CHANEL reveal anything about the misogynistic traits of the fashion business?

“Knife” has also become this sort of gospel to which I return every now and then, to find sense in the fact that, for a brief moment, I too ceased to exist.