Fray Magazine exists to examine what’s coming next in the world. Originally born out of an idea to examine our own individual fashion in a world where, as Glenn Close put it in “The Devil Wears Prada,” the company chooses the sweater for you (interesting note: I have neither read the book nor seen the entire movie yet I still reference it – think on that), the magazine grew to encompass the majority of life itself. How do we write in a world where there are two story types: “a stranger came to town” and “we went one a trip?” How do we discuss reality in a world that has been through post-modern philosophy? How can we examine the façade of a building that is all glass? What comes next in a world where everything has already been done? How do we exist in a world where Perez Hilton is cited as a credible source on Yahoo!?

This magazine attempts to address these and other similar questions by looking at the youth market on intellectualism and culture. We will look at a pre-digested world and re-digest it, examine what has come before us and how that affects what will come after, and delve into present, emerging trends with all the fervor of Hemmingway on safari. We live the life; we wear the clothes; we listen to the music; we’ve read the books, seen the films, gained the necessary base to digest the digested with a new intellectual enzyme, a fresh look. With everyone saying, “It’s all been done,” we’ll search out what’s next and give it a voice that says, “We’re here, don’t fear, get used to it.”

Perhaps you’d like facts or some sort of detail. To that I say, as the great Homer Simpson once did, “Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true.” I’ll indulge you anyway. We plan to publish original content exploring various trends in culture and thought, reviews of the latest (and most dated) in literature, art, fashion, philosophy, design, etc., as well as our own forays into creativity. We hope to branch into the spheres of technology and politics and travel and email newsletters. We have large plans to fight off the impending doom of the intellectual world (note: not really an impending doom, nor do we plan to fight it off – our goal is to the contrary, to report and imagine what is coming - doom or not).

So enjoy, and as Grady Tripp says, “You have to keep with it. You have to read on.”