Margot's Material World

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07/14/19 • 60 min

A conversation with Margot Morales Tanjutco about clothes and self expression, Instagram fashion, materialism and millennial life, having a personal aesthetic, Indian film star Ranveer Singh, and whether austerity is necessary to save the planet. Margot is a comedian and writer/ filmmaker whose musical about capitalism, Vanity Fair Enough, was acclaimed at MICF 2019.

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