Not even the man who brought Carrie Bradshaw to screen could have engineered a plot line so ludicrous as that of Lexus , an ascendant knitwear designer with a collection of expensive shoes, and Josh, a man with the moustache of an amateur poet. A tragic encounter played out in TikTok explainers, theirs is a cautionary tale of just how low dating in can bring you: a tinderbox of good looks and deceit and low-stakes theft and internet melodrama.
And all this around an innocuous pair of Tabi-toed Mary-Janes. For the uninitiated, I recommend watching this video and then this video , but here is an abridged version of what year-old Lexus says went down between she and her Tinder date Josh: they swipe right, bump into one another on the street, and begin exchanging messages. He leaves the next morning β taking a pair of her Tabis with him. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
By this point, Josh has blocked Lexus which is strange, but not unusual given the disposable culture of online dating , not long after deleting his number from her phone while pretending to find a Spotify playlist which is strange and unusual. Within the space of a few hours, the algorithm has beamed her hastily-filmed confessional onto the FYPs of more than 26, people, among them Josh, who maintains his innocence and begs Lexus to delete the video.
Lexus then sends Josh an Instagram screenshot of his now-ex-girlfriend wearing the same Mary-Janes. He gave off this moody, quiet, artsy vibe and that is appealing. It is a crime of passion fired in the coals of High Fashion Twitter. And as overwhelming as becoming an overnight microcelebrity has been for Lexus β not to mention the slut-shaming she has had to deal with in her DMs β it has proven a boon to her fashion brand, Maddi and Danii.
Here, Lexus gives the latest on the Tinder Swiper saga, and details her future plans within the fashion industry. People told me that there would be tears, but I just laughed. This is a movie? This is ridiculous! At the end of the day, they are just shoes and I would have saved up for a new pair because I am a bad bitch and I need my Tabis. A lot of my friends and random people are in the comments fighting against the misogynists and the slut-shamers.
