Welcome to Manqué, where failing to become what one might have been is something to embrace. Here, we believe that it’s OK to sometimes take things at face value — that personal taste doesn’t always warrant a defense. Joan Didion said it best when she wrote that “to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself and finds no one at home.”