DSCENE Magazine is proud to announce the launch of Doric Order, a new weekly column written by Co-founder and Features Director Katarina Doric. Trained as an architect and known for her editorial precision, Doric brings a structural clarity to cultural criticism, cutting through the surfaces of fashion, design, politics, and identity to expose the frameworks beneath.
The column takes its title from the Doric order of classical architecture, strict, measured, and unadorned. In Katarina’s hands, this reference becomes both a personal signature and a critical lens. Doric Order moves through the visual codes that shape modern life, asking who they serve, how they control, and what they conceal.
I’m less interested in beauty as an ideal, and more in who decides the terms.
Each piece traces the quiet mechanisms through which power operates: a beige wardrobe passed off as sophistication, an apartment curated for invisibility, a face managed into acceptability through skincare and silence. Doric writes with focus and intent, treating the visual field, fashion campaigns, interiors, body rituals, courtrooms, as a series of constructed spaces where gender, class, and control are constantly enforced.
This is a column about how the visual becomes ideological. It looks closely at the performance of neutrality, the architecture of modern femininity, and the pressure to remain composed in the face of exhaustion, age, or autonomy. Doric speaks from the experience of womanhood in her thirties, but her analysis refuses generational clichés. There is no nostalgia here, no softened edges, no patience for cultural amnesia.
The inaugural piece, “The Feminist Apartment is Empty,” will appear online next Friday. It examines the aesthetics of the new minimalist feminism and the strange expectation that independence should be silent, clean, and above all, visually pleasing.
Doric Order is about seeing the scaffolding, not just the façade.
With Doric Order, Katarina Doric offers a sustained critique of the systems we’re told to accept as taste. The column opens a new space in DSCENE for radical clarity, written with the precision of someone who knows how structures are drawn, built, and held up, until someone dares to question the foundation.
The column will be published every Friday, with a preview featuring Katarina’s top picks from the week available each Thursday through the DSCENE newsletter.
Katarina Doric is the Co-founder and Features Director of DSCENE Magazine. Educated as an architect, she has spent over a decade shaping the magazine’s cultural voice across fashion, design, art, and identity. Her writing moves between theory and intuition with rare control. Doric Order marks her first regular column, offering a new format for her ongoing interrogation of power, beauty, and control.
