10 Ways to Style Spring's Strongest Staples
Plus: new in beauty, the next "it" book, summer whites, and the market's best dresses.
Greetings, earthlings! That sentiment feels apropos after weeping so many tears over our heroic astronauts last week. It was nice to feel proud of our country for one fleeting moment. I haven’t felt that way since I leaned over to my French friend Melanie Masarin at the Beyoncé concert last summer and said “Dare I say I feel… patriotic?”
Aside from being overly invested in the moonbound journey of four strangers (a much healthier fixation than say, Scamandal or whatever we’re calling the Summer House debacle… poor Carl, he’s a mess) I’ve been a social butterfly now that sunshine is touching my shoulders again.
The Love List’s team is growing, and we’ve welcomed a FT Marketing Director, Lauren Kranc, to the fold, a co-hire with Cassandra Grey (she and I have something in the works too). Thank you to our buddy Emily Sundberg and the highly effective Feed Me job board.
With the extra bandwidth, I have the time to attack some of the loftier goals we have for the back half of the year. After my wedding in July, we’ll kick off anniversary celebrations (The Love List is 5 years old, ahh!) which Lauren will help spearhead. I decided to throw her into the fire feet-first and send her to New York Bridal Fashion Week, which she crushed — recap here.
Meanwhile, I still don’t have a wedding dress, but I did find some other worthy closet additions at the city’s best vintage show, A Current Affair, over the weekend.
I found a stunning Chanel brooch as one of my “something blues”, a 1996 runway Donna Karan capelet, a wildly cool 90’s Chanel khaki trench and trouser set, a perfectly patinated Jil Sander leather car coat, a just-enough worn-in David Bowie concert tee from the 70s, and some other goodies I’m saving for my wedding day, which is drawing ever closer (3 month countdown!). Since the wedding has a rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, and after party, I have a lot of opportunity to change into different looks.
Despite it all, I’ve still had plenty of time to do market work. Here’s what’s noteworthy this week.
I had a restorative kiki with some girlfriends last weekend that led to some plotting (Gigi Burris x The Love List coming sooooon) and then a wonderful dinner the other night hosted by Megan Alida Strachan for her friend Laura Rubin, who just published an excellent book on one of my favorite pastimes, journaling. The Big Unlock is her guidebook to the simple profundity of working through your feelings on paper. (Speaking of Meg, the new Dorsey drop is beautiful.)
Summer must be nigh, because Club Moda is back! The exclusive Juju Vera earrings are beckoning me — they scream Coastal France honeymoon. Would look great with a generous swish of Westman Atelier’s new Sun Tone Bronzing Creme. (The phone cords are also kind of amazing).
Métier now has a permanent home in New York. Hello, 142 Wooster.
Two very different holidays are on the horizon, depending on your observance: Mother’s Day and 4/20. For the latter, I’ve been a big proponent of California-style sobriety as of late, opting for things with a very subtle buzz and no hangover, like Cann (the new elderflower is delicious but I’m a forever roadie packet girl) and The High Confectionery’s Marionberry Sleep Gummies.
For the former, I think about my own Mom, who loves two things: cooking and being cozy on her porch. Swaddled up in this, maybe? Full Mother’s Day gift guide coming post haste…
Sleeper brand alert for the minimalists and CBK-devotees: Aussie label YANETH.
I think we might be doing Puka shells again (????)
I hate to tell you that this $76 (!) deodorant has been illuminating for me and my highly sensitive skin…
Now that warm weather is here, I’m officially switching my oily scalp over from shampoo and conditioner to salt scrub and conditioning mask.
Holy shit. This under your sunscreen, trust me. (Add this perennial favorite to your cart while you’re there.)
If you have a relative named Chip or Muffy, this is going to be your jam.
A spring sale at Porta, you say?
Your vintage finds sound next levellll. Congrats on the new hire and expanding!