THE LIST: Permission to Wear White Again?

Trenches! Windbreakers! Pink! Polos! Pink polos! A Spring trend report.

PINK! This Liffner turnlock clutch is heaven.

• Maybe it’s all the tulips in my house right now, but I’m especially into PINK this spring. Liffner has a powdery lizard turnlock clutch that hearkens to the glam boudoir vibe of The Grill’s ladies’ room (a suede option from Khaite if you fear no liquid), while Westman Atelier just launched their blockbuster Baby Cheeks stick in a peppy shade of watermelon. Donni’s taffeta silk pants somehow make more sense with a perfect white tee than a fancy shoe. Toteme has slim and crispy shirting. Attersee has a bubblegum cotton shirtdress that’s already restocking after an early-season sellout. Even Maria McManus is getting in on the season's shade: her new denim collaboration with AGOLDE centers the color on slouchy, oversized silhouettes — my favorite is this shirt. Or maybe just a little something, like a tiny Hermes change purse or the wink of pink embroidery on Sezane’s enduring Conrad t-shirt?

• Speaking of pink, is the new Chanel giving fashion permission to be fun again?

• It’s officially TRENCH WEATHER. Some of us wait all year for this important but fleeting moment. Today I learned from Christina Grasso that “it’s called a trench coat because it’s what people would wear during WWI while literally (digging) in the trenches in the rain.” Fashion, you’re the weirdest! Anyway, Toteme seems to have cornered the market this season with a panoply of options; fire engine red, caped, car coat, slinky satin… taste the rainbow, baby.

• Kallmeyer has finally given us that tremendously cool scarf blazer from last season’s runway. I do love a subversively preppy navy when the weather warms. If scarves aren’t your thing, RUADH has a slick riff on the style in a decisive cut.

Attersee’s Terrain jacket in technical satin.

• Speaking of outerwear, if last spring was dominated by the barn jacket, this one is all about the windbreaker. Options? The limit does not exist. Rohe! Attersee! TWP! Saint Laurent! Idk if this Dries is technically more trench-y, but the vibes qualify.

• Doen just issued a sexy collab with optical brand Garrett Leight — the retro “Ingenue” style cries out for a headscarf and a 1960’s convertible. After the bonnet/babushka winter we had, I definitely feel a headscarf summer brewing…

• Easter is right around the bend, which means if you’re old-fashioned and obey “the rules”, permission to wear white is nearly granted. But none of that stuffy attitude here: why wait? I like Tibi’s weirdo exposed-seam jeans (which closed the spring runway), the architecture of FFORME and Rohe’s sculptural cotton pieces, and the dorky-cool, twee way The Row has styled their evergreen Liisa pumps with a white sock.

• I’m headed back to Palm Beach, where it’s always Easter Sunday… at least judging by the way women dress there. And while I’m all for a (vintage!) Lilly or Pucci moment, I think the coolest girls are taking the splashy colors and prints of coastal Florida into their own hands, embracing dress brands like Alemais, Cala de la Cruz, Zankov, and Temily, or leaning into their sportier side with clubby (bath and tennis club, not night club) bits from Prada and High Sport. I would sooner have a lobotomy than wear a print in most cases, so catch me in lightweight, resort-appropriate solids from Matteau, Alaia, and Khaite that will pull double-duty out East this summer.

• Polo shirts are really having a moment, aren’t they? I like the classic sportswear vibes of this High Sport number and this baby from Soft Goat, but the dangerously plunging neckline of this Prada would be so cool over a swimsuit if you got it like that.

• These look really hot on the foot. Same with these.

From The Row’s lookbook, their white Liisa pumps are styled with white socks.

• Emme Parsons’ new spring arrivals are all yum, but these in particular are singing my song for their ability to morph from a day to evening shoe.

• I guess it was inevitable that Desert Vintage would collaborate with The Row. But with their keen sourcing, they have also countered the argument of every person who has complained to me that there’s no such thing as a cool puffer. Boom. (See also.)

• So… Gala pants, but make them shorts? I’m in.

• I want this for my wedding day SO MUCH.

• The Rare Finds section of The Real Real is really something. Like, hello?

• I would like to carry a bitch around in this.

• Thank you, God, Allah, Jesus, The Universe, The Divine, and Dianna Cohen for Crown Affair’s repackaged dry shampoo in a cute purse-sized container!!!

• I dare you to wear one of these.

• You’re about to see these on every Row-clad minimalist influencer out there (complimentary).

• Has anyone tried Paire? Please report back.

• My parting style challenge to you this week: how about a little electric blue? Maybe like this, or this, or this? If you take the dare, lmk.