I've been talking about it a lot * I'm in New York week
A string of opinionated random thoughts.
The most gratifying revelation of the Rule of Five experiment in my closet happened with the winter wardrobe. I have always maintained a winter section because you never know, you must be prepared for an impromptu weekend trip and not look like an amateur who pulls stuff that smells like mothballs out of the storage like in Miami on those three days of the year when temps go down to the 60s. Believe me, ain’t pretty.
Almost 30 years after moving to Miami from Milan, I passed some of my gorgeous designer items to my daughter and sold what she wouldn’t wear. I kept replenishing the basic cashmeres (only vintage is the best cashmere), Heattech shenanigans (I score good on Poshmark, you can quote me on that and call me to help you), corduroy, suede, beanies, scarves, shoes, and serious winter coats (my most beloved Loden coat from an estate sale).
But this year was down to business: can’t buy anything, but have enough to pack light for a few days of cold as tits, maybe rain, maybe snow, walk a lot, move with the subway which is already the equivalent of being menopausal, frigid out and bloody steamy inside, but if you ARE menopausal, it’s murder on the dance floor. So yes, now I carry a gorgeously decorated Korean fabric fan courtesy of my daughter who witnessed my thing happening one too many times on the train.
So enter these.
I bought these Moon Boot like Isabel Marant on Poshmark pre-pandemic and they stood like nutcrackers in the closet, and now they have become my traveling companions equivalent to sneakers in the spring.
Will talk about the down puffer and the upcycling project of one of my father’s Barbours and that astrakhan coat that lives in my brother’s perfectly stabilized temperature basement another time. I should prob do a blog post because a very important new factor in my Rule of Five life has entered the chat, that is
1 in, 2 out
Love
My DMs filled with previews of Lessico Familiare’s Paris Dover Market star-studded debut, and by that, I mean Carla Sozzani and Olivier Saillard heavy Fashion caliber star-studded!
Talking about planned obsolescence, not because I am a geek, but because it stops people in the trainwreck of their TikTok thoughts and for 3 seconds they think before buying shit.
Still looking for the word for the year, so far, PEACE looks like a leading contestant, as in that push to create order from chaos.
The following two quotes by Susan Sontag:
Never worry about being obsessive. Obsessive people make great art.
Do stuff. Pay attention. Attention is vitality: it connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager!
If I commit not to cut my hair for 6 months, do I set myself up for failure? I have always been a short curly hair unicorn in a town where keratinized long hair and extensions are the standard. Curls aren’t as easy to cut, they don’t hold a cut as well as straight hair. It’s hard to find a stylist who understands curls, and you have to accept that you can go in with a trim in mind but you will always leave the salon with a chop. But will I resist for 6 months? Considering I have to go for the color/gloss situation? Do you obsessively overthink like me?
The wardrobe in The Day of the Jackal
I don’t care
That white guy that killed the other white guy in Manhattan. I despise the non-contextualized hero-ification of a mentally impaired, trust-fund enabled individual, it deflects from the deeper underlying most atrocious problems in American living: absence of gun reform and healthcare. It hurts me when it’s mindlessly portrayed in Europe where they have free healthcare and strict gun laws.
Which of course comes to the TIME’s Person of the Year: what in the fuck were they thinking?
How do you say it in Italian?
Non si frigge mica con l’acqua! In English lands a bit flat, “we don’t fry with water” and doesn’t make that much sense. We say it when we want to say that of course we did something well, we know how to do it.
Say. That is some fine tablesetting you've got there. It's very fantastical-looking. It makes you wonder what kind of cake it is, too. (Just if you are bored.) And the flooring!
I would love to someday find that big-cat print in a nice velveteen. I dig the faux but it's too heavy for where I live.
That cape was amazing.
Relatable on the curly hair however I am a haircut twice a year person 😆. Agree that the right cut/hairstylist is like finding a unicorn.