Weekend Update

1. Today, sharing one of my sale picks: the perfect white jumpsuit from Rachel Comey, now 40% off.

I’ve finally come around to jumpsuits. I don’t know what happened, but I accepted that yes, I will just have to also take off the top portion of my outfit if I have to go the bathroom. If that’s what it takes to look more easily polished and not have to tuck in shirts, then I’m willing to live with it. This Rachel Comey is the perfect cropped length, and the cream color means that it’s basically year round. There are so so many good sale goodies right now – please share your finds!

2. I have been waiting for this: Caity Weaver’s account of the royal wedding, via The NY Times. So good. I love how she describes her own fascination with Meghan Markle. Yes yes yes. Of course afterwards I visited her official Duchess webpage for the first time. I didn’t know she went to Northwestern (tiger mom approves), but the soup kitchen talk (though admirable) was a little painful to read for some reason. I think something strange with the wording. 

3. I have a very good series of articles here.  These can be read in any order. First, I’ve got Hollywood Reporter’s great deep dive about how Allison Mack came to be the right hand woman in a nefarious sex cult. Then, read up on Vanity Fair’s article, published eight years (!!) ago, about the Bronfman sisters and their on relationship with Nxivm.

4. I’d like to hear your thoughts on this NY Times on Karl Lagerfeld, Fashions Shock Jock. I had no idea about some of the statements the article discusses. Of course, I just posted about my new Chanel clutch earlier this week. I don’t know how I feel about it all.

5. This week, I absolutely tore through my reading: Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou.

As some of you know, I have been WAITING for this book. Ever since the original WSJ expose on Theranos came out (read here), I’ve been waiting for this.  I pre-ordered months back and was giddy when they brought up the release date. It’s amazing, when you think that this article is what took down what was at one point, a multi-billion dollar valued company. Being in Silicon Valley, you are so surrounded by all these unicorns. They are these huge, powerful companies all around you. I remember at one point, when I had just had my son, thinking of maybe applying to Theranos when I returned to work. It just seemed like such a hot shot company. It seemed invincible. Where would it be if there wasn’t a reporter (and paper) willing to take it on? How many patient’s lives would have been damaged? Because if you read this book, you will see just how flagrant their disrespect was for the truth, how little regard they had for accuracy and putting people’s lives at risk, and how far they were willing to go to preserve their fraud. Highly, highly recommend Bad Blood.