1. I said I would not get any handbags this year (we’ll see) but this Nordstrom one is so inexpensive and cute and I feel like hits a certain sweet spot in style and price:
Don’t you think that this is something that a more expensive brand would do? Not like Hermes expensive, but maybe Simon Miller level, and it would sell at Net-A-Porter for like $400. Anyway, I love the little handle detail and the soft knit and basically this looks like the perfect easy vacation bag. Pretty!
2. Loved this piece, from The Cut – To All The Moms I’ve Ignored Before. I have a few posts on parenthood coming up but for anybody who wants a good before/after view – read this article! And by the way, if you enjoyed this – I recommend Meaghan O’Connell’s book, And Now We Have Everything –
3. A great piece, via Vanessa Friedman for The NY Times, about what it means for New York that Lord and Taylor and Henri Bendels have both closed their flagship stores.
4. This is a fascinating piece, via Panjiba, about a particular Instagram “influencer,” Caroline Calloway, and her business and a series of workshops she rather messily planned and how it all came undone. I have to share that I was following the original Twitter thread on this since the beginning; I had no idea who she was before this but that isn’t surprising, I’m very out of date on IG celebrities in general. Every time I’m on, I find someone else whose style I like and who I haven’t heard of and they always have a zillion followers.
5. This week I finished The Billionaire Raj, by James Crabtree.
The book bills itself as a “journey through India’s gilded age” which is exactly what it is – an in depth, hugely informative primer about how India’s massive wealth accumulation in the last few decades, and who it is largely gone to. I do have to admit that when I first picked up the book it was really for the tales of the so-called “Bollygarchs” (love this term) – I wanted to hear about their rises and falls and everything in between. And though this book has that it is really at its heart (I thought) a more academic study on the country’s wealth policies and how it has created some massive disparities and what might be done. If you want to learn more about modern India, I highly recommend The Billionaire Raj
3 Comments
Anna
January 18, 2019 at 10:27 amWe traveled to India last year and stayed at Bombay for a few days. The contrast between the rich and poor was astonishing. I’ve since been fascinated by the country and wanted to read more about it. I’m trying to get my hands on Behind the Beautiful Forever, which you recommended earlier. This one will be the next! (My reading list has piled up so high, haha).
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Katherine
January 18, 2019 at 1:54 pmDo the Beautiful Forevers book first, it is one of my favorites.
S in HK
January 21, 2019 at 4:54 amThat black bag looks like a great find, practical and inexpensive indeed. BTW, did you read about Blake Nordstrom’s untimely passing (Nordstrom co-president)? The tributes posted by customers, friends, employees are so inspirational. I feel people like him are few and far between.
I enjoyed the store closing article (though it made me very nostalgic). I remember Henri Bendel before they got rid of the clothes, the third party brands. The store on 5th was magical. To see it devolve was so sad.