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Well hello and

welcome to some of the thoughts that passed through my brain this week.

“The Hundred” is so perfect: it’s exclusive and insecure at the same time. (for my Succession people).

There’s beauty in digression, in rhythm, and in the complexity of the individual, so abandon the idea of perfection.

Shall I venture into crocheting or the art of Ikebana?

And just like that n.45 was indicted, Gwynny WASPed the hell out of conviction in Utah and the world ended with a screeching halt. My IG feed seemed infected by videos of Jane Birkin showing her eponymous bag with a lot of dangling trinkets as if it was something revolutionary and genius and I decided to take a 2-min social media hiatus just to trick the freaking algorithm. Life is hard but goes on.

Then in the US, we had the TikTok guy grilled by a Congress commission because of China and data and firewalls and shit. Bigger pressure on Congress to regulate A.I. in a week when the Pope showed up in a white puffer holding a to-go cappuccino cup (no seriously, he was in the hospital with a respiratory infection). Apparently, yes, brands use artificial intelligence to help projections and buy for the next season, but V. Friedman, as always, made a point:

“the department store problem.” […] an issue designers bring up all the time. That is, store buyers want to order only what sold the season before, rather than take a risk on a new style.

Honestly, again with this thing of uniformity, trends, over-production, and over-consumption

Yet, what is so special about fashion […] is the unexpected breakthrough; the clothes you didn’t know you wanted, […] It’s the “don’t give them what they want; make them want what you give them” axiom.

And the story goes on, no right or wrong, just c o m m o n s e n s e.

I lovE

Un caffè al volo. Everything spring, like violets, rainfalls, wild asparagus, khaki suede, and raincoats. Il budino di riso. The smell of freshly cut grass. NYC fire escapes and summer. Patchouli.

That coat thing

And the hi-low alligator bag + Teva-like sandals.

I hate

People chewing. Being a wedding guest. People that cannot thank you, because they will never be good colleagues. Anything March Madness, first of all, because I don’t speak sport and it’s boring. Department stores. Summers in Miami.

“Do you exercise?”

ME

ITALIAN WATERS

Catch of the Day

Il mare d’inverno, the sea in the winter is a state of mind. The beach clubs are closed, but you go for a walk for an hour of sun, salsedine, dunes, and foamy waves on the shore, you remember all the shenanigans, because of course, you still go to the same part of the beach, even if everything is barricaded, because the killer always comes back on the crime scene.

Why you should churn on news instead of doomscrolling

Select your sources.

Read the room like an observer from the balcony.

Absolutely don’t watch TV (I don’t own a TV nor a cable subscription since 2014)

It’s a crazy world out there and how do you keep yourself updated? I mean two years of a pandemic, Harry Styles, a war, the Johnny Depp trial, the IPCC reports, Wordle, Succession

I READ.

I selectively choose - a synonym for a process of elimination that is as refined as a bottle of Tignanello.

I hand write notes everywhere and use different colors (never black).

I don’t listen to voice messages longer than 30 seconds after which they become monologues. Last time I listened to a voice message was in the machine, I lived in Milan, circa 1993.

I am analog and my memory is selective, as in “I don’t listen” type of selective, as my daughter would say. Thing is, if it doesn’t stimulate any sensorial or visual interest, I move on and leave space for something … more interesting, that is.

When I am 100% invested in one news, topic, story I write notes, text message “For me” to remember to research by the end of the day and you’ll hear me talking about it at nauseam. Until the next one.

Here’s how it goes on an usual day:

BREAKFAST is for NEWSand coffee

  • world news - first Zelensky and last Zelensky, in between international, national, politics, social, very little local unless it’s something socially relevant like reproductive rights, homelessness and voter suppression.

  • fashion news - Italy (kill me!), international and national.


keep calm and move on

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keep calm and move on 〰️

LUNCH is for INSTAGRAM while in the parking lot

Abandon all hope ye who enter here. We pop culture, gossip, snoop, scoop, stalk, DM, chat, comment and casually post something.


DINNER is for RESEARCH and Johnny Depp trial

  • this is a free-for-all, it could go from the NYT Cooking to reading in between the lines of the latest greenwashing inventions of the fashion industry, or researching for an assignment because even if I graduated from my Masters program, I do love perfecting, rewriting, exchanging notes.

Is this easy?

NO

Is it overwhelming?

FOR SURE

Why do I do it?

Because I had to find an antidote that would prevent me from being bombarded by news at rapid fire, like fast fashion or fast food.