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This roundup originally appeared in the Thursday, July 13, 2023, edition of theSecret Strategistnewsletter, a weekly email where we share the stuff our staff — plus a rotating cast of writers, design-world people, and various others with very good taste — would otherwise keep to themselves. If you want to get our picks straight to your inbox each week, sign uphere.
As editors of a shopping site and just a group of particularly obsessive shoppers, we unearth a lot ofreally good stuffon a really regular basis. We have a lot of eyes on the ground, internet and actual. But there’s not always a natural place to put all of the things we’ve found on the very site we work for — sometimes a lamp is really good and on sale and two of our really stylish editor’s friends have bought it in the last week, but there’s not much more to say about it than that.
That’s where this newsletter comes in: We’re creating a place for the very best stuff our staff turns up every week.
This Week’s List
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* Pendants are an especially challenging category to crack,especially if you don’t goNoguchi:One of our features editors just bought thisonefor the dining room after a long hunt.
* And speaking of a challenging category to crack:men’s shoes. Right now, we think: beat-upReeboks(as seen on Lichen’sEd Beand the artist Sam Falls), black-oiledBirkenstocks(as seen on all the men in London right now), andMephistos(as seen onChase Hall, who owns over 50 pairs).
*J.Crew’s simple black-string bikiniis suddenly looking very appealing. It’s (sorry!)a lot cheaperthan the similar-lookingNuswimorLidoversions. (Which one editor recently spotted all around a popular upstate swimming hole, along with many copies ofThe Guest.)
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* The best, easiest gift isthis cup(buy two). It’ll work for a wide variety of tastes, is not wildly expensive, and is justspecial.
* In general for homestuff these days, we say:Go trad, so you won’t get sick of your stuff in two years.Annie Meyers-Shyer(Nancy Meyers’s daughter) hasthis lampfrom Zara Home and says she’s “never gotten more compliments on a lamp in my life.”
* Get someBreuer merchwhile you still can.
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* We’ve noticed a bunch of coolupstatenew momsand a cohort of coolCopenhagennew momswearing this really great Australian maternity lineJuem. They don’t look like nursing bras — in a very appealing way.
* And we’re also seeing a lot ofred-and-orange carpets— our colleague Wendy Goodman got one for her brand-new apartment (fromAronson’s Floor Coverings), then we spottedonein health coach Daphne Javitch’s living room and another in Cap Beauty founder Kerrilynn Pamer’s home (hers is by Nordic Knots).
* It has come to our attention thatCalzuroscome in a really nice putty-brown color, perfect for clomping around the yard or just with 501’s.
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* For those actually tooling around the garden, Deborah Needleman told us about thismultipurposegarden bladefrom the Japanese brand Niwaki.
* Danish brandFlore Floremakes the perfectcropped-but-not-too-cropped, structured-but-not-too-structuredlong-sleeve. We thought Margaret Austin — former buyer for Opening Ceremony and Totokaelo and current proprietor of excellent Brooklyn-based shop Outline — discovered them first. (Outline’s been selling them for months; they’ve since migrated over to Ssense.) But it turns out she discovered themsecond.“I found it through my friend Carmen, who ownsCarmenin Amsterdam,” she says. “Flore Flore’s founder Flòrian is a good friend of hers, and I’m pretty sure she was the first to carry the brand. When I saw the pictures of the tees, I knew we needed them for Outline — it’s strangely difficult to find nice basics, quality- and silhouette-wise. They’ve been doing super-well. And Flòrian told me Hailey Bieber’s been wearing them recently.”
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* Or just buy aCapeziolong-sleeved leotard for $18 on Amazon; it’s really flattering. (And it comes in all differentstyles.)
Check These Out Too
Some online shops you may not have heard of but are really good.
*The Wax Apple(as always, buy thetheater shoesin as many colors as ya can)
*Studio Ashby(for those that have $300 to spend on acushion …)
*In Common With(it’s doing some interesting stuff withglasslately)
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