a ceasar salad and a gin martini while reading opulent tips before an afternoon at moma girl-who-is-going-to-be-ok.gif

Touched by Rachel Tashjian’s style dispatch about Talese night for Opulent Tips ❤️🗞️

Jane Birkin's Birkin just sold for 10 million bucks. Are we living in an era of it-girl inflation? Gift link! wapo.st/3Ima45g

I’ve been thinking about this, and I believe what’s happening in the fashion auction space is much bigger than it-girls. There are couture and antique garments very much not-worn by it girls going for astounding, way-over-estimate prices at auction. Collectors are going wild.

this is how god sends a new Vogue editor to earth

How did the prairie dress morph from a symbol of feminist empowerment to a uniform for young conservatives? New by me wapo.st/45bgV9F

"There is still a desire for figures who can point us, and our attention spans, to what is worth watching, buying, talking about or pondering." Delighted to have my Condé book considered by one of my favorite critics, Rachel Tashjian Wise: washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/… via The Washington Post

Magazine editors used to be gatekeepers. Do we need them anymore? via Rachel Tashjian Wise wapo.st/3GPdmgY [gift link]

Philo, who is now 51, is making the 50-something woman, with all her eccentricities and anxieties and confidence, fashion’s trendsetter, or even soothsayer. “I’m a grown-ass woman, and her clothes make me feel like a grown-up,” said Nasr wapo.st/46sQ4YS

me on Mrs. Prada doing nightgowns as day clothes: “It’s a woman taking things that are assigned to a particular lane in life, and recontextualizing them in a way that’s very naughty or mischievous or arrogant,” observed Tashjian cnn.com/2025/07/29/sty…

Sally Jenkins's goodbye note is, like, better than anything I have ever written.

Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the The Washington Post: The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work right now, under the Trump admin's resignation program w/ Meryl Kornfield Laura Meckler wapo.st/3IRXIlK

the perfect lede anecdote washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

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On flip-flops and the popped collar Abercrombie mentality taking over fashion wapo.st/4ooneiW

New: Trump admin is NOT planning to require health insurers to cover IVF, sources say, in retreat from 2024 campaign pledge Another apparent L from this admin for the conservative natalists

the room was spinning until i got the OPULENT TIPS email

just sent out a new Opulent Tips.... it's about the most important shower curtain in the world

Rachel Tashjian Wise and OT stokes my vintage obsession but I never want to buy menswear. Only womenswear. Like, Tuleh and Behnaz Sarafpour.