Magasin’s pop-up newsletter-within-a-newsletter, where we go on the ground to suss out hot shopping gossip from scenes of interest: New York Fashion Week, Day 3.
10a ** J.Hannah** preview at Casino — antique jewelry given the luxury treatment. Customizable wax seals and a ring designed to hold strands of woven hair are inspired by antique silhouettes and made of majority recycled metals and gems. -
12p ** Lafayette 148** presentation — Americana-themed like so many other collections this season (it was especially in the air yesterday on the 25th anniversary of 9/11); in this case, inspired by CD Emily Smith’s grandmother’s quilts -
12:30p ** Jamie Haller** presentation — Jamie as you know her, and as you don’t (yet)! A pair of bedazzled jeans threw my sense of familiarity with the brand’s game off balance, and yet I don’t pretend to anticipate everything it releases: It’s an everyday, wearable line with plot twists. -
1p ** Made Some Sportswear** preview
8p ** Eckhaus Latta** show — I was thinking about / looking at the boys, reflecting on how enviable it must be for a big brand with enormous commercial pressure to distill the Venice Beach bum or the Santa Monica skater kid into a likable, desirable, sellable mood. Eckhaus did it without a trace of effort, and rightly ID’ed it as the thing to want to be right now. Their girls are all sexually awakened booksmart big sisters; intimidating and hot. -
9:30p ** J.Crew** x
Lafayette 148 top, $248 / Dries Van Noten skirt (similar here, $850) / Carven bag, $250 / Le Monde Beryl shoes, $725 / Polo Sport Oval Sunglasses, $103 ~~$166~~
Alaïa hooded dress (similar here, $3,180) / vintage Andrew Marc leather jacket (similar here, $248 ~~$310~~) / Gia Borghini x Pirrie Wright shoes (similar here, $540) / Prada Cleo bag, $3,500
You should have seen my face when the first model turned the corner into my section at Eckhaus Latta and I 10x zoomed onto her
Maryam Nassir ZadehOlympia wedges—the shoe that inspired me to start this newsletter 6 years ago, and whose in-group signaling powers in the time before Dimes Square were at their absolute peak. The brands are close friends: Eckhaus was incubated in Maryam’s showroom, which ran concurrent to her store, so it should feel unsurprising. It’s just that, after the height of MNZ made way to the height of, which made way to the height ofThe RowPhoebeorCelineorDries, it’s a concentrated kind of nostalgia to see them back in the heart of downtown—nowsold on Net-A-Porter. It’s the second coming.To the ever-running conversation about status hand soaps, I submit that the private bathroom at
TotemestocksPerfumer H’s Rain Wood washandlotion.Khaitemay have reimagined the Marlboro with itsbranded cig boxes, butJ.Crewcan claim the Cuban cigar. Add this to the “smoking is so back” in fashion discourse. Cigars are gross but every boy I know will smoke one if given the chance anyway.A whole new Soho has emerged this week with store openings from
,Róhe,Rúadh,Magda Butrym,Biologique Recherchecoming soon,Victoria Beckham, others I’m sure I’m forgetting…before, the only stores forNature of ThingsuswereBomiandand theAflalostore whose architecture makes it actually worth visiting (not like others internationally, which people will insist youPradahaveto go to—you don’t, you have Prada at home). But design is evidently paramount to these new brands, eager to prove themselves culturally with it to their customers. Róhe’s space is particularly wow, with my all-time dreamJeanneretdesk,Ingo Maurerpaper lamps, a Met-caliber 15th C Flemish painting…An excellent date idea from Brad Ogbonna is to hit up an Upstate or Connecticut estate sale through
estatesales.net. You may end up at an unlisted Midcentury design house with a bathtub that has feet (zoom in!) and buy original art from a late artist couple for next to no money.
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