Happy Friday, everyone, and I hope this shorter week treated you well. I am back from my Italian vacation and thank you so much to everyone for all their great recommendations — we had a great time! Extra big thanks to Heather for holding down the fort in my absence.
Over at Drinks With Broads, we took Tuesday off thanks to the holiday, but Thursday’s newsletter was juicy: Heather reviews Sirens, I took on The Batman, and I also ran down everything I bought for this trip and how I liked it.
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Related! At The Adventurine: Carrie Bradshaw’s Most Memorable Jewels on ‘Sex and the City’
And, at Town & Country: How the Sirens House Was Built. Logistics!
This is a really really interesting piece at Vulture: “Fame and Frustration On the New Media Circuit: Publicity used to be so straightforward. Now, for stars and their teams, ‘no one’s sure what works.” NO SHIT.
Did you catch our chat about serums last week? We rounded up EVERYONE’S suggestions from the comments into a Serums Collection at our ShopMy. You can see and shop them here!
Fascinating, via Reuters: Italy’s mafia abandoning rivalries to join forces, report says. TEAMWORK!
This is a heckuva story, at Smithsonian: The Stunning Search for the Remains of Fallen WWII Airmen: After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them
Lainey reports: (Un)Happy Anniversary to Tom Cruise?: How the couch jump changed Tom Cruise and celebrity coverage in the 2000s.
Oh, man! At The Guardian: The disaster preppers who were proven right: ‘We lived in the car for five days’. (I will read anything about disaster prepping. Remember the time we found out Josh Duhamel is a doomsday prepper?!?!)
Also via Lainey: The Taylor Swift Subpoena: Volunteer or Nothingburger?
Catching up on stuff I missed while I was gone, and this is a good read at Discoursted: The Bezos Cannes-tastrophe.
J.Crew got a bunch of new stuff in this week and I must confess I think it’s….really good? What a delight. (I speak as a longtime J.Crew aficionada here!) I had a $25 gift certificate from the brand for my birthday and I put it toward…and I recognize this might be kooky…these jelly fisherman sandals. I don’t know, I just really love them! I’ll report back after I actually get them. I was not allowed to have jelly sandals in the late 80s so now that I’m 50, I’m leaning in.
Uhhhhh Sydney Sweeney is selling bars of soap made of her own bathwater. What is happening here. [USA Today]
I’m also mildly obsessed with this J.Crew tote bag — allegedly for men, for Father’s Day, but I love it for ME. Except I do not need any more tote bags, my god, Jessica, get a grip!!!!! (But I don’t have one with a strap like that…)
You know I love a book list! Here’s 15 of the best for this summer, according to Big Salad (that’s Joanna Goddard’s newsletter).
Great, at A Tiny Apt., one of my fave Substacks: 9 Chic Ways to Wear a Button-Down. I love this suggestion to pick up oversized button-downs at thrift stores.
Love this round-up of items with fish on them, at The Stripe. Stop me before I buy a fish purse! (I also just realized that J.Crew tote upstream — no pun intended — has a fish on it. I’m all about fish now? Who knew.)
Another GREAT house at House and Garden UK: The joyfully eccentric London house of designer Phoebe Hollond.
The NYT explains: How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself. A good aim for most of us, probably.
Pajiba asks, Who the Hell Asked For the Ezra Miller Comeback?
This is the kind of low-stakes, silly stuff I’m in the mood for, at Socialite Life: Tom Cruise has a very unique way of eating popcorn.
Fun, as usual, at Whatever, Nevermind — and timely! WTF Do I Wear To a Wedding With a Made-Up Dress Code?
This is ALSO fun, at Eater: COCKTAIL JELL-O SHOTS!!
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