Why Don’t We Check In on Mindy Kaling?

I get that it benefits celebrities to maintain an Instagram presence in a way that it does not for me, so the motivations to produce regular fashion content may be different, but I admire that Mindy Kaling has had the energy to put on a pulled-together outfit for pretty much this entire year. My ability to muster a cute outfit from my own closet was already limited, and I’m camera shy, so obviously Mindy and I are not coming from the same starting square. But I’m just pleased I’ve worn jeans every day. Mindy, on the other hand, is actively providing Instagram sunshine.

This is Andrew Gn, one of my favorites, and possibly one of the first places I’d try to shop if someone dumped a suitcase of cash on my doorstep. It puts me in a good mood. It’s relaxing. I bet it smells like a Woods of Windsor store right out of the box, or the bag, or whatever one gets when one orders Andrew Gn.

I am going to disagree with this caption, and say that the girls in the movie who work at the art gallery all wear black or grey. She’s the girl in the movie who works in publishing, in either an unrealistically high position for her age and experience level, or an unrealistically high-paying job considering that she’s someone’s executive assistant. She’s basically Younger.

I think she looks cute, but I would be doing the same thing: I’d look at these pants, think, “MAYBE I can pull these off?”, and then, if I bought them, keep the tags on for a month and then concede that I will never actually have the confidence to wear them them in public. And if I’m REALLY on-brand, I’d miss the return window by 24 hours.

Ooh, repurposed accessories from the yellow outfit. I think they work, but only because the leopard blouse is under there to give her some hits of tan. The suit is DVF; the blouse, D&G. I bet you could get a leopard blouse from Bloomies for a thousand dollars less! Just saying.

Here in this jumpsuit, she looks like your floormate from your sophomore year in college who has her own Etsy store, and you’re kind of curious, but you can’t decide whether to order from her because you’ve seen too much, you know too much, and her fabrics remind you of a blanket you threw up one night while waiting for 2 a.m. pizza. (No, Mom, that is not autobiographical.)(Well, eating pizza at 2 a.m. is.)

D&G again. This at least, more than the blouse, is something relatively unique to them. If you’re going to do it, go big, I guess. What IS that over her crotch area? Is it a jester in Wellies, trying to do yoga? Is it something or someone riding something else? Why is it there? Why did D&G stamp a hard-to-decipher image right over an area where people generally don’t love being stared at?

When does the egg hunt start, and are there Jello shots inside the little plastic ones? (This is Giambattista Valli.)

This is ALSO D&G — that’s three; she must be on their mailing list — and get why she chose this one, too, because it’s so bright and Instagrammable, and unlike the other one I kind of like it. It MIGHT be a little loose in parts, which she’s covering with the post. The sleeves seem potentially baggy. Such is life without going to your regular tailor, perhaps.

Her caption for this one is perfect and I cannot possibly add to it.

If I am reading her tags correctly, this is an Alaia, an important designer, and she’s correct that she looks great in it.

AGAIN, if I am reading the tags correctly, the skirt is ALC and the top might be also, the purse is JW Anderson, and the shoes are Tory Burch. I find the hat/purse hilarious and badly want to know if she can indeed wear it as a hat — surely not? — but the cowhide clogs belong at the Saddle Ranch and ONLY the Saddle Ranch, and that’s not a compliment.