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Weekend Reading 7.25.26
How to master color theory for clothing like a Vogue editor. The 100 most powerful directors in Hollywood. This month’s best jewelry launches. What TV shows to watch this week. How to repeat outfits at work and not have anyone notice. The best thriller + horror books of the year. The best jewelry launches from this month and a really pretty summer color trend. The most beautiful airports in the world, a recipe for Dover sole meuniere, shopping finds, home tours, and more.
11 Summer Spritzer Cocktail Recipes
Happy Friday! This post is originally from 2020 (hence the pic on my cute little porch in Brooklyn!) but I found myself referencing it last weekend and wanted to republish it.
My Skincare Recovery Kit
Over the past year and a half, I’ve dipped my toe into doing slightly more invasive things to my skin, namely micro-needling and the Clear & Brilliant laser. I’m going to write a big post about these things in next Monday’s Substack (you can also reference last year’s post!), but in the meantime I want to talk about what I do after a treatment. After something like microneedling, your skin is very red for a few days. It’s sensitive and vulnerable! My facialist says “no actives for five days!!!!” and truthfully, sometimes I go longer than that, just because my skin still doesn’t feel fully like its best self.
The Wednesday Ten, No. 15
Every Wednesday, I’ll bring you a list of ten things that I think you should know about. I’m excited for this. I often stumble across something interesting and will share it to Instagram, but it has no real place to live. Maybe it’s a new launch, a really great podcast episode . . . maybe it’s an independent designer, an artist, or a must-have shopping find. It will be a different mix every week. You can read last week’s installment here.
Carly’s Guide to a Bedroom Refresh
Refreshing a bedroom—let alone furnishing one almost entirely from scratch—can feel like an overwhelming undertaking. Ahead of my move into a new apartment, I found myself doing exactly that for the first time. Rather than trying to solve the room all at once, I broke it down into a series of layers: first the bed frame, then the mattress and pillows, followed by the bedding, and finally the art and finishing details that brought the space to life.
Styling Last Week’s Best-Sellers, Vol. 13
Every week on Instagram, I share the previous week’s best-selling products. You can always see those collections, saved here on my ShopMy Page. It’s fun to see what pieces resonate most with you. To build on our weekly best-sellers series, we wanted to introduce a styling element. Each Monday, I will choose three of the previous week’s favorite styles and show you how to wear them. Today, we are styling these fun red Staud shorts, this easy-breezy smocked maxi dress from Tuckernuck, and these funky-but-still-neutral raffia wedges.
