The Argentine chef and artist Fernando Aciar and the French creative director Anna Polonsky treated friends to a meal that felt as personal as their newly renovated home.
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Not so long ago, a collaboration between a big brand and an independent designer often played out like this: The brand would borrow the designerâs aesthetic, tweak it for their own audience, slap their name on the label, and call it a day. Maybe the designer would get a cut of the profits, but maybe notâand they likely wouldnât have much control over how the garments were made or marketed. That kind of surface-level collaboration still happens in 2021, but the projects that resonate are the ones that tell a deeper story.
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All over the country, vintage and antiques stores are being raided for the season’s most sought after fashion item: quilts. No longer relegated to dusty hope chests hiding in the attic, quilts are being remade as wearable pieces including jackets, dresses, and pants they’re thoughtful, sustainable, and, frankly, very pretty. And it’s the right trend for these unprecedented times, when the pandemic has shifted our fashion priorities: clothes not only have to be physically comfortable, but emotionally as well. If you’re anything like me, that means finding the wearable equivalent of staying at my grandmother’s place, drinking hot cocoa, and reading
Checkerboard Is the Pandemic s Answer to Millennial Pink
The comforting nostalgia and soothing order the pattern conjures strikes a chord.
By Harling Ross Featuring Tyler Mcgillivary, Holiday the Label, Mellow NYC, Baina
A throw pillow was my gateway drug. I purchased it last August from Jonathan Adler 22 square inches of pale blue-and-white checkerboard. Since then, I’ve added checkered bath towels, a checkered mug, checkered underwear, and a checkered phone case to my repertoire of gridded possessions, along with countless “inspo” screenshots in my camera roll. The proliferation of this singular pattern has become a matter of deliberate obsession for me at this point, but like most aesthetic phenomena these days, it originated as something far subtler: an eerily omniscient wink, courtesy of the Instagram algorithm.