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Easy peasy.
Add some jewelry, and I'd say you've got the perfect outfit.
-Leigh
Leslie Caron in a bedsheet via David DowntonNosing around
I'm surprising myself with how much I like Instagram stories, they are such a lovely way to creep (see above screenshot of Hannah Kristina Metz's cupboard).
xo LeighA new kind of Dark & Stormy
A combination that is beguiling and mysterious and full of light, all at once.
The Indian Holiday Ring, and the black diamond pavé Fairy Light, both only at Catbird. Just how we like it. ;)
-LeighGoldfinger.
I love these gold-rimmed nails our friend Tracylee did for the Rodarte shows!
-Leigh
image via Into the GlossA New York Love Story
They met at Earwax (fare thee well, old neighbors), and were married at Saipua. Read more in The New York Times, be prepared to smile.
-LeighSinging Her Praises (sorry, so bad)
Sally Singer is one of my heroes. She's erudite, and a reader, and a smart, kind, free-thinker. I really loved listening to this podcast.
Sally Singer, at home at the Chelsea Hotel, from The Selby
-LeighSummer's Last Licks
Wait, what? How can summer almost be over?? By way of protest, I am spraying just the right amount of sea, salt and gold onto my hair. That should do it.- rony
Captian Blankenship Golden Waves Sea Salt Shimmer Spray, $28 (pretty reasonable in exchange for a few extra weeks of summer)Patch me up with gold
Sidewalk Kintsukuroi expands on the traditional Japanese art of Kintsukuroi (“to repair with gold;” performed on ceramics) taking it, literally, out into the streets. At the heart of the idea of such “golden repair” is that something is made more beautiful for having been broken.
Rachel Sussman via Lauren Cerand
-LeighSunday regrets, with the Emperor of Ice Cream.
Last night, after a sumptuous dinner, full of heirloom tomatoes and truffles and dessert, we drove as the sun set and the clouds hung low and heavy, laden with gold not pasta, past a roadside ice-cream stand with lavender ice cream and we kept on driving and I think we made a specious though tiny mistake. Always stop for the (locally-grown) lavender ice cream, even after you've just finished a sumptuous dinner and have already had your dessert.
Two Step Chain Sapphire Earrings (which are almost the shade of North Fork lavender) by WWAKE, $382 at Catbird and catbirdnyc.com
-LeighSet your intentions.
He pauses and looks out the window onto the old, twisted plum tree that grows in the courtyard.
“The next house will have a garden.”
