Random Recs: Sotheby’s, Jonathan Anderson, The Bitter End



UK AIDS Memorial Quilt

A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…

1/ UK AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT. Next Thursday (12th June) sees the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt go on display in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, a combination of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels dedicated to approximately 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS in the UK. Alongside, there’s an hourly free screening of “There is a Light That Never Goes Out”, a recently rediscovered 50-minute documentary about the 1994 display of the quilt in Hyde Park. The quilt is on display at the Tate from 12-16 June; the film will be screened from 12-15 June. No booking required. Read more here.

2/ Is the end of the extremely online era nigh?

3/ Who asked for this SOTHEBY’S collab? Have we reached peak merch?
Sothebys x Frame merch

4/ Can’t wait to see THE BITTER END with Joan and Isabella. The upcoming biopic has Joan Collins playing the Duchess of Windsor and Isabella Rossellini playing her demonic lawyer, Suzanne Blum. Here’s hoping the costumes are fabulous.
Joan Collins and Isabelle Rossellini The Bitter End

5/ Revisiting this JONATHAN ANDERSON 032c long read from 2016. “People, for me, are a function. Is that awful? I curate people as much as I curate objects…” (And here’s my 2017 interview with him for Sotheby’s magazine on art, craft and collecting.)

6/ Please sign me up for the DIPTYQUE X SUSANNE KAUFMANN lip oil*. (Has anyone tried it?)
Diptyque x Susanne Kaufmann

WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: UK AIDS Memorial Quilt; Sotheby’s x Frame; The Bitter End; Susanne Kaufmann x Diptyque
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Shop the post: COS summer edit



COS ss25 runway high summer

From looking at the back-end of my affiliates (those links that sometimes earn me commission – if people shop the posts), I can tell you that COS* is as popular with Disneyrollergirl readers as it is with me.

And now, we have an idea why.

In recent months, the Swedish high street brand has been pushing into a more luxe-leaning direction, with designer-looking products and international fashion shows à la brands like Dior and Chanel, attended by A-list celebs and their version of EIPs (i.e. top-tier Instagram influencers).

Vogue Business has the low-down, noting that with its sixth position in the Lyst Index top 10 ranking of fashion’s hottest brands, COS is filling the white space for the “former high-end shopper who may have pulled back spending as of late”. Quality is a major focus – of design, fabrics, art direction and photography. And the in-store experience is always a serene pleasure. As managing director Daniel Hermann says, “you should feel value [whether] the price point is low or high.” Indeed, according to The Future Laboratory’s ‘New Codes of Value’ macro trend report, value is the latest (elusive) must-have ‘metric’ for brands and it’s something COS serves very well.

COS ss25 runway high summer



While its viral pieces include a quilted bag and barrel-leg trousers, I’m much keener on the quiet classics that it manages to reinvent in contemporary cuts, colours and proportions. Year-round knitwear* is particularly strong, plus tailored shorts*, casual outerwear* and this linen tote*.

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WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: COS SS25
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Why we all love New New Bottega



Bottega Veneta campaign Tyler the Creator.

Louise Trotter’s New New Bottega hasn’t launched yet, however, we’ve all been swooning over her first campaign*, which went instantly viral last week.

Seeded with a series of close-up hand gestures photographed by Jack Davison, we soon identified the owners of those hands, revealed in videos accompanied by their poetic musings on the power and symbolism of hand work. (more…)

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Random Recs: Jony Ive, Centre Commercial Outdoor, Gauthier Borsarello



Richard Avedon In The American West

A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…

1/ JONY IVE’S SEXY AI. If anyone can make A.I sexy, maybe it’s Jony Ive, whose company IO is being sold to OpenAI to create desirable devices (think pendants, eyewear…) for the age of AGI (artificial general intelligence). Read more in the NYT (gift link). (more…)

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