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Carven Pre-Fall 2024



Carven Pre-Fall 2024

Everyone’s talking about Carven Pre-Fall 2024.

These “straight-up”-style look book photos are an excellent styling research tool, offering wardrobe inspo even if you’re not planning to buy anything.

If you are planning to shop, it’s giving The Row style at more accessible prices. I’ve not seen Carven up close enough to see the quality, but I have high hopes. The wool gabardine coat, bonded cotton mac and crease-front tailored pants (a major emerging trend for next season, remember) are whispering to me. OK, the schlumpy slippers not so much…

Carven Pre-Fall 2024
Carven Pre-Fall 2024
Carven Pre-Fall 2024





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Got a light?



The Millennial Decorator cigfluencers

News just in: Smoking is – allegedly – cool again. Thanks to Cigfluencers and its ilk on Instagram, we’re being subjected to the great and glam of Hollywood and their smoking habits. From Paul Mescal and Natalie Portman sharing a fag break to Chloe Sevigny in Charli XCX’s ‘360’ video, the vibe is knowingly decadent and deviant. We’re all aware that smoking kills, stains your teeth and gives you foul breath. But those long white sticks drooping from a fingertip are indelibly linked in our brains as the height of old-school sophistication. I mean – Marlene Dietrich!

Marlene Dietrich smoking by Eugene Robert Richee

Onto the merch.

It’s not all about the cigarettes. The accompanying paraphernalia is just as coveted. Can we say vintage Elsa Peretti bean lighter? 1920s Van Cleef cigarette case? Hermès cigarette box? Adding to the appeal is the fact that these products are multi-use. An ashtray* can function as a trinket tray. A cigarette case can be a minaudière. It’s symbolic of more extravagant times, yet your Etsy cigarette box can store vitamins or mints, allowing you to channel your inner old money heiress from the comfort of your zone 3 rental. It’s a vibe and yes, I’m here for it.

Elsa Peretti Tiffany & Co. 1980's Jasper 18 Karat Gold Vintage Bean Pill Box Lighter Case
Supreme X Emilio Pucci lighter


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WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: The Millennial Decorator; Marlene Dietrich smoking by Eugene Robert Richee; Wilson’s Estate Jewelry; The Millennial Decorator
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Hermès takes Manhattan



Hermes AW24 New York Theo Werner

My SS24 trend report picked up on the major appetite for leather, and of course Hermès comes top of the leather lust list.

Hermès just showed the second ‘chapter’ of its AW24 collection in New York – a seductive, cinematic portrayal of wearable-yet-sexy (for straight-laced Hermès) leather trousers, jumpsuits, outerwear and abundant Mapplethorpe-esque caps that some thought dominated the show, but I rather loved. (Once a stylist always a stylist.)

Dior paid a similar tribute to Manhattan recently (more…)

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Slight of hand



Tank Louis Cartier Mini by Cartier Watch Community Instsgram

It feels like we’re officially in our ‘small watch era’. After what feels like decades – scratch that, it was decades – of ginormous, chestbeating steel watches, we’re seeing the return of dainty, Deco-era watch cases on chic leather straps.

I’m attributing part of the shift to the affluent, small-wristed Asian customer, and possibly the wave of Chinese celebs being co-opted by luxury brands hoping to entice the next generation of watch enthusiasts. Also to note: the insatiable appetite for vintage watches. (more…)

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