This week’s digest is guest edited by New York–based fashion editor laura reilly, who writes the fashion shopping newsletter Magasin on Substack. Laura’s most popular post is “Building a no-skips underwear drawer,” in which she shares the best bras, underwear, and socks found after months of research. If you’re into her selections here, be sure to subscribe to her Substack. As a fashion writer, I’d probably implode if all the content I consumed was fashion-focused, given how much of it I absorb and proliferate several times a week through Magasin. By Sunday night, my brain is waterlogged with sales and collaborations and collection launches, and I can expect to see my UPS guy sooner rather than later. For a balanced diet, I make sure I get a healthy portion of wellness—or something like it, as in Chris Gayomali’s health and fitness HEAVIES, one of my favorite new publications to land on Substack. I get my percent daily value of music through Matthew Schnipper’s Deep Voices—check out this collection of “under-loved” songs from his community—which keeps my Spotify primed with thoughtful new playlists whenever I need them. And my carb allowance comes in the form of The Cakewalk, Khuyen Do’s calorie bomb of CPG intel that does, admittedly, overlap with fashion. Similarly, Molly Blutstein’s Outfits & Interiors series marries a few passions of mine. Naturally, I do adore fashion content—even when it challenges the state of fashion content itself, as with Emmanuelle Maréchal’s dig into Milan’s criticism scene. There is so much quality fashion thinking happening in my inbox, how could I not? Below, find a few of my favorite recent reads hosted on Substack, including a guest spot of my own on Throwing Fits (James Harris and Lawrence Schlossman), who I’m happy to say just joined the platform. About time, guys. FASHIONCan fashion criticism keep up with fashion weeks’ fast pace?“Substack has not yet hit Europe to the extent that it’s swept the States, especially in the fashion space (I have high hopes and tell every writer I meet out there to be a pioneer). One under-the-radar exception is Emmanuelle, who’s doing phenomenal meta-journalism work, reporting on the fashion criticism scenes in Paris and Milan. It’s opened a window to the media landscapes in those hubs that I otherwise would not understand to the degree that I now do. I completely believe that, with more eyes on her in-depth interviews, she has the capacity to lift journalistic standards to a greater level.”—Emmanuelle Maréchal in Le Journal Curioso
DESIGNOutfits & interiors“The fashion-interiors connection is a strong one, and I’ve talked to many of my peers about their own relationships with the overlapping industries. More often than not, they find relief applying the visual skills they picked up in fashion to spatial design, relieved to no longer have to direct focus on their own physical form. Molly’s idiosyncrasy is her ability to make the arrow point the other way, taking inspiration from homes, hotels, galleries, and more to craft thoughtful, screenshottable, channelable outfits.”—Molly Blutstein in In The Details With Molly
FITNESSIntroducing HEAVIES, a modern newsletter about health and wellness“Every new newsletter is more or less obligated to sell you on itself in its first send, but few do so as assuredly or with as much narrative flow as Chris does in his introduction to HEAVIES. Chris and I intersected in the menswear-newsletter space at around the same time—he with his viral essay in Delia Cai’s Hate Read series on Deez Links and I with the introduction of the menswear column on Magasin—but this new editorial venture proves Chris is capable well beyond the fashion parameters that fell on him in his former in-house role at GQ. In this case, fitness. It’s a muscle he’s more than capable of flexing.”
MUSICThe readers’ under-loved playlist“My taste in music is as good as my taste in people who have good taste in music. That is to say, music was not my chosen passion into which I throw all of my spare hours, so instead I rely on a select few around me (and yes, The Row’s monthly playlists) to guide which tunes dock in my ear ports. Matthew’s newsletters usually offer playlists he himself has built around a certain mood or theme, but for his 100th send, he invited his community to share their favorite ‘under-loved’ songs. I was too shy, maybe too embarrassed, to send mine in, but I think that makes me even more attached to this cumulative list from those I share a degree of separation from—my sister wives of good taste.”—Matthew Schnipper in Deep Voices
FOOD(Hot) dog days of summer“The fashion and food—especially fast food—connection is stronger than you’d probably guess if Khuyen wasn’t doing the hard work of gathering all of the collaborations, synergies, activations, and pure coincidences that tie the two together. Think: Loewe’s viral tomato tweet to product rollout and this July 4th–themed hot dog curiosities assortment. Stay for the shopping picks at the end.”
CULTUREThe new Storm King“Kyle read me for filth in this piece, providing a measure for a career’s worth of New York relationships in a single graf about upstate museums (this is what Kyle does: he defines universalities in the culture in a way that you can’t unsee). But then, despite the glaring stock-issue-ness of my past failed dating stages, I’m ultimately charmed by his no-ill-will observation of the habits that bring us together.”—Kyle Chayka in One Thing
DECORFinding your “divorce aesthetic”“I’m a sucker for a vintage interiors edit, but what’s most impressive about this piece is that it landed on a throughline that’s entirely legitimate as a unifying aesthetic perspective that had previously been left largely unaddressed. Leonora tends to suss out this kind of thing in her posts (think: menstruation furniture, Polly Pocket’s role in the tiny home movement, actual gems from Where America Shops), so even though I almost always find something practical and beautiful I’d want to add to my home, I’m never bored reading through to discover them.”
SHOWThe Laura Reilly interview with Throwing Fits“Shameless plug of my own podcast interview with Throwing Fits now that the boys have landed on Substack (excellent move!). This was one of my favorite experiences speaking about running Magasin and my career trajectory. As a reader more than a listener, usually, I’m happy to have them contributing more written word moving forward.”—Throwing Fits in Throwing Fits
Recently launchedComing soonCongratulations to the following writers celebrating publication. Caroline Chambers is offering a pre-order giveaway for subscribers: Shana Minei Spence shares a first look at her new book, out in August:
Notes from our guest editor
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Inspired by the writers featured in Substack Reads? Writing on your own Substack is just a few clicks away: Substack Reads is a weekly roundup of writing, ideas, art, and audio from the world of Substack. Posts are recommended by staff and readers, and this week’s edition was curated by laura reilly, who writes Magasin on Substack. You can also follow Laura on X and Instagram, and Magasin on Instagram. Substack Reads is edited from Substack’s U.K. outpost by Hannah Ray. Got a Substack post to recommend? Tell us about it in the comments. |
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