All Caught Up: BDSM pigeon, Bop House, the Great Wealth Transfer

Sorry for the late send, luvvie!

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Feb 14, 2025

Normally we get this ‘sletter done and slated to send early on Friday, but this week has been… a lot! Anyway, we love you all 💌

This week's picks include High Fashion, ‘teenage wellness’ and liberal makeovers.

Christina’s weekly scroll –

Dream Baby Press x Valentino (!!!) for Valentine's Day. Co-founder Matt Starr curated a collection of love letters by contemporary writers, including Jemima Kirke, Mackenzie Thomas and more. Really loved this social rollout. Plus, you can stop by select Valentino boutiques to get a poem handwritten on special stationery — perfect to gift to someone you love (or to keep for yourself).
Sorry to report that the Bop House made it on Fast Company.
Anyone else see that #liberalmakeover on TikTok?
Dover Street Market made JW Anderson's pigeon bag kinky!!!
e.l.f. deserves its own column in the newsie at this point... They just hosted a women in STEM event at the United Nations, honoring female astronauts with help from e.l.f. partner Amanda Nguyen, who's set to be the first Vietnamese woman in space.
Nikita note: The year is 2065. Human rights are managed by e.l.f.
Pokémon GO x MLB. Out of the park.
What is Hims actually selling?
Augustinus Bader and La Bonne Brosse teamed up to create… a hairbrush (!) that is the same as their standard N.04 brush but costs $10 more because they made it Bader Blue and swapped the emblem at the bottom, lol.
Juicy Couture x Dunkin’ looks… bad. The ad was enough; we could’ve done without the merch!
What would an ‘America First’ diet really look like?
Now more than ever, parental wealth shapes New York's culture.
Gen Z has no idea how to act at the bar. The main issue? Payment!
Maureen Kelly, Founder & CEO of Tarte Cosmetics, posted on LinkedIn about why she chose Trippin' with Tarte over a $8 million, 30-second Super Bowl ad.

Nikita’s weekly scroll –

Euphoria is toning down the makeup. Feels like yet another recession indicator. Peep toe shoes are also trending which again feels like a recession harbinger. I’m just saying what I’m seeing.
Nike is blessedly back in the cultural conversation.
I swear I’ll get around to writing this, but something something literacy rates and designer x ‘reading’ projects give… reading will be the province of the few. Anyway, Ottessa Moshfegh for Prada.
You can hire a decision coach to call the shots for you… for $247.
Every so often I get served middle and high school aged kids posting about whole foods (as in not the store, but the carnivore-diet adjacent way of eating) and the industry is picking up…with an interest in products that enhance teen wellness.
Steph Curry is going deep on podcasts.
The past decade seems to be the only period since at least the 1970s when women under 35 were more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse. Because most men no longer qualify as ‘marriage material’ due to… too many factors!
Natalie Portman & Lena Dunham rom-com…
“When the image of cultural value is reduced to just a) what generates measurable attention online, and b) what makes “line go up” (i.e. the metric of rising price), you are vulnerable to mistaking—oh, I don’t know—some cartoons spit out by an algorithm for a durably valuable cultural trend.”
TRR launched a Substack with a Gossip Girl-esque persona. Their website is horrible to navigate—hopefully, this makes it easier. Makes sense, many writers on here are doing shopping lists!