The Weekly Edit

jane birkin's birkin, a humbleness check-in, the world's best spas, instagram's new feature and so much more!

Hiii from what feels like the official start of summer! The girls wrapped up the school year this week, which came with a cocktail of joy, relief, and heartache (I’m not ready to talk about the end of preschool). That disorienting in-between when one season ends and another begins? We’re in it.

I hope you had a good week!

XX,

G

The Weekly Edit:

• Did you catch Salma Hayek Pinault’s GRWM video on VOGUE? I loved it! She’s so authentically herself and has great beauty tips (I’ve done the double mask since watching it).

• How curiosity rewires your brain for change.

• And if you’re curious: how to start self-studying.

• Everything millennial is cool again.

• The 55 best small towns in America according to AD.

• 100 best spas in the world according to VOGUE.

• Why do our self-care treatments look more like self-harm? The increasing masochism of self-optimisation.

• Cute Haim GQ interview around the San Fernando Valley (which is where I grew up). 818 forever!

• Watched/listened to E40 on tiny desk.

• Rose Uniacke is making mattresses now.

• A sweeping collection of nearly 450 personal artifacts from David Lynch’s private archive is being offered up for public auction.

• Sotheby’s will soon auction the original Hermès Birkin bag that once belonged to the late singer Jane Birkin.

• The Boatkin Bag is part Birkin, part boat and tote.

• Speaking of bags, a gooood linen tote.

• File under cool and I want to go: Raquel Allegra, the Los Angeles-based fashion designer, purchased a 24-room Many Feathers Ranch in Valdez, 10 miles north of Taos in 2019, restored it and now runs it as a guesthouse. Read about the New Mexico town that’s still a beacon for artists.

• More about “Mother Mermaid,” one of the 2025 summer aesthetics. Not to be confused with Guava Girl Summer.

• Mother Mermaid adjacent: these shorts and these shorts, or shorts like those, are taking over my algorithm.

• Levi’s x Nike coming soon?! I’m curious.

• Instagram is testing an in-app teleprompter feature for edits.

• A new study of over 47,000 women found links between coffee drinking and healthy aging. Cheers to that!

• Eat this daily to flush out forever chemicals.

• Samin Nosrat - cook, teacher, host and author - joined Substack! Who else uses Diamond Crystal kosher salt because of her?

• What’s in season for June.

• Creative place card ideas for summer entertaining.

• For anyone who needs a humbleness check-in: read this.

• My new newsletter hit inboxes Tuesday: 7 things! The first issue includes a tinted sunscreen breakdown, the ultimate al fresco dinner party menu, a summer bag edit, a better hostess gift, great sunglasses, the do-nothing but make it cute list and a share on children's grief. I hope you like!

• I finished Sirens and Your Friends & Neighbors prompting a quick poll on IG for what everyone is watching next, answers: Better Sister, The Four Seasons, Hacks, Mobland and The Studio.

• Rachel Zoe is joining ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ for Season 15.

• Have you ever noticed the midlife crisis theme in Nancy Meyers’ films?

• A few shopping things:

  • This little J. Crew dress is so cute. So is this linen one which is on sale.

  • My sandals around the farm for the last two summers were these rubber Birks, this year, I’m thinking black Havaianas. Also by my backdoor: clogs.

  • Ordered this new Jenni Kayne dress and plan to live in it (GERI15 for 15% off Jenni Kayne anytime)!

  • I’m starting tennis and am starting with this skirt and tank (I’m obsessed with Varley these days).

  • Sales worth a browse: TIBI, TOTEME, Bergdorf’s is an extra 15% off sale.

• A few beauty things:

  • Glossier is launching body care.

  • I got a little too much sun at our end-of-year school party and used this After Sun Stone which was a dream!

  • I’m leaning into fridge skincare for the heat - eye cream, facial mist, aloe gel, blissful!

  • If you need an exfoliating foot scrub, this one is great. It seems random, but trust.

  • KOSAS did a blush shade extension with an extra bite: wavelength (warm peach), chills (cool vibrant berry) and heartbeat (vibrant red). Perfect for summer.

  • ILIA is having their friends & family sale, 20% off sitewide and 25% off purchases of $125+

• A few motherhood/kid things:

  • 100+ kids activities to do without a screen.

  • Why not let your kids have a ‘wild’ summer?

  • How can I help my children make appropriate clothing choices?

  • 50+ Nostalgic '90s kids movies to watch with your family.

  • The best destination to take your kids at each age — from infants to college grads.

  • I love Minnow swim for the children! So cute for the girls and for Jack.

And to close it out, do nothing but make it cute part two:

1. Put a bowl of cherries on the counter and delight in their beauty.

2. Hair in a braid, SPF, and lip oil = instant put-together.

3. Jazz or bossa nova playing while you do the dishes.

4. Inbox cleanse: mark all as read and start fresh from zero.

5. Eat something messy like a juicy peach over the sink while barefoot.

If you enjoyed this, would you be kind enough to give it a little heart? Have a nice week!