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My wife Lucy got me a Prada briefcase last September as a present, not for any occasion really. Come to think of it, she was increasingly not down with me carrying my laptop and notebooks in this broken and apparently unfixable Samsonite bag that belonged to my grandfather. The bag had a yellowed card in a tag indicating that, if found, please send to the concierge at the Carlyle. I replaced it with the Prada: elegant but understated, an ideal size and weight, just the thing to break out if you feel like going to work in an office.
Jan 20, 2022
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imagine youre me, and for your whole life, for as long as you can remember, you've had this brown with gold hardware monogram lv suitcase that's gone with you to like, every vacation. and you got it from your grandmother (it was hers first) who you love alot, and now you're 23 and you still have this suitcase, it's actually the only one you've ever owned and you love it so much. and you go to florida to visit your grandmother, and the airline manhandles your fucking suitcase and now the zipper is all messed up, not so badly that you can't use it but definitely badly enough that it needs a repair or it Will be unusable soon. and imagine you are so so sad and woeful and lamenting your poor suitcase for like two weeks, before you go to your girlfriend's apartment and see a purse on the couch. and you're like where did you get that? and she's like, i found it on the table of stuff in this apartment building where people leave unwanted things up for grab. and its a GODDAMN BROWN WITH GOLD HARDWARE MONOGRAM LV PURSE.
Jun 24, 2025
I usually carry a small bag but I like this one when I have to carry paperwork. The reinforced metal corners keep it structured and it has a little zipper pouch that clips to a strap + a snug pocket inside for a phone
Jun 4, 2024
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fuck backpacks, I wanna see more men carry over the shoulder leather bags that spill out printed quarterly reports and macbooks Jane Birkin style
May 23, 2024
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My grandfather, my dad’s dad, was living in Marina del Rey when I was in high school, and when I stayed with him we’d wake up and walk the few blocks down Pacific to Washington to grab the paper and a coffee. Across from the Cow’s End Cafe was an intriguing looking tan building hosting a bar that had its name spelled across the top in a bambooed-out font. When I was visiting from college, I finally ventured into Hinano Cafe, and found what’s certainly the best bar in Venice, maybe in the world. The mugs and pitchers are frozen cold, the Pacifico never runs out and the popcorn’s free. The best part of Hinano is the cheeseburger, still just $7.50, smothered in Tapatio and accompanied by a handful of whole fresh hot peppers and a gratis bag of chips, dealer’s choice. It’s my last stop before heading to LAX, to go home.
Jan 20, 2022
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I was walking to Chris Sharp’s fantastic Mexico City gallery Lulu in April 2021 when I came across a bar wall-to-wall devoted to the series Gossip Girl, which ran on the CW from 2007 to 2012. This was surprising, to say the least. Here, in the suburban sprawl south of Roma, all of a sudden there’s an obsessive shrine to a show that has nothing whatsoever to do with Mexico City, an otherwise unremarkable watering hole inexplicably plastered with images of Blair, Serena, Nate, Chuck and Dan. “YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME XOXO” is written on the walls and the mirrors. On Gossip Girl, Lily van der Woodsen has hanging in her apartment an Elmgreen & Dragset work related to their installation Prada Marfa—lo and behold, this insane CDMX establishment has a copy of that exact work hanging framed on the wall. The whole thing had me convinced I was having some kind of a psychotic episode, especially after no one believed me when I told them about it later on during Friday lunch at Contramar. But actually the place has a pretty legit Instagram presence, so I guess it’s real. It’s called Serenna, spelled like that. Just incredible.
Jan 20, 2022
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It’s this upstate chain of convenience stores, and I go on the way up to the house in Kingston, and the way down back to the city, and sometimes just because I drive by. My wife swears by the Stewart’s-branded ice cream, and we stock our fridge full of Stewart’s branded seltzers—and colas, and juices, and Arnold Palmers—in all flavors. Shit you not, the hot dogs are legit. And they carry this Saratoga beef jerky that is truly called Damn Good Jerky, and it is incredibly good if you pick the “Hot & Spicy” variety. Stewart’s makes its own jerky too, but I haven’t tried it.
Jan 20, 2022