Retail Therapy 010: Clean Girls & Anna Wintour's Lunch
You're either Clean or Feral, there's no inbetween.
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“Are you ‘Clean’ or ‘Feral’?”
Nothing piques the Retail Therapy interest like a good discussion about aesthetics, and Barrett’s recent dive into the Clean Girl aesthetic turned into a full-blown conversation about Clean Girls vs. Feral Girls.
Not sure what constitutes being Clean? Well, here’s an excerpt from The Tab that may help —
Typically the “clean girl” makeup involves fluffy brows, dewy skin, flushed cheeks and glossy lips. You should look like you’re not even wearing makeup – you just woke up looking perfect!
The “clean girl” is more than just a look, though. She’s got her life together – the aesthetic also involves having a tidy living space, staying active and eating healthily. She’s kind of like “that girl” but she’s going the extra mile.
The look draws inspiration from celebs who manage to look effortlessly put-together. Think Hailey Bieber, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley and Zoe Kravitz.
While the former prioritizes their skin routine and general wellness, the latter documents “their most ‘feral’ moments, ranging from waking up with last night’s makeup on to ditching a rigid routine and staying out to party with friends,” per Soho House.
While I still think my assertion that a few martinis can turn even the cleanest of us into feral monsters, I’d still like to think that the Clean route is the one worth taking.
The ‘It Girl’ Moment of the Week
How cool would it be for someone to refer to you as a “it” person? Like, you’re “it” and you just “get” it. Must be nice.
Alyssa Vingan, editor-in-chief of Nylon, gave us our first ever It Girl Moment of the Week this week by documenting something from Chloe Sevigny’s wedding.
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I’ll just say it — hand-rolled cigar bars are so 2016.
Let’s talk about Anna Wintour’s $77 lunch.
I don’t have a lunch routine outside of my trademark Monday smoothies that have (unfortunately) fallen by the wayside as of late. Anna Wintour, though? Well, her name’s been in the news cycle lately because people are rattled by her normal lunch.
Anna, the new Anna Wintour biography, is 430 pages long. Author Amy Odell spent four years working on it, interviewing more than 250 sources. It is the most definitive text on the Vogue editor-in-chief’s life to date, and it’s filled with fascinating details, like the time Wintour’s colleagues allegedly saw her throwing out pennies while she was working as an editor here at New York. But it was another sentence of Odell’s that stopped me cold when I first read it, and it’s haunted me ever since: “In fact, Wintour’s go-to lunch, after Condé Nast moved offices to 1 World Trade Center, was a steak and caprese salad without the tomatoes from the nearby Palm restaurant.”
I’m not anti-tomato because I’m not a child, but I do understand the segment of people who simply cannot get over the fact that she’s eating a “caprese” without tomatoes.
A filet for lunch every single day, though? Kind of a flex.
As always, we closed things out with our wishlists.
Apologies for any broken links below — a lot of these products are now from older seasons or have since sold out, so our link situation will remain in flux.
Will’s Wishlist
Vintage Side Tables
Barrett’s Wishlist
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