Sunday Inspiration: Volume 1.29

All of the inspiration, content, and intentions of the week so that you can arrive the aspirational way.

Sentiment of the week: “The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.” - Patti Smith, Just Kids

Here’s what is currently inspiring us: The relearning of lessons and being gentle with the roundabout process, creating things out of inspiration versus a should, browsing vintage and antique stores as a form of creative meditation, this body oil, falling in love with changing your mind and changing it again, slowly reducing coffee from your routine in a way that appears less like a breakup and more like a declaration of love, this purse, saving your money for that one investment piece versus spending unconsciously on the little goods that phase out of your life all too quickly, breathing into the human experience rather than avoiding it, remembering that the art museums are open; the book stores are open, persimmons being in season, the inevitable fall of winter, the deep love of a friend that isn’t going anywhere.

What we are consuming this week:

Podcast: Why DTC Success is All About the Slow Burn (ft. Dianna Cohen of Crown Affair) - Limited Supply Podcast

Book: On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Article: How the World of Oz Got So Wonderful by Chelsea Sanchez

TV: The Penguin on HBO Max

Brand of the week: ARAKII is where essentials meet statements; where the need for a capsule collection is met with the need for an expressive point of view; where staple pieces are not underdone but rather over performed; where design is infused into the tailoring; where the fit is just as important as the articulation of a shoulder. ARAKII is the modernist yet minimalists dream. Our dream picks: Twin Collar Blazer Zebra Pick, Cloud Oversize Sweater, Mel Dress.

News, updates, & happenings in the industry and in culture:

• Wicked has a $120M box office opening weekend - Deadline

• Crown Affair closes $9M Series B round - Beauty Independent

• Saint Laurent and Balenciaga have new CEOs - BoF

• Olivia Rodrigo is the new face of Lancome - Harper’s Bazaar

• Alex Cooper made a $125M deal with SiriusXM to grow her empire - Forbes

Topics to become a more interesting woman:

• How the most expensive spice is grown - T Magazine

• The art of articulation: How to speak more eloquently - Viveura

• 100 female contemporary artists to introduce your friends to - Mary Lynn Buchanan Blog

• How to host the perfect holiday party - Goop

Artist of the week: GaHee Park; a Montreal based artist who was born in Seoul, South Korea, known for “depicting romantic scenes where the idyll has turned sour.” Follow GaHee Park and her work here.

Ritual to implement: Giving yourself grace; grace of thought, grace of rest, grace of support. In all of the healing and the ambition and the goals and the releasing, we forget to wrap ourselves in a warm hug of grace at the end of the day. For we are humans and we are luxurious, creative, alive beings - and yet we are also tender. In those tender moments, choose grace. Your inner self will give back such gratitude.

Place to daydream about: The Proper Hotel in Austin, Texas. Designed by Kelly Wearstler. An artist’s dream of electricity, eccentricity, and creativity.

What’s on our wishlist: Ilaria Corset Midi Dress by LPA

Reordering this week: The Leave-In Conditioner by Crown Affair

Home of the week: A Stockholm flat with a Parisian flair home to architect Andreas Martin-Löf and Sofi Fahrman, a fashion journalist.. Photography by Magnus Marding. Featured in Architectural Digest.

Nostalgic for: The trinkets of our youth. Finding small items that we used to fall in love with. The child’s imagination of an inanimate object that breathes new life into it. 

Question to ask yourself this week: What automatic coping mechanisms do you get to let go of that are no longer serving you?

Have a beautiful week. Until next Sunday.

Sincerely,

The REVUE Team

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.” - Marcel Proust

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