Sunday Inspiration: Volume 1.31

For the most interesting woman in the room; designed to bring more depth, intention, and luxury into your week

Sentiment of the week: “On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself - on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

Here’s what is currently inspiring us: Holding two energies at once with confidence; the fully consuming energy of creative alignment and the painful yet tender growing pains of your next arrival, taking two of these every night, imagining up a vision and then bringing it to life, the beauty of collaboration and not doing it alone, statement dresses for the abundance of holidays party populating your social calendars, reading Italian novels, remembering that your desires are for your highest good in this lifetime, romanticizing commutes, strengthening your trust muscle with the universe, these coffee cups, starting the day with three belly breaths and a proclamation of love instead of the all too familiar automatic negative bias that peruse our mind subconsciously, the warm whirlwind of the holiday season, these jeans.

What we are consuming this week:

Podcast: The Great Luxury E-Commerce Reckoning on The Business of Fashion Podcast

Book: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Article: Muses v. Influencers and How to Know the Difference Between the Two by Noora Raj Brown

Song: Baby, It’s Cold Outside by She & Him

Photo of the week: Behind-the-scenes shot of our REVUE launch campaign. Coming January 2025.

Brand of the week: MANU Atelier; founded by the daughters of one of the oldest hand craftsman and leather goods manufacturer in Istanbul, Turkey. Born, built, and brought into life through the lens of artisanship and hand crafted leather goods, MANU Atelier is equal parts modern design as it is heritage foundation. On our wishlist: these boots, this bag (of course), this mini bag, these heels.

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

• Jonathan Anderson of Loewe won best designer of the year at BFC’s 2024 Fashion Awards - BoF

• Timothée Chalamet is playing Bob Dylan in new biopic, A Complete Unknown - Vanity Fair

• Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year is Mocha Mousse - The New York Times

• Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie launch a new reality show, The Encore - Marie Claire

• The Bottega Venetta x Zanotta beanbags were on display at Design Miami - Vogue

Topics to make you a more interesting woman:

• Why fashion needs the art world more than ever - BoF

• The importance of building identity capital - And I’ve Been Saying That!

• Wedding plus-one etiquette for the brides-to-be - Vogue

• The 10 ideas that will shape health & wellness for 2025 - mindbodygreen

• Notre Dame’s astonishing rebirth after catching fire in 2019 - The New York Times

Artist of the week: Jess Allen; the master of absence, presence, objects, and the human experience revolving those objects. Her work invites intimacy, as if we are a fly on the wall of a moment that is neither tangible or intangible; actually happening or a reflection of our own experience. The lens of interpersonal relationships is both on full display and a whisper of a secret. For more of Jess Allen’s work, click here.

Ritual to implement: Having a solo lunch. Bringing a book. Living through your creative imagination for a window of time. Treating yourself to a date that is typically reserved for at the very least two. Knowing that you are worthy of the lunch for one.

Place to daydream about: Amenjena in Marrakech, Morocco; a luxury hotel sprawling with gardens, private pools, olive trees, vaulted ceilings, and Moorish arches. Set close to the fabled Red City, enjoy a stay with the High Atlas Mountains on the horizon. To book a stay, click here.

What’s on our wishlist: Centenary Vanity Case by Globe-Trotter

Reordering this week: Lemme Focus

Home of the week: The home of Moon Juice founder, Amanda Chantal Bacon located in Montecito. Photography by Tim Hirschmann. Styled by Lisa Rowe and Lauren Gastelum. Featured in Architectural Digest.

Nostalgic for: When Instagram was a photo editing app.

Question to ask yourself this week: How can I lean even more fully into faith, trust, and surrender when it comes to the gap between my current reality and my future reality?

Have a beautiful week. Until next Sunday.

Sincerely,

The REVUE Team

“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.” ― Josephine Baker

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