Sunday Inspiration: Volume 2.25

Sentiment of the week: “We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.” ― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

Here’s what is currently inspiring us: Moments that feel so beautiful that they become surreal, connecting deeply to our creativity deep within the well of our lungs, relinquishing control, architecture that is purposeful and wonderful and strong, feeling beautiful despite external validation, lyrics that give you goosebumps, Leonard Cohen’s poetry, when your entire chest is going to explode because you have so much to say that your fingers cannot type out the stories and the stanzas and the prose fast enough, large breakfast spreads comprised of local breads and fresh fruits and farm-raised eggs, ritualizing the mundane in pursuit of the romantic, putting your phone on do not disturb, protecting art, understanding that literature is the most important history book of all, individualism over conformity, sprawling vineyards, accessories inspired by summer, letting that curated version of you loosen up just a bit, trusting that when you are who you truly are life will provide you with alignment, dry desert heat, the orange and pastel glow of a sunrise, thinking that maybe just maybe you could do that one thing you have always dreamed of doing, accepting the season of life you are in and finding the love within it, peaches and blueberries, freshly roasted coffee.

What we are consuming this week:

Podcast: Hailey Bieber on Building Rhode into a Billion-Dollar Beauty Brand on The Business of Fashion Podcast

Book: Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis

Article: The Never Ending Layers of Jourdan Sloane: How to Receive and Be in Your Feminine As a Woman by Gabrielle Scout

Song: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? by Carole King

Brand of the week: Max Mara’s Resort 2026 collection has us stepping into the iconic forces of Italian cinema. Tailored, sophisticated, and feminine, every article of clothing screams tour-de-force. It is the uniform of the most interesting woman in the room. To view the entire collection and enter into an Italian coastal fantasy of strength, romance, and culture, click here. To shop current Max Mara, click here.

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

• Dôen Raises Series A Funding Led by Silas Capital - BoF

• Francesco Risso to exit Marni - Vogue

• Former Fashion Editor Patricia Peterson Dies at 99 - WWD

• Asos appoints Aaron Izzard as their new CFO - BoF

• The second phase of the Grand Palais’s reopening is complete - Vogue

• Ulla Johnson makes Harrods retail debut as part of U.K. expansion - WWD

• Bernard Arnault grapples with the biggest slump in LVMH’s history - BoF

Topics to make you a more interesting woman:

• How Taylor Swift created internet fandom - Elle

• Here is what we are missing about maternal mental health - Goop

• 17 women share their truths about aging - Harper’s Bazaar

• A meta analysis of recession indicators according to fashion - Style Analytics

• How The Real Real would style Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s character in the new American Love Story series - The RealReal

Artist of the week: Cy Twombly paints with a romantic chaos; a slight sense of the ethereal with a true touch of the disorder. One could get lost and lost and lost in a Twombly piece, asking oneself: Is this beautiful? Is this pure? Is this happy? Is this romantic? Is this painful? A whirlwind of contradictions - light and darkness, peace and chaos, happiness and sadness - Cy Twombly forever stands as one of our favorite artists of all times. To learn more about Cy Twombly, click here.

Ritual to implement: Monitoring your thoughts and taking inventory of the way you are speaking to yourself. In which moments do your thoughts berate you? Why those moments? Which part of you needs more love? Implementing awareness when the negative thoughts come into the picture and replacing them with something more tender, something more graceful, something more true.

Place to daydream about: This 10th-century fortress in Umbria, Italy has been restored into The Reschio Hotel: rustic, luxurious, and historic. When one thinks of Italian elegance, one imagines the grounds of Reschio with wooden beams, terrazzo accents, and custom furnishings. The ultimate romantic getaway that is drenched in culture. To book a stay at Reschio, click here.

Personal insight of the week: “I don’t know if I’ve learned anything yet! I did learn how to have a happy home, but I consider myself fortunate in that regard because I could’ve rolled right by it. Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth — we don’t have shamans or soothsayers, and depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side, too, and we become attracted to fluff. That’s reflected in the fact that this culture sets up an addiction to romance based on insecurity — the uncertainty of whether or not you’re truly united with the object of your obsession is the rush people get hooked on. I’ve seen this pattern so much in myself and my friends and some people never get off that line. But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing. I recently read an article in Esquire magazine called ‘The End of Sex,’ that said something that struck me as very true. It said: “If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.” What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over. You can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. With a long relationship, things die then are rekindled, and that shared process of rebirth deepens the love. It’s hard work, though, and a lot of people run at the first sign of trouble. You’re with this person, and suddenly you look like an asshole to them or they look like an asshole to you — it’s unpleasant, but if you can get through it you get closer and you learn a way of loving that’s different from the neurotic love enshrined in movies. It’s warmer and has more padding to it.” - Joni Mitchell

What’s on our wishlist: Chain-Fringed Gold-Tone Pendant Necklace by Chloé

Reordering this week: White Wine Body Cream by Irene Forte

Home of the week: One of the homes we come back to over and over and over again - for its warmth, for its livability, for its minimalistic design, for its modernity and its earthly textures. Designed by Wabi San Miguel in collaboration with Max Von Werz. Photography by Cesar Bejar Studio.

Nostalgic for: Tumblr. The hours and hours and hours spent on Tumblr.

Questions to ask at the dinner table:

• If you could be invited to any dinner party, whose dinner party would it be?

• How does it feel when you think about your future dreams and goals?

• If your personality was a city or a country, which city or country would it be?

Question to ask yourself this week: Where are you gripping too tightly? Where can you melt into a surrendered ease?

The Founder’s Edit: Products, goods, and everyday luxury REVUE Editor-in-Chief Gabrielle Scout is loving. Click to shop.

Have a beautiful week. Until next Sunday.

Sincerely,

Gabrielle Scout

Editor-in-Chief of REVUE

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