December 18, 2024

Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers, Joe McKendry

This week, I got to write my very own Strategist Brain, where I maybe get a little too real about my polarizing shopping habits. I either shop on an extreme sample-sale-induced impulse or I mull over an item for months until the thing sells out (tragic). Indecisiveness aside, my fiancé and I (we’re newly engaged!) are closing some tabs and making some much-need updates to our apartment as gifts to ourselves this holiday. First thing on the list is finally getting some room-darkening curtains to block out light from our very busy street, and second is adding some floating bookshelves (we have a major book-buying problem). Also on my mind: constellation Baggus and running mittens from Tracksmith. 

Elsewhere on the site: Amelia Jerden wrote about how to host overnight guests when you don’t have a guest room and these are the concealers our beauty editors actually buy.

SALE

STRAT CHATS

Photo: Lauren Ro 

Lauren Ro: can anyone ID this backpack? I was gonna ask him but they were deep in convo

Kathy Li: I think it's beis 

Lauren Ro: omg amazing! how did you know that?

Kathy Li: I recognized it from the drawstring! my old roommate had one

Lauren Ro: nice! did they like it?

Kathy Li: I remember she liked the look of the buckle but it wasn't the most convenient and she would've preferred a zipper

Kathy Li: also depending on what you put in it the shape could look lopsided because it doesn't have a lot of structure