January 06, 2025

Nancy Pelosi in a Sandy Liang-loved Merrell Photo: Eric Lee/The New York Times/Redux

Last Friday afternoon, deputy editor Alexis Swerdloff spotted a pair of very familiar-looking shoes. Nancy Pelosi, fresh off her emergency hip-replacement surgery, arrived for the first day of the 119th Congress not in her signature heels but in what New York Times reporter Annie Karni referred to as “a shoe that looked vaguely orthopedic.” The Strategist’s middle name might as well be Vaguely Orthopedic, and, of course, we immediately ID’d these as Sandy Liang’s favorite Merrells.

Also on the site: Musician girl in red is stationery- and coffee-obsessed and told us about the Moleskin notebooks, pour over, and kettle she can’t live without. Her coffee grinder is also particularly special. “My group of friends and my band, we all have these very good grinders. We buy beans all around the world and we find really good stuff. Then we have what we call ‘coffee club.’ When we all wake up in the morning — we do this either on the bus or in the hotel rooms that we check in to — we make coffee together and we talk about love and hate and the struggles of life and whatnot.”

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Christian Siriano’s favorite moisturizer is no other than this affordable anti-aging one from L’Oréal that he’s been using for the past few years. “I like old-school classics. I love a beautiful, expensive brand, too, but I always went to these brands growing up. My mom taught me that.”