Reading: Re-reading Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Starting Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City, a Boxwalla selection.

Audio: I’m starting to listen to some fashion history podcasts.

Video: “The Great Hack” on Netflix

Art: Radical Love at the Ford Foundation Gallery

Eats & Treats: Salty Road’s Bergamot Salt Water Taffy

Drink: Cocktails made with the rose liqueur that my friend N. recently gave me!

Garb: I get more compliments on a navy blue, long-sleeved, buttoned-to-the-neck Uniqlo dress that I purchased last spring than on anything else I ever wear. So funny.

Beauty Products: Just a Tint lip crayons from Colourpop. NARS tinted moisturizer.

Pleasure: Meeting some independent perfumers and other true scent-lovers at some recent events around NYC.

Plan: Getting through my August-September deadlines. Wish me luck.

Image: Hegedius Geiger, August. Circa 1900. Chromolithograph with metallic pigment on card stock. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder. 2012.6843.8