How to Dress for Summer — On Prints, Color, and Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone
On stepping outside your comfort zone specifically: if your default is solid, neutral separates, add one printed piece and keep everything else where it is.
Gingham in the Home
Gingham needs contrast — something harder, something more unexpected, something that tells the eye this isn't an accident.
July Field Notes — The Garden at Full Volume
Cut generously and often, restock your vases, and give flowers to everyone you encounter. July is genuinely not the month for moderation.
The Garden Spritz — Cucumber, Verbena, and Tonic
Lemon verbena paired with cucumber and good tonic water. A spritz that is botanical and completely unlike anything you'd order at a bar.
Tomato Toast with Basil Oil and Crispy Capers
A July tomato — genuinely ripe, sun-warmed, from a farm stand or your own vine — needs almost nothing. This is a recipe built around that truth.