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Soft Power
The Half Second Before Yes
You know that tiredness you get after a day when nothing actually went wrong? You were helpful, you were nice, you took on the thing nobody else wanted to deal with. And by the...
Soft Power
Three Chains, One Decision
The necklaces you don't wear are rarely the ones you regret buying. They're usually...
Undimmed
The Most Capable Person in the Room
There's a particular tiredness that has nothing to do with how much you actually...
Soft Power
Soft Power
You have got very good at the part where you cope. What you have...
Sensuality
Sensuality
You got dressed this morning without looking. Not carelessly — efficiently, the way you...
Undimmed
You have caught yourself doing it. Softening the sentence, laughing at the end of it, taking up marginally less space in a room than you are entitled to. How do...
Becoming
Someone asks what you are into these days and you find you have no answer. Not a sad one — just a blank where the answer used to be, and...
Contrast, Not Matching
You have bought sunglasses you loved in the shop and never wore again, more than once....
Buy the Thing You Understand
Two necklaces, both gold, one four times the price of the other. The listings say 18K...
Ten Seconds a Day
There is a chain in your drawer you stopped wearing because something about it changed and...
Buying Lingerie Online for No Occasion At All
There is a particular quiet that happens at eleven at night, phone in hand, basket half...
What the Cut-Outs Are Actually For
You have scrolled past a hundred of them and closed the tab every time, because the...
You Decided This at Nineteen
Black sunglasses are a decision you made once, aged about nineteen, and have never revisited. They...
Everyone Owns the Plain Ones
You own the plain gold hoops. Everyone owns the plain gold hoops, and there is a...
There is a difference between treating yourself and returning to yourself.
Love Your Beauty
Every piece carries a chapter
Topic says what it is about. Chapter says who it is for.
One letter, most Sundays.
Written to one woman rather than a list. No offers dressed as observations, and nothing sent because it is a Tuesday.