378: An urgent FFORME sale is underway
Plus Still Here's Sport Jeans, Toteme's $3,000 brass box, and stem cell skincare that dates back 20+ years.
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Sorry for the drama, but I could NOT have anticipated a sale like this to crop up now, and this quietly. There’s eerily little commotion happening elsewhere around the FFORME sale (password is ARCHIVE2025) that includes this leather jacket for OVER 90% OFF…which puts it at $400. And it’s still available in every size.
I didn’t buy it (took a lot of restraint, but I already have a leather jacket from the brand that I love), but I did get four other things that tallied up at under $1,200: the Murphy wide-leg leather pants for $300 (yes), Soren scoop-back tank for $250, cashmere Kimm sweater for $300, and the Dwyn knit tee for $300.
Had to cut myself off somewhere, but with less discipline (lol), I’d have also picked up the Jamie coat, now $500, that I would recognize anywhere; the double-knit Perse pants that should have gotten the Kick Flare / Gala / Dance Pant treatment when first released but pre-dated that era of pant-fandom (now $300); and the U-necked Ren sweater, also iconic, also now $300.
The sale comprises all Paul Helbers designs—we know from the in-person archive sales previously hosted that the brand over-produced units, and this isn’t the first online sale it’s run to try to rehome the surplus. They’ve even previously offloaded units to The RealReal but, incredibly, the prices at its own archive sale are even better. This marks the first that overlaps with Frances Howie’s new PF25 collection, concurrently listed on the site (shades of Phoebe Philo and Louise Trotter’s Carven), which probably explains why the discounts are sooooo far reaching.
What’s new
If Still Here’s gonna do anything, it’s going to reinvent the jean again and again. This time, with the Sport Jean, which takes creative liberty with its athletic moniker by fashioning a style with drawstring-toggle cuffs and a band-less waist. I’m convinced every girl between the ages of 22 and 36 own a pair of Still Here jeans, and those that don’t are likely to cross over with this new pair (the campaigns and overall product rollout have been so cool, very compelling).
Fashion’s talismanic era charges forth, with a new collaboration from Belle the Label and Merrma revealing a hair accessory—ebony abacus beads strung on claw combs—and Kamagong bead necklace that settle like heirlooms in a carefully acquired jewelry collection.
Toteme’s selling $3,000 brass clutches (in silver and gold vermeils), so naturally I’m looking at antique Cartier sterling silver cigar boxes and Tiffany Shaker-style trinket boxes…and discovering some exhilarating surrealism along the way 👃
Went by the Jacques Marie Mage trunk show at La Garçonne in Amagansett this weekend (only happening here and at the Tribeca location) and picked up the Vendome frames. Have to report that the gulf between Luxottica brands and real eyewear manufacturers is wider than I previously believed. I love my Saint Laurent Jeannes, but let’s be real—the acetate, hardware, and lens coating on the JMMs makes the SLs seem like a gas station souvenir. (Here’s my pair on resale.)
The new Isabel Marant is looking so great. I’ve said before that I think it’s doing Chlóe better than Chlóe is, but actually I see now it’s on its own track with which I’m even more aligned; the kind of un-fussy boho I coined as “Row-hemian” in our summer style matrix. This silk-lace gown has been following me around the internet, if only I had an occasion for it, and on the other end, here’s a 3/4-sleeve wool dress (top version) that gets the proportions just right. I really can’t summon the winter outerwear convo properly right now, but if I could it would start here.
What’s on sale
When I was in East Hampton a couple weeks ago, I stopped into the Nili Lotan store and bought this sweater a few sizes too big on sale. It’s been my go-to travel layer ever since, and reason enough for me to click through the sale now that it’s landed online: I’m very aligned with this heathered jersey tank dress down to $270, vampiric lace blouse for $462, and men’s twill trench just over $1k (but still around 40% off).
Bergdorf enters final reductions to its Designer Sale. That’s 60% off quite a bit of Prada (especially footwear—time to get these?), Bottega Veneta dashed with an extra 25% off code (these braided leather sandals are under $400 while still very much full price on all other sites), and Miu Miu…these beaded slippers say it all.
Martinianos are on sale, along with Lauren Manoogian, Hereu, Studio Nicholson, MNZ, and Le Monde Beryl footwear at Judith’s shoe sale. The store’s separate archive sale also includes similarly deep cuts on Kallmeyer, Baserange, and Rachel Comey apparel.
If anyone’s still in the market for flip-flops, here’s a great pair from By Far for 40% off at the brand’s sale.
I got a facial at Raquel New York a couple weeks ago, where the city’s greatest aesthetician noticed a tretinoin burn I’d given myself around my mouth ramping up from 0.05% to 0.1%. She suggested Calecim, which I’d heard about deep in Reddit threads, to speed healing, adding some color around the brand being a very legit biotech company. Its parent co patented the isolation of stem cells from the umbilical cord lining for use in healing diabetic wounds back in 2002, a formulation its current flagship product, the Professional Serum, leverages in its highest concentration. Anyway, every order for the next three weeks will come with a sample of its eye cream.
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Ok I bought the leather jacket!!!
just copped the $100 fforme puffy cape