479: Cove hopping
Plus our exclusive to the Fforme private sale, new CK Collection, and Capri-by-way-of-Park-Slope.
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Last night I hosted a dinner with Strathberry, trading the coves of my Caribbean travels 🏝️🏝️🏝️ from the days prior for Flynn McGarry's West Village restaurant, Cove 🍴🍴🍴.
I’ve written about the Scottish heritage leather goods brand since my legacy media days—I’m sure you could dig up some of those ancient scripts by searching variations of “Meghan Markle Strathberry InStyle”—but a lot changes in a decade, and with the brand arriving in New York with a permanent retail space very soon, its current transmission is sleeker. My oxblood Kite Hobo bag seen below is case in point, with plenty of enviable styles spotted around the room: the chocolate suede Kite Maxi being first-in-line theft bait and the teensy new Corda Mini Bucket almost edibly cute.
Strathberry’s founder Leeanne and I talked a lot of nonsense last night (the good kind!) but decidedly sensical was her belief that quality design doesn’t have to be out of reach. Her bags, all handmade in Ubrique Spain, never cross the $1,000 line.
With News Editor Maya Kotomori.
What’s new
The new season of Calvin Klein Collection is now live at MyTheresa, and the brand continues its campaign of pulling the best instincts from its founder and the minimal greats: ’90s Jil Sander severity, early Helmut Lang pragmatism, Phoebe Philo’s pho-rever influence. The leather category feels especially dialed-in this season, see: the America bowling bag and the Vela loafer with a round-square toe. Speaking of squoval, check out the neckline on the Camille jacket, concealed placket and all. Could this be the next boatneck?
The new Studio Stretch collection by NikeSKIMS arrived yesterday, Pilates-ready and prepared for a 45-minute burn session. Kimberly’s latest feels like an antidote to the over-branded activewear boom: the logos are matte, tonal, nearly hidden in plain sight. Pieces like the dipped legging and plunge tank are engineered to show off toning gains, while the T-back triangle bra has the sort of flexibility required for any class taken in a studio. Fuller coverage options, like the racer back bra, round out the offering without sacrificing the collection’s streamlined energy.
The first look at Khaite PF26 is here, for pre-ordering any pieces on your “must secure” list. Beige-on-beige emerges as a subtle (and brilliant) proposition of the season: the loose-tension Wendy sweater paired with the Astrid skirt somehow reanimates the exhausted paper-bag waist through sheer material contrast alone.
Summer’s new wave of softer leather bags has arrived, and both Liffner and Jude have the category covered from opposite ends of the spectrum. Liffner’s High Summer drop includes pushlock clutches in punchy texture-color combos (we love the chartreuse) alongside belted bucket bags intentionally designed to wrinkle and crease with wear. Jude introduces the Gaia: a nubuck envelope bag punctuated with mixed-metal hardware. The mini leans evening-ready, while the regular size feels destined to become the equivalent of a summer briefcase.
The first drop from Sandy Liang’s High Summer range is here as well, mixing her downtown sensibility with nods to pre-1990 vintage. This initial offering is all about polka dots—the small, uniform-like ones from a sock hop (see: the Tumi polo sweater dress). The cardigan and skirt pieces can mix and match across colorways, offering lots of styling potential.
There’s also: Repetto’s Dune Collection, an Easter-basket palette of ballet flats and Mary Janes built for pounding pavement; Jamie Haller’s arrival at Bergdorf Goodman, marking the loafer whisperer’s uptown arrival with enough brushed leather and cotton poplin for the entire UES; Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen’s arrival at Maimoun, bringing the designer’s candlelit, votive sensibility to the boutique; Snow Goose by Canada Goose SS26, where Haider Ackermann turns technical outerwear into bright-colored, summer rain-appropriate fare; and Zycloom x J.Crew, a mixed-stone jewelry collaboration including a freshwater pearl anklet that feels extremely Capri-by-way-of-Park-Slope.
Men’s releases
Nicholas Daley x Glenlivet arrives as a luxury resortwear capsule celebrating the launch of the liquor brand’s 12-Year-Old Jamaica Edition whisky. This collaboration with the Scottish-Jamaican designer makes sense without trying too hard to prove it. The collection includes a relaxed, matching cabana-style shirt and relaxed tailored short set, plus two genius accessories: a silk bandana and a hand-crocheted bottle carrier (for the Glenlivet, of course).
The Studio Nicholson men’s Summer Module collection comes in as the unofficial uniform for someone who always knows the best café or vacation spot before anyone else catches on. The pops of green are especially good here (just on-trend enough) seen in the Heddy quarter-zip, which balances nicely against pieces like the Fowld linen short.
Jaques’ Tennis collection 008 is here and ready to dandify the game with some of the sharpest performance wear currently orbiting the sport. The big one is the cashmere stretch trousers, cut from an Italian lightweight, functional fabric for movement while still looking lounge-worthy courtside. The natural tennis polo also deserves mention for its wood-based renewable fiber blend and natural cooling properties.
Home releases
Jenni Kayne x Business & Pleasure’s outdoor furniture collection is a combination of brand codes: JK’s neutrals, B&P’s signature Hollywood Regency stripes. Take the WES sofa in California stripe; you can go all in and match a sun umbrella, towel, and throw pillows, contrast with Pacific stripe, or just lean into a softer grey-brown-sage palette like the director’s chair in Grove. Options!
The IKEA PS 2026 collection continues the line’s original 1995 mission of democratic design: form, function, quality, sustainability, and low prices all bundled together like some impossible Scandi magic trick. It’s colorful and a little kooky; see this inflatable chair in a sophisticated yet playful wintergreen, and this lava-lamp-like low pile rug. (One of the brand’s best pieces, in my opinion.)
There’s also: Calico Wallpaper’s Luminous collection, a Suchi Reddy-designed series of aura-like spectral wall coverings that can make any space sentient; and In Common With’s Lido series, a Murano glass lighting drop flecked like terrazzo candy.
What’s on sale
The FFORME private sale is underway, and here at Magasin we’ve got the exclusive link to the good stuff. There’s everything from fringed trench coats like the Lise (now marked down to $2,697 from $4,495), to dresses for any “wait, the dress code is formal?” emergencies, like the Beatrice, now reduced to $1,377 from $2,295. Sizes are going quickly, so if you’re a FFORME fan, best get in…FFORME-ation.
Welcome to the annual Nili Lotan archive sale, with up to 70% off pieces from across the brand’s history. Right near the top sits the paisley Bono jacket, a perfect mid-waist crop and an even better steal at $417 down from $1,390. Staples like the Alphonse wool pant have dipped below the $200 mark in select colorways, like the chocolate brown. This is one of those sales worth approaching strategically (size, color, et al.) for the best deals.
Speaking of archive sales, Shaina Mote pulls together past-season favorites alongside samples and gently worn pieces in this new edit. The brand’s beloved trousers—including the Easy and the Boy—are currently 30% off. The deepest discounts hit the seconds-quality category, where pieces like the ribbed tee are marked down by 80%. Limited sizing applies throughout, particularly on the samples.
Beauty sale season is officially in motion. There’s 20% off a peptide-rich edit at goop (that includes some favs like the youth boost serum and NAD+ cream) using beauty20 at checkout, as well as 20% off (nearly) the entire Violet Grey site, excluding Violet Boxes, Chanel, and Biologique Recherche among others. We recommend checking out the “expensive but worth it” edit to spring for products like the $75 Westman Atelier bronzer, or Eighth Day’s resurfacing tonic—purportedly a “chemical peel in a bottle.” Oh, and ILIA beauty’s annual friends and family sale is here, too, with 25% off sitewide when you join their VIP email list (it’s free), with the following added bonuses: a free mini with any order, and a full-size bronzer or highlighter for orders $100+, and for orders over $175, a full-size barrier build cream.
There’s also: Proenza Schouler’s early access private sale, with 40% off via FIRSTACCESS (fare includes the cable T-strap sandals); the very last day of a Miu Miu private sale heavy on the FW collections of seasons past (remember the mini skirt thing?); Sea’s 40% off event spanning everything from the ribbon-heavy Seraphine jacket to the barn-jacket-adjacent Miles pants; some new markdowns were added to the Tory Burch sale—the pierced sandals and polo mesh dress two of many; St. Agni’s 20% off edit, (including shoes…like the barely-there bandeau slides); a favorite-based 50% off sale at Skims, where the stretch lace dipped thong and slinky crewneck among many other best sellers dip to the $10 mark; and a progression of the Sapir Bachar sale into archive territory, now up to 50% off, including designs of seasons past like the dangling, long pearl earrings.
Men’s sales
This weekend only, Carter Young is offering subscribers 25% off all items excluding tailoring with SPRING26. Carter really understands shirting, especially the kind that gets “borrowed” by partners and somehow looks even better slightly oversized. Favorites include the classic Business (each season is made with a different deadstock fabric) and the all-time great Western Business—the yoke detailing hits every time.
Home sales
The Louis Poulsen Memorial Day sale is now live, with 15% off select styles up until the holiday. What more can really be said about a good Louis P. lamp, besides the fact that now some of them are discounted? The sale includes the Portable Panthella 250 and 160, along with colorful pendant options of the PH 5.
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