481: Private sales everywhere
At Khaite, The Row, Toteme, COS. Plus Zara x Benito "Bad Bunny" Antonio and holiday weekend reading.
Find a list of only-here discounts up to 25% off in the Magasin Code Index.
Today’s send brought to you by browser lag due to the unsustainable number of shopping tabs I have open. The best Memorial Day sales we’ll see this weekend have already launched as private sales from Khaite, The Row, Toteme, COS, plus Net-A-Porter, MyTheresa, even The RealReal. (Some of these need you to log into your account.) Does anyone know if these pants fit true to size? Is it worth anything to you that my perfect Versace bag is 20% off? More on these plus many others down below.
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With News Editor Maya Kotomori.
What’s new
Zara has entered its Benito Antonio era; things are serious enough to use Bad Bunny’s government name. The collection pulls from the musician’s Puerto Rican roots with a palette that swings between head-to-toe black and white and shades best described as melted saltwater taffy. The linen relaxed-fit pants and cropped henley are worthy of weekly rotation, with special thanks owed to Benito for continuing his campaign in support of the hint of male midriff. Satin dolphin shorts and cropped double-breasted suiting keep the capsule from drifting into basics-only territory: Zara’s mass appeal meeting Benito on an island.
UNIQLO’s new collaboration with Cecilie Bahnsen feels like the sweet spot where a Simone Rocha and Comme des Garçons Girl collection collide in an epic display of practicality. Bahnsen’s signature fascination with volume shows up in pieces like the flower-embroidered volume-sleeve T-shirt and matching skirt (there is also a dress version). It’s UNIQLO, so there’s going to be a graphic tee—this one acts as a mood board for the collection itself.
There's also: CASEY/CASEY’s ARCH Atelier Pieces capsule, arriving via the internet’s favorite men’s natural-fiber-and-Japanese-dressing emporium, Archstyle; Gabriela Hearst and Paul Smith’s limited-edition collaboration, full of pastel mountain landscapes and roaming-art-collector tailoring; and Isabel Marant is officially singing a thong song too, aka doing a design-forward collab with Havaianas.
Home releases
A fresh stack of holiday-weekend reading has arrived, spanning collectible editions, garden philosophy, restaurant archives, and saffron-heavy Spanish cooking. Flamingo Estate’s Pleasure Principles approaches seasonal living through the olfactory—think the smell of petrichor, the satisfaction of only eating tomatoes during tomato season. Assouline’s Venice La Serenissima x Fortuny enters collector-object territory at the mortgage-prices tome (it’s $3,500), tracing Venice through architecture, spirituality, power, and myth. Apartamento’s Bar Brutal pairs 26 recipes with archival photography from Barcelona’s beloved wine bar, preserving the beautiful chaos of a room where dinner can easily become a five-hour event. While we’re on the Spain page, José Andrés’ Spain: My Way moves through the cuisines of the region with the native energy of someone who just made their first successful paella.
What’s on sale
Khaite’s private sale is here, with discounts hovering between 25 and 40% off. The Fifi dress and high-neck pinstriped Naran jacket both find themselves in that extremely specific category of clothes always ready for unpredictable weather.
The Row’s private sale is now circulating through whispers among the faithful, and everything in this section is 50% off. As always, some less-intimidatingly-priced outerwear, (the Hariet coat is half off at $6k), and some great cottons like the Kazu tank.
Toteme’s once-private sale is now open to the general public. The drawstring dinner trousers and long knit skirt are both 50% off.
A Memorial Day promotion at COS reaches up to 30% off a wide selection across every department, with plenty of past-season gems still floating around. The dropped-waist mini dress, twist-detail top, and suede totes prove the brand remains masterful at everyday closet essentials.
The RealReal’s massive sale is stacked with one-of-one vintage designer finds rarely discounted anywhere else. A Gucci horsebit chain bag at $1,116, a floor-length The Row silk slip (priced down to $1,593 from $2,125), and even a 2005 Prada cami for $391 make a strong case for carving out some dedicated time to scroll your saved searches and seeing what magic there is to find.
Beauty engineered with skincare ambitions (and vice versa) is having a major sale week. Credo’s markdowns include such grails as Westman Atelier complexion drops and Alpyn Beauty’s polishing gel, OneSkin celebrates with tiered free gifts for every $75 spent over $150 (up to $300), meaning you can accumulate a head-to-toe skin health trio in addition to buying other skin-saving goods, Saie’s friends and family event begins today with 20% off sitewide applied automatically at checkout (we recommend duos like the liquid blush-bronzer Dew-O), and Glossier—the modern patron saint of skincare-makeup hybrids—has a sale running on such items as Milky Jelly Cleansing Balm and Universal Pro-Retinol dipping into genuinely tempting price territory (combine an extra 30% on top of both of those sale prices at checkout).
Moda Operandi’s designer sale ranges from 30 to 50% off, with enough rogue 70% markdowns to make an hours-long search feel worth it. High Sport’s floral mini shorts at $192 from $640 represent such 70% off items, while the sub-$800 Chloe Rita mesh ballet flats represent the 30% off selection.
The MyTheresa sale launches with a fairly even spread of 20–50% markdowns across current and past-season inventory. A great deal is a set of butter-yellow Jil Sander separates (top is 20% off, bottoms are 30%), while a pair of Loewe’s toy pumps in shearling remain gloriously strange even at a discount, down to $1,530 from $2,550.
The Simone Pérèle archive event advertises discounts “up to 70% off,” though nearly everything actually lands at the full markdown. The Heloise bra-and-thong set totaling around $45 feels like fleeing the scene of a crime…
Rachel Comey’s sale is heavy on the dependable 30-to-40%-off category, including shoes. The Carson jacket’s cropped shape in particular hits that sweet spot between the hip bone and bellybutton just so.
The No.6 “just for you” sale leans low-pressure in the best possible way, with plenty hovering around 30% off. Cordera’s merino wool cardigan and the Inez skirt from the house label make a compelling argument for a casual little shopping treat.
J.Crew’s 40% off event gets more interesting once the extra markdowns start stacking. The 2025 rollneck cable-knit dropping from $128 to roughly $48 (!) makes this an especially good moment for a line-change on cotton basics.
Alex Mill’s long-weekend sale pushes select pieces up to 50% off, including the tomato-red Pippa skirt (30% off), and suede New York loafers in an entire ROYGBIV spectrum (we’re partial to the violet ones).
Net-A-Porter’s latest sale is that classic fast-moving luxury chaos: beloved designers, shrinking size runs, “act fast” marvel markdowns, like these 40% off LMB satin flats (prices at $366), or even a new-on-the-roster Willy Chavarria dress (new season, down to $1,295).
The entire Nécessaire site is currently 20% off, including the top-rated body-retinol products. The best value remains the bundled body essentials kit, especially for anyone committed to smelling exactly the same from shoulders to ankles.
There’s also: (Deep breath now…) Simon Miller’s stripe-heavy summer sample sale, where a Gumby-green vertical stripe mini dress and zebra-print haircalf mules are somehow both 60% off; Guest in Residence’s end-of-season cashmere sweep, with most discounts around 30% off; 20% off at Babaa with babaalove at checkout, in case knit dressing is still a thing for you as the weather warms up; an Agent Nateur Memorial Day event, with 20% off the whole site (including vitamin subscriptions like the autophagy pack); hosiery on sale at Swedish Stockings, an edit with patterned tights and strange little colors and patterns that suddenly become deeply necessary at 40–70% off; RB Sides’ denim sale, complete with all the fixins (in this case it’s the Ramona shirt in purple patchwork); Beaufille’s sale section, 30–60% off and full of floor-length lace numbers dramatic enough to justify confabulating plans to wear them; Vivrelle’s Memorial Day membership deal, offering 30% off three months of luxury handbags and accessories on loan; Nikki Chasin’s warehouse sale, where embroidered tomato-red dresses and marl cashmere henleys coexist in pleasantly chaotic harmony; Faithfull’s summer sale, delivering floral bikini separates and extremely picked-over size runs (if you’re an XS, the San Marco bikini top is down to $19 from $99); Skims’ biannual markdown event, spanning knit camis to boyfriend-style fleece micro minis; Donni’s summer sale, where the Daisy coat’s descent from nearly $1,000 to under $400 feels deliciously satisfying; and Mansur Gavriel’s sweeping seasonal markdowns, finally bringing the Mini Fortuna bucket bag back.
Home sales
Another 20% off sale: sitewide for Ostermoor’s Memorial Day promotion with MEMORIAL20. Mattresses and bedding bundles are included—the best value, because they’re higher-priced! The brand’s blue-striped mattresses somehow manage to look as comfortable as they feel, which is both rare and adorable.
Ralph Lauren’s home sale is much more compelling than the clothing side, with extra markdowns driving prices down further at checkout. Who doesn’t want cable knit towels to match their sweaters? And with an extra 30% off select pieces, RL enters Target pricing territory.
There’s also: Gardenheir’s Memorial Day early access event with $25 off $150 orders using MEMORIAL at checkout, for all botanical hobbyists; 20% off at Autumn Sonata’s early access sale granted to account holders (signing up is free), stacked with bath towels and table linens in nearly every pattern known to man; Boll & Branch’s Memorial Day bedding bundles, taking 20–25% off the sort of sheets that make hotel sleep feel vaguely disappointing afterward; and Sixpenny’s PRACTICALMAGIC weekend deal, where typing the magic words at checkout yield 20% off when spending $1,000, which is unsurprisingly easy when you take a look at the sofas.
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