Gauche Recommends : The Midsummer Edit
A consumerist guide
TO BUY
An olive tree (Essential)
Antique lemon squeezer (essentials for a citrus girl summer and THE ‘in’ way to bleach)
TO READ
GQ China June 2024 Issue (or just look at the heat stroke shoot)
Honor Levy’s My First Book
TO WEAR
Spirit Capital Cap (Perfect office attire)
Metallic grey suits and ties - noughties film premier vibe is hot right now
Hawico quarter zip (it’s going to be a wet and cold summer, why not accept it in cashmere made by people who’ve been experiencing this since 1874)
Marine Serre sheer t-shirt, an SSENSE sale scoop (Brat girls don’t wear bras (or underwear of any kind)
TO EAT
Reopened Julie’s, in Notting Hill
The Perello x Anya Hindmarch ice cream: “deep, creamy and spiked with the piquancy of legendary sliced Gordal olives” (the only collab we’ll tolerate these days)
TO DRINK
Amaretto sours - homemade
The Japanese cocktail: lethal but delicious
A bitter and beer @ Warehaus, Kingsland Road
TO SEE & DO
Go down a rabbit-hole looking at the maps on the UK government’s foreign travel advice website (free, educational, a good talking point for dates)
Parch x LC Selections - wine tasting at Dan’s (there’s a date theme here)
Visit the beach towns of Liguria (cooler & more low-key than Amalfi et al). Shout out to the Bay of Silence.
Stream Grey Gardens, available on Amazon (see where Jack Schlossberg gets it from)
TO LISTEN
Tape Notes Podcast
The Cutting Room Floor
SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (prep for her posthumous September album, discover Charli’s influences)