Kristen Stewart Wore Cheer Shoes to Cannes
Plus a tour of Plum Sykes’s closet and Simone Bodmer-Turner’s new tableware.
This week, we have sneaker sightings from New York to the Croisette, Design Week outfits, and Michael’s London trip report. —Simone Kitchens, Winnie Yang, Lauren Ro, and Michael Zhao
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* The saddle shoes Kristen Stewart wore at Cannes appear to be vintage Nike cheer shoes from the ’80s, a few of which you can find on eBay in orange, green, pink, and purple.
* Interior designer Ryan Lawson embellishes his nine pairs of Mephisto Match sneakers with shoe kilties from RTH. “I got jeered at for wearing ‘old-man shoes’ so much. It didn’t really bother me, but I found the tassels and thought, Oh, this will be a perfect way to tart these up and give them a little edge.”
* Haley Wollens, Chloe Sevigny’s stylist, wears Reebok Freestyle high tops.
* Plum Sykes’s Cotswolds closet has nicer wallpaper than ours (and holds a lot more tweed and couture), but she uses the same hodgepodge of cheap plastic and free dry-cleaning hangers as the rest of us. And the pieces set aside for shoots live on the same $10 Ikea rack.
* Everything in Simone Bodmer-Turner’s new tableware collection is half mold-produced, half hand-built using red stoneware that peeks through the white glaze. We like the tall bowl with its wide lip and dainty foot. Over at Marcel, the new Met Breuer restaurant by Roman and Williams Guild, the table setting (all for sale) includes silver-glazed Japanese Arita ware — a butter plate, small flower bowl, and small flower plate — that looks as if it were made out of metal and not porcelain.
* Some good outfits we saw during New York Design Week: Simone Bodmer-Turner in Fforme at her pop-up (we wrote previously about what she wears for morning hikes) and Sarah Natkins in Dissh; at the “High-Touch” exhibition, MillerKnoll creative director Kelsey Keith wore Kamperett and vintage silver earrings she found for $40; Donna Lennard, owner of the Il Buco restaurants, at the launch of Il Buco Vita x Leanne Ford tableware, in Jill Platner jewelry; Deborah Needleman, who spoke on the Toast x Dezeen panel, wore gold Bode County Clares (which she got because she loves her brown pair); Sight Unseen and Petra Hardware’s Monica Khemsurov at the new Petra–Wretched Flowers showroom in a Chelsea Mak dress and vintage shoes; and In Common With’s Felicia Hung in Rachel Comey at Quarters.
Michael spent three busy days last week in London visiting museums, restaurants, and, of course, shops.
* My wife, Alex, and I stayed at the newly opened Zetter Bloomsbury, designed by Thurstan and decorated with art and antiques from around the world. It feels like being hosted in an aristocratic anthropologist’s townhouse. (Even if you’re not staying there, you can take afternoon tea in the orangery with 24 hours’ notice.) It’s also right next to the British Museum and the London Review of Books’ bookshop (14-16 Bury Pl.), which recently opened a St. John bakery inside (the granola makes a great souvenir).
* The Margaret Howell Sale Shop (63 Margaret St.) has last season’s clothes at a 20 to 70 percent discount. Alex got a chartreuse poplin shirt and navy pull-on pants that accommodate her baby bump, and I picked up a brown merino knit polo.
* At the newly opened and expanded Nepenthes London location (55 Eastcastle St.), I regretted not buying this London-exclusive ocean-blue knit-in-Scotland cardigan from its Woburn Walk house label. Alex admired the exaggerated yet wearable silhouettes from Tacti, the newish womenswear line from Engineered Garments.
* At the River Café, we dined by custom oil-lamp light. The Paolo Petrilli jarred tomatoes on our pizzetta were as intense as chef Ruthie Rogers said they’d be, and I loved the look and feel of the modernist David Mellor Odeon flatware.
* Wardrobe writer (and Strategist alumnus) Louis Cheslaw recommended we check out the impressive collection of mod and Ivy menswear at John Simons (46 Chiltern St.). I loved the three-pocket navy-check Ivy jacket (below). But it was too similar to the Buck Mason one I’ve been wearing everywhere (they’re even made of the same 50-50 wool-linen fabric from Abraham Moon mills). However, I did buy an affordable silk knit tie and a London-made emerald linen button-down. (The brand ships to the U.S., but expect to pay duties upon checkout.)
* I also had time to stop by the nearby Niwaki store, where I found a backpack with a three-way chrome zipper, which actually looks elegant on an adult, and these carrot- and daikon-shaped fridge-magnet scissors ($10). I would’ve loved to check out Bryceland’s, Trunk, Labour and Wait, and other Brooks Reitz–recommended shops near this stretch of Chiltern Street, but I ran out of time.
* We squeezed in an afternoon visit to the new V&A East Museum, where we spent way too long nodding our heads to the drum-and-bass and U.K.-garage sections of the “Music Is Black” exhibit. (You’re given a pair of smart headphones that change the music according to where you’re standing.) The permanent-collection display includes early Pleats Please prototypes, and the gift shop includes some Issey Miyake-inspired semi-sheer socks at a Uniqlo price.
