Sweetgreen's slowdown.
Glossier is hiring again, and France's largest sauna opened in Paris.
Hello everyone.
Today’s letter includes: Sweetgreen’s pain points, Glossier started hiring again after their mass layoffs, New York Magazine’s fashion podcast experiment, and a New York beauty legend joined Substack.
I finally made time to read Rachel Seville Tashjian’s review of the Gucci runway show in Milan over the weekend. All of the looks from the show are on Gucci’s Instagram if you’re looking for an immediate breakdown of the collection. Here was the part of Tashjian’s CNN review that I kept re-reading:
“The blankness of our contemporary world – the blandness of most of popular culture; the unrewarding chase of followers online and status offline; the bleak and beige aesthetics of our time; the vaguely informed emptiness of recreating earlier eras, like Y2K it-girls with their it-bags in their elbows – was all on display, like a tour through some ill-tended garden of earthly displeasures.”
There’s this moment in the show (22:03 in this YouTube video) where a model pauses on the runway to take out his iPhone, mirroring what we all look like all the time. When I watched the video last night, I thought about this post I’d seen earlier in the day on X:
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Sant Roch, a tile-covered bathhouse with a sauna and cold plunge, opened in Paris. No phones allowed. Sexy butt. And it’s apparently France’s largest sauna.
Alexis Page launched a newsletter called Self Involved. I can recall several moments in Substack history when someone joined the platform and caused a subtle vibe shift. There was charli xcx, and then Derek Thompson, and now we have Page, the woman who has quietly orchestrated what’s happening inside of your medicine cabinet for the last decade. The About page for Self Involved includes a photo of Page, shredded and wearing a red light mask. She says the newsletter will be, “Covering product intel, extremely 2026 health protocols, longevity witch doctors, industry gossip, drugstore mania, hippie shit, elite performance, what I’m personally into, what I’m really not into, treatments that are worth it, what other people will tell you based on absolutely nothing, weird health regimens I tend to become psycho obsessed with, all of this without any pretense that you need to do any of these things because - you don’t. But it’s also perfectly normal and human to want to do something!”