The new show about London's literary scene.
I think we're about to enter a Charlie Rose nostalgia moment.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Today’s newsletter includes: A London literary scene party boy launches a talk show, Anna Weyant’s latest magazine cover, Food52’s new editor used to be Ina Garten’s assistant, Gen Z clothing brands want to be your new college bookstore, Popcast’s new couch, and Alex Cooper’s benevolent ad deal.
Anna Weyant painted Marc Jacobs for the latest cover of Vanity Fair’s Style Issue. This is the third cover Weyant has painted — she also did Vogue (Kaia Gerber for December 2024) and T Mag (“Flour, Sugar, Butter: A World of Pastries” in November 2025). I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a copy to read Robin Givhan on the idea of “Radical Chic” and how MAGA has hijacked fashion to “evangelize its own rigid, retro vision of America.” Speaking of American style, have you seen the new cover of Granta?
Gen Z fashion brands like LoveShackFancy and Parke are creating their own lines of college merch. LoveShackFancy collaborated with Michael Rubin’s sports platform, Fanatics, while Parke collaborated with ’47, one of the leaders in licensed sports apparel. If you’re questioning the demand for University of Tennessee merch with a pink bow on it, then you clearly haven’t been reading Casey Lewis’s in-depth research on RushTok over the last few weeks. Back in my day, the only college merch marketed to 18-year-old women was for the University of Pink.
