We're planning a poker tournament.
I'm jealous of the Cartier-sponsored game that Theo Von and Kylie Jenner played in.
Good morning everyone. I think it’s time to revisit the idea of a Feed Me poker tournament. This isn’t the Vegas talking. This is the FOMO I’m feeling from the Cartier-sponsored poker game talking.
I don’t want to play a women-only game. I don’t want to play a game with first-time players. I want to set up a bunch of tables in a room where smoking is allowed, and people want to win some money and talk shit. If you can only make it for an hour, you can’t come.
If some rooms come to mind where you can see this happening, and you want to help me plan this, then I have a job for you.
Free letter today!
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Tickets are on sale for Fyre Fest again. I still have such a distinct memory of living in Stuyvesant Town in 2017 with my sister and getting texts from friends who were in Florida on their way to the festival. I think a lot about what would happen if TikTok existed then – Instagram Stories had launched less than a year prior to the 2017 failed concert. Fyre Festival 2 is described as, “an electrifying celebration of music, arts, cuisine, comedy, fashion, gaming, sports, and treasure hunting.” Comedy, huh. Most great basketball players have one great move to the hoop, and I think for Billy McFarland it’s “I like to organize concerts and parties.” One skill. According to Vanity Fair, McFarland apparently doesn’t know if the terms of his release from prison will allow him to travel internationally to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, where the event is slated to take place from May 30 to June 2. I guess he can manage it from afar.
Good news for all the search fund guys who say they’re rolling up marinas. Blackstone just acquired 138 marinas in the US and Puerto Rico, including in Montauk, Stamford, and Los Angeles. Marinas are a pretty good moated business with a lot of pricing power. They’re basically a real estate and infrastructure investment. According to Bloomberg, “While boat sales tend to ebb and flow with consumer sentiment, storage slips tend to be in short supply in all economies, creating opportunities for marina owners to modernize properties and drive higher rents. A trend toward larger superyachts with richer owners has also created opportunities for marinas to sell more services.”
Ashley Flowers makes $45mm a year in profit. “Flowers is now constructing a new studio devoted to video, part of an expansion that will triple her office space to 30,000 square feet and double her staff to almost 130 people.”
makes a good case for why it is probably better to be an unusually accurate writer than a journalist.
Sakara is still trying to figure it out. When I see people promoting Sakara’s meal delivery, I make a mental note of it. I’m not convinced anyone pays for it or enjoys it. I could be wrong – I’d be happy to be corrected. But every time I’ve been gifted their cleanse services, the only good thing is the muffin (which is hard to fuck up). Today, the wellness brand is launching supplements, including $60 weight-loss gummies (that share some ingredients as Kourtney Kardashian’s Lemme GLP gummies) and $40 drops that “reduce oxidative stress.” At least with the salads and muffins you actually knew how many calories you were eating, which could realistically lead to weight loss. $60 gummies sound like snake oil. The brand cleared their Instagram grid for this launch, which signifies to me that they’re betting big on Metabolism Bites.
I really enjoyed this interview with Bladee. “Sometimes I do nothing to the point where I’m pushed to the edge of my existence, and I have to create something. That’s what’s important to me: when I feel my purpose, and when I make better things every time.”
Some Hamptons drama. Here it concerns a school, beefing teachers, and a $25 Amazon gift card (as well as arbitrator fees for this whole thing now exceeding $25k — 1000x more than the value of the gift card that started the drama).
Unilever's CEO has been outed. He came under some heat when Ben & Jerry’s, a Unilever subsidiary, sued their own parent company for stifling their stances on Gaza. Overall the company has been struggling due to declining sales of their affordable goods, and might be revisiting talks to buy the company that makes Advil, per the FT.
The FOMO I’m feeling over the Cartier poker game in Los Angeles is making me sick. Kylie, Timothee, and Theo???? If you play poker, and want to come to a Feed Me game, comment below.
Laura Reilly published Magasin’s 2024 Brand Rank. I wish more newsletters were doing repeating annual projects like this – the data gives Magasin so much street cred. Magasin’s weighted system determines—out of the 5,000+ brands that ranked—which 20 are most in-demand among the newsletter’s tens of thousands of subscribers. The results? Cos, J.Crew, and The Row are the brands you guys are most interested in.
This is the second Diptyqe post out of the last six on their Instagram page that I’m commenting on. Everything about this activation was well executed. It’s the kind of product activation we want to see rather than massive lines outside the Glossier store. For the launch of their new flanker, Orphéon Blue (a limited edition of their classic Orphéon fragrance), which is meant to be an invitation “to soak up the effervescent ambiance of Parisian night life”, they created a jazz club pop-up in NYC. It makes sense, the perfume evokes the smoky/woody scent of Parisian jazz clubs, which should bring associations to sounds: what better way than this pop-up to tie all of that together and give the brand a ‘cool’ factor in one of their target markets, NYC?
posed a good question after attending the event:
Fara Homidi is taking on some fresh cash from Sandbridge Capital. I’m really curious about the direction the Fara Homidi team will take this — the brand has a super limited product collection that centers around design-forward compacts. They already have a retail situation with Sephora which is major, and I’ve also bought their products at the Goop store on Bond.
Yes to smoking inside for this
i'm very in for the poker game as long as the stakes are meaningful