Will you be investing in downtown supermodels?
Because their agency is fundraising.
Morning everyone. I started reading All Fours last night, it’s great. A few hundred of you want to be in this book club, so it doesn’t look like we’ll be sitting in a circle in the park, and drinking wine out of paper cups for this. But Zoom or Substack Chat might just suffice… open to other ideas. If everyone can finish by next Friday, we’ll discuss next weekend.
Today’s letter includes fundraising news for No Agency (the downtown modeling agency that reps everyone from Keith McNally’s daughter Alice, to Dasha Nekrasova), Glossier’s pivot to becoming quite sexual, and the battle between New York Magazine’s Strategist and The New York Times’ Wirecutter is heating up.
NEWS:
SOMEHOW, I got on the Rhode mailing list. The Hailey Bieber-founded brand sent me their new Pocket Blushes and I’m impressed by how nice the product is. Lip gloss has become ubiquitous over the past few years, and Rhode was part of this explosion – that sold-out phone case was a beauty vibe shift. The brand is marketing this almost as an all-over color stick, offering a “trick” on the product page, “For a glossy pout, apply to lips then top it off with a swipe of Peptide Lip Tint.” I didn’t really use blush throughout my twenties, but watching Hailey layer several of them in her video for Vogue makes me think I should be dabbling with them more. The way these products are marketed, you don’t even need a blush brush, so you really are supposed to swipe them on as easily as a gloss. Harley Weir, who has photographed for Balenciaga, Vogue, and Louis Vuitton shot the campaign.
