Things You Might Like, No. 22
Limping, crawling, dragging myself to the new year… much like everyone else, it seems? A quick post this week running through my favourite things from this year because it’s the week between Christmas and New Years and whose brain is functioning properly? Definitely not mine.
Things to wear
2023 Favourites: I really liked the Anthropologie dress I bought for my brother’s wedding, as well as this grey cropped sweater I snagged from Mango a while ago and was happily able to wear last week during Sydney’s random cold snap. It’s a great basic that hits exactly where I want it to. I was also super impressed with J.Crew this year, who have really flourished under the creative direction of Olympia Gayot. (Finally getting a lady jacket is on the list for 2024.)
Things to put in your home
2023 Favourites: Discovering a whole bunch of new ceramicists was a heap of fun this year, and I love my little scalloped bowl from Meg Lumley (which I can’t link to!). I also love this bowl, a collaboration between Robert Gordon and Juluwarlu Jirda Thalu. And I really love this scalloped raffia photo frame from Anthropologie—so much so that I haven’t decided which photo to put in it yet…
Things to watch
2023 Favourites: I mean, Succession this year was the pinnacle of television: a perfect season that only got better week after week. I’m nervous about going back and rewatching because it was so good to experience the first time! Other stellar tv shows this year: The Bear, Deadloch, Happy Valley, Colin from Accounts, Never Have I Ever, Australian Survivor. In terms of films: the collective joy and excitement around Barbie was super fun, my fiends and I sobbed our way through The Old Oak, and Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper were both exceptional in Maestro.
Things to read
2023 Favourites: Is it cheating to say that one of the best articles I read all year was actually first published in 2020? In any case, I still think about this profoundly beautiful essay from Meehan Crist about the ethics of wanting / having children in the context of climate change, despite first sharing it all the way back in August. It seems a little disingenuous to recommend books given I read so few this year, but happily I did read a few in the last few weeks of the year (perhaps a sign that my recovery from burnout is underway….?) and I really loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Yellowface.
Things to listen to
2023 Favourites: This one’s obvious.
Until next week (in 2024!),
Chelsea