Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. For this week, we’ve turned it into the second installment of our Valentine’s Day gift guide, with recommendations from T staffers and contributors on what to give your loved ones — or yourself. Read the first edition here , and sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com .
dramatic BLOOMS
Bouquets Assembled by Broadway Performers
By Jennifer Conrad
For years, Robbie Fairchild , a former New York City Ballet principal turned Broadway star, received flowers for a great performance. In 2017, when he was the lead in Boo-Kay NYC , and soon brought on Adam Perry, a fellow performer who’d assisted florists between stage gigs, along with three others with Broadway ties. The team works out of the ground floor of Fairchild’s Upper West Side duplex, which is now complete with a 5-by-5-foot walk-in refrigerator housing stems from the Netherlands and Manhattan’s flower district. Fairchild hopes that Boo-Kay NYC
on the scent
Fragrances Inspired by Gambia and Sweden
By Caitie Kelly
As a design and photography student at University of the Arts London, Maya Njie would often incorporate scent into her work, adding fragrances to her images to communicate “how a place or environment smells,” she says. After graduating in 2012, she began making her own blends and launched her namesake fragrance line in 2016. Mixed in small batches and bottled by hand in Nordic Cedar , which has Tobak , meanwhile, is a warm and comforting fragrance with notes Tropica is as it sounds: reminiscent of an exotic holiday, with hints of citrus, pineapple, coconut and sandalwood. And for something a bit more seasonal, this winter, Njie collaborated with the Los Angeles-based fragrance company Scent Trunk on a woody floral blend that took inspiration from Macedonia’s Pelister National Park, and features earthy aromas such as those of birch leaf, orris, violet leaf and tree moss. While the fragrances’ inspirations are personal to their creator, though, the scents are just as transporting for wearers.
sweet Treats
Homemade Jelly Cakes That Evoke Hello Kitty
By Thessaly La Force
The Nunchi cakes jiggle and wobble. They come in childish colors from slime green to pastel pink, and feature decorative fruit and nature Chifa , and developing a soon-to-be-launched home and cook-wear line. “It will look like if Animal Crossing, Cooking Mama and Sanrio had a baby,” she Brrch Flowers , meaning one can now buy a special pairing of a Instagram (for pick up in Los Angeles), and 20 percent of proceeds will go to FreeFrom , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting gender-based violence.
UNCOMMON OBJECTS
Limited-Edition Plates Made From Fused Glass
By Michael Snyder
About four years ago, the French industrial designer Fabien Cappello started experimenting with off-cuts of brightly colored glass that had been lying around his Mexico City studio, fusing the oddly shaped pieces in an oven to craft three-dimensional studies in pigment and process. The technique quickly became one of many in Cappello’s ever-expanding wheelhouse, and last year, when the British magazine Modern Design Review tapped the designer, now based in Guadalajara, to produce a limited run of decorative objects for its fourth annual collaboration with the Swedish design brand Hem , he immediately turned back to those initial creations. The result is a series of 15 delicately curved plates in shades of lilac, sage and aquamarine, jeweled with opaque geometric forms in school-bus yellow, molten tangerine and luminescent charcoal gray. The pieces, which might function as fruit bowls or simply as beautiful objets d’art, suggest broken shards of pottery gone radioactive, and are reminiscent of the mosaics of shattered tiles found in thresholds, stairways and floors across Mexico. Fused glass is a relatively new technique here, the designer says, “mostly used for decorative crosses, picture frames, things like that.” But like so much of Cappello’s work, these plates look less to handicrafts than to the country’s rich tradition of reuse and reinvention, playing
home cinema
A Short Film for a Long Year
By Minju Pak
By now, many of us have burned through every season of any television Sincerely, Erik ,” written and directed by the first-time filmmaker Naz Riahi, and chosen by Vimeo as one of its best films of 2020, is a love letter to New York City — and to literature. Following a lonely bookseller whose West Village shop has been forced to close temporarily because of the pandemic (the part is played by Erik DuRon, the real-life co-owner of Left Bank Books ), the story explores
seeing Red
A Perfect Lipstick for Every Skin Tone
By Caitie Kelly
For most, this Valentine’s Day won’t include romantic dinners out or get-togethers with friends three different reds that each Velvet Ribbon lipstick, which has a slight sheen, so lips really do look velvety, not flat; the cherry-hued Cool Gloss from Jones Road, Bobbi Brown’s new makeup venture, which has a refreshing, minty scent; L’Oréal’s Shiny Lip Stain , whose glossy finish makes it perfect for all-day wear; and Live Tinted’s Huestick , a four-in-one product that can be used as a blush, eye shadow, lipstick and color corrector. La bise might be a thing of the past , but red lips most certainly are not.
timeless fashion
A Capsule Collection for Versatile Dressing
By Kate Guadagnino
It’s the rare fashion editor and writer who can translate her impeccable eye into a global brand, but that’s what Elin Kling did when she founded Totême with her now-husband, Karl Lindman, in 2014. The Stockholm-based line appeals to those who dislike a design twist for its own sake but are nonetheless in want of clothes that feel chic, rather than sensible or severe. To celebrate adding the brand Mytheresa has partnered with Kling and Lindman on a nine-piece capsule collection that revisits some of their most iconic styles. Included are wide-leg jeans in either white or raw denim, a pale-blue cashmere cardigan with black-and-silver buttons, and a cream-colored, smocked polyester tracksuit comprising a collared button-down and tapered elastic-waist pants. “The pants could almost be an evening piece — or you could wear them to the beach with a bikini,” says Tiffany Hsu, Mytheresa’s fashion buying director. Her words have me looking forward to the days when I’ll need to get dressed in a real way again, not least because that will mean the world has become safer. And these pieces, which telegraph optimism in their palette and the mere fact of their existence without straying too far from the comfort level to which we’ve grown accustomed, seem like ideal ones to wear as we anticipate re-entry.
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