Reading: Just beginning to reread Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Video: Stranger Things

Audio: The playlist from Anna Sui’s most recent runway show, via Spotify

Art: I saw “Manus x Machina”at the Metropolitan Museum of Art just before it closed. One of my favorite Costume Institute shows of recent years.

Drink: Gin and tonics

Eats & Treats: We have a new Argentinian bakery in the neighborhood. I can’t even begin to describe their caramel-filled churros.

Garb: When it felt like fall for a few days last week, I was able to break out my John Fluevog boots.

Beauty Products: New sparklies from Anna Sui! Photos and review to come soon…

Pleasure: A neighborhood party last weekend

Worry: The recent bomb explosion in Chelsea

Stray Thought: I’m going to be talking about perfume a lot in October and November.

Images: Kate Greenaway, Almanack for 1891, via New York Public Library Digital Collections.