Alessandra Codinha

3 weeks ago | downtime.substack.com | Alisha Ramos |Alessandra Codinha |Ali Slagle |Yossy Arefi

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by East Fork. I’ve been slowly collecting pieces from East Fork Potteryfor years now. It always surprises me when a friend hasn’t heard of them—but once they see the joyful, beautifully made pieces, they’re almost instantly converted. My own obsession reached a peak a few years ago when my husband gently suggested I maybe slow my roll on all the colorful pottery purchases. Little did he know I had calendar reminders set for new glaze drops.

1 month ago | harpersbazaar.com | Alessandra Codinha

On a cloudless Tuesday morning in early December at Los Angeles’s BMO Stadium, a stretch of mezzanine had been arranged to look like an exceptionally well-stocked toy store. Amid the shelves, Kendrick Lamar considered a fluffy pink stuffed horse. Ali Wong reached for a Lego set. Kelly Rowland appraised a board game. Olivia Wilde scooped up slime. Demi Lovato located a hard-to-reach plastic dinosaur.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Alessandra Codinha

I was inverted in the cavelike yoga studio at Hume, the almost alarmingly chic new Los Angeles fitness club in Venice, considering my pedicure, when one of my classmates asked what I was doing after. “A few of us are going to sauna, cold plunge, and then get matchas on the roof,” she said. I told her I’d catch up after my massage. “Ooh,” she said. “Ask about a B₁₂ shot, and then come join.” I might as well—I wasn’t going anywhere.

2 months ago | vogue.com | Alessandra Codinha

If you’re planning a ski trip to Lake Tahoe—a region centered on the largest alpine lake in North America, straddling California and Nevada—when you plan to go is as important as where. While the ski season has historically started well before Christmas, in recent years the better ski conditions have been arriving later and later, making early spring the ideal time to turn up and indulge in some serious powder—provided you have four-wheel drive and snow tires.

2 months ago | thelovelist.wtf | Jess Graves |Garance Doré |Alessandra Codinha

February, for all its grey doldrums, is a month when beauty simmers. There is fashion month to consider, when the peacocks fan their feathers and jostle for pecking order, and Valentine’s day — when we’re waxed, buffed and plucked to the slinkiest of lengths for our lovers (or ourselves). In today’s letter, I go backstage at fashion week to unpack the runway hair and makeup looks at two of New York’s hottest shows.