Ruby's Recs

Dec 5, 2024 | longlive.substack.com | Erika Veurink |Melanie Masarin |Ruby's Recs |Katie Gatti Tassin

I hesitate to even call this a gift guide. I hope it’s a resource you can come back to when your boyfriend’s friend’s parents invite you to their chalet for the weekend or when you get a slack that you’re in a last-minute Secret Santa situation. Not to discredit the following as thoughtful gifts. Never! But they’re not tied to the holidays or a festive feeling. Some of these could be cool as a housewarming present.

Nov 19, 2024 | longlive.substack.com | Erika Veurink |Ruby's Recs |Tori Simokov

You know the type—the kind of friend whose location you check when you have thirty-two minutes in Soho before your next appointment. They might just be around the corner and what could be more delightful than an impromptu catch up? This gift guide is high risk and high reward. The candles and cashmere scarves, we’ll save those for later. This is for the people you care enough about to order ahead on behalf of—the true blues.

Oct 10, 2024 | longlive.substack.com | Erika Veurink |Ochuko Akpovbovbo |Ruby's Recs

Longevity is a key metric in closet-building. Getting an item for a steal is great, but if it’s dropped off at Goodwill in four months, was it really a purchase worth celebrating? I love looking at the items in my closet that have hung there for five, ten years. And the part that rings that most true: it’s not always the expensive pieces that stand the test of time.

Aug 13, 2024 | longlive.substack.com | Erika Veurink |Ruby's Recs

I talk about thrifting and my best friend all the time. Maybe it’s because it’s our favorite thing to do together. Or perhaps it has to do with her expertise (remember the $200 Chanel?), which I’ve been benefiting from for almost a decade. I like talking about it on this newsletter because as much as I love finding shiny new links for you all to shop, I really want to talk about shopping secondhand. It’s an art, not a science. It’s an exercise in taste and patience and risk + reward.

Aug 8, 2024 | longlive.substack.com | Erika Veurink |Tori Simokov |Ruby's Recs |Lulu Graham

This letter is sponsored by Fashionphile. We come to this place…for magic. Long Live is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. So begins the time-honored AMC Nicole Kidman commercial and the unofficial tagline of EV Salon. And by magic, for the sake of this letter, I mean outfit inspiration.