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Capsule #70 ft. Emily Ash Powell
That time I got stuck in a hurricane in Florida. Plus an exercise in feeling good!
Holly Beddingfield
October 11, 2024
Hello hello,
Today’s issue isn’t a regular one as I’ll be on holiday by the time you read it for a post-fashion month break. 💆♀️ In lieu of regular programming, I’ve done a small feel-good exercise and invited you to do the same. I promise it’s worth your while!
That’s the introduction I wrote a few days before my trip. I’m popping in now, on Thursday 10th October to share that my trip started in Florida, where I happened to get caught in Hurricane Milton. I wrote about my experience for Elle and you can read it here:
Back to some housekeeping: There won’t be a newsletter next week while I’m away, but we’ll resume as usual on the 25th. Thank you for allowing me to have a break. Surely future content will be better for it… 🫶
Have a great weekend,
Holly x
A few weeks ago, my friend sent me a list of things she loves.
It was a screenshot from her Notes app, a long list of small, specific and mundane aspects of her life that bring her joy. She has a stressful job (a junior doctor currently in A&E), and pausing to remember what’s good is a vital way of keeping her in a good headspace.
She asked me to send my list back, and I remember at first thinking, I’ll do this when I’m in a better mood, as if the answers I’d come up with on that morning might not be good enough to capture how good life can be.
I opened my Notes app and started a list, assuming I’d need to come back to it a few times to get it finished. What happened instead was much nicer: a montage of small moments came to me, I stared at one spot on the wall and watched these tiny vignettes replay in my mind. I moved through categories - rituals, things I do alone, food, drink, loved ones, seasonal shifts - and jotted down them down. Here is that list:
Really can’t recommend this enough as an activity and then a resource for you to have and come back to. Of course all the best things in life are close to you and accessible, you just have to focus on them and make time for it. After finishing I wondered if I should now do a list of things I don’t like, until I realised the absolute reverse effect that would have…
And now it’s your turn. 🖤
Share your list here, anonymous or not, you choose. I would love to read these on my return. If you are struggling, think about categories (places, activities, food, small habits, what you dream of having a free weekend to do, etc!).
Think of it like the Hot & Not list’s more wholesome cousin.
One more thing…
I also put together a roundup of 10 looks from the SS25 shows that have left an impact, now that the buzz and viral moments are fading away. See them here!
This week, Emily Ash Powell popped into Capsule to share what’s 🔥hot🔥 and what’s not 🙅♀️ …
Emily is a Welsh writer, editor and the Global Head of Copy at Bumble, currently based in London. She writes for places like Stylist, Cosmopolitan, Huffpost, the iPaper on all things work, love and women. Emily is also the author of the newsletter Hurdling, which looks at (and celebrates) how we get over the things that stand in our way. You can sign up here.
🔥🔥🔥Hot🔥🔥🔥
playing cards at the pub, snorting while laughing, grandparents, ready salted hula hoops, red nails (always), being by the sea, vinted, eggs in any form except poached, knowing yourself, SPF (yes, even in A/W), that red sezane tote bag, writing love letters to friends, CMAT, chunky rectangle gold hoops, red lipstick, beavers returning to London, hard lines coffee, sunflowers, restarting couch to 5k, letting go of other people's opinions
Hot Not… 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️
people pleasing, the rain, three coffees w/ no lunch, sending a message less than 1 min into a meeting asking, 'you joining?', soho house, tight deadlines, £8.50 for a pint in London, FaceTiming on public transport with no headphones, the price of train tickets, being too busy, being too tired, saving things for best, not eating enough protein, emails as a concept, performative exercising, it getting darker earlier, unrealistic expectations, owning an iron
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📺 Watching: NIGHTHAWK, a documentary about the making of John Galliano’s 2024 artisanal collection for Margiela, and Nobody Wants This, the new Adam Brody Netflix series.
📖 Reading: Two longer pieces worth spending time with: this excellent, extensive history of online fashion fandom by Emilia Petrarca, who draws on her own experience of being attracted to Man Repeller, and this account from fashion critic Cathy Horyn on finding her personal style at 67.
🎧 Listening to: A recent episode of Seek Treatment with Caleb Hearon, plus the Brat remix album, which will be out by the time you read this. Happy Friday!
A pup called Oatly
It’s not just me going on holiday… Google searches for ‘winter sun’ reached a 5-year high this week. Phuket is the most searched destination, and people are also searching for sunny Christmases in Barbados, Barcelona, Bali, Florida, and Tenerife. Oatly just asks that you don’t leave him behind. 🥺
If you’d like to adopt Oatly or one of his friends, click here to learn more.
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See you next week 💋