Capsule #16 ft. Will Hunter

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Who’s ticked off this week’s trifecta? (Pumpkin spice latte, soaked in the rain, marvelled at the sunshine afterwards).

My vibe is tired yet fulfilled – coming down from my first London Fashion Week and here to share some thoughts with you. Also chatting about push up bras and sharing a gift from Lorde for good measure.

Writer, doctor and winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, Will Hunter, is also here to share his Hot & Not with us. It’s a good one… ❤️‍🔥

All love,

Holly x

As promised…

A note on London Fashion Week! The best bit was making an effort to get dressed (this Pinterest board on LFW street style is great). After a bit of stress (and resentment, I won’t lie), I got into it and ended up feeling excited and bouncy on the tube. One of fashion’s main defences as a force for good is this very thing - the playfulness, the importance of expression, and why it’s good to feel great about yourself. Feeling this over the past week reminded me that it’s something worth pursuing. Sometimes I wonder if it’s somehow problematic to associate clothing with feeling closer to yourself, or more like yourself, because of course we’re all so much more than our outward appearance, etc etc. But visual markers are one of the best ways we have to show the world what’s going on inside our minds, the references we hold onto, the tribes we’re trying to align with. And that feels important for connection - something fashion is often great at (crowdsourcing outfit ideas or asking a girl in the club where her top is from), and sometimes struggles with (Burberry’s collab with a gentrified working class cafe in North London).

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I also spoke to Woo about getting dressed for fashion week, thrifting, and inspiration. Some additional goss that didn’t make it into the interview, is that one fashion week outfit also led to a chat with Paul Mescal (of recent wife pleaser fame). I caught him peeping at my tie as we simultaneously entered Camden Town tube station, a look which gave me the confidence to tap him on the shoulder and tell him I loved Aftersun. Very calm, very normal. London, what a place, I thought on the journey home.

If you want some more behind the scenes stuff of LFW, I also made two videos with Clodagh from TNM. One about what it’s actually like to go to fashion week and the shows, another on Ukrainian Fashion Week. The Ukrainian shows were incredibly moving, more so than I expected. More on that here.

We also need to talk about…

Push up bras! (Or dresses that do the same thing). After a decade of triangle bra supremacy, we’re seeing the push up have her moment once more. It’s absolutely worth pointing out that the minimal support trend has been easier for some people to follow than others, with brands like Lemonade Dolls doing the lord’s work for bigger tiddy girlies. Kim K has launched her Skims “no boob job” bra, and the reviews are great, Selena is on it, Taylor is on it, Bella is on it, Megan Fox never stopped doing it. I remember being eleven, in the toilets at my high school and some of the older girls told me their secret. If you don’t have much boob yet, just wear two bras. There’s a Euphoria x Skims campaign in there somewhere.

To cleanse the palate during Fashion Week overload…

This video of Fiona Apple at the 1997 VMAs. It’s about backing yourself, doing what you think feels right, and not following what some higher power says is cool. It’s worth your time!

And finally…

I didn’t anticipate featuring Jemima Kirke again so soon, but then she dropped this important gem. Sharing it for anyone who needs a reminder that not every day has to be killer, lots of them are filler, it’s okay to just do your job.

This week, William Rayfet Hunter popped into Capsule to share what’s 🔥hot🔥 and what’s not 🙅‍♀️ …

Will is a writer, doctor and hopeless romantic. They firmly believe — despite all the currently available evidence to the contrary — that people are generally good and love will save the day. Their debut novel People Like Us won the 2022 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize and will be published in 2025. Their other writing on love, race, politics, Stormzy and running can be found at the link in their bio.

📺 Watching: The Worst Person In The World, a Norwegian film that’s comforting and relatable if you’re feeling a bit lost in this back to work period. (Recommended by Rhea, who is helping with Capsule and you’ll hear more from soon!).

📖 Reading: Lorde’s most recent email dispatch, sent from London no less! I made it into a PDF for you to read if you aren’t a subscriber because it was really nice. She’s talking about trying to move through heartbreak despite being stuck in it and gives tonnes of cultural recs.

🎧 Listening to: I Came Home Late, the debut album from Ama Lou, a 25-year-old Londoner endorsed by Drake and Princess Nokia. The album art is beaut! And I love the unexpected guitar turn in ‘Patience’.

Butter is noting more and more instances of capri pants, two of them from trendsetters Bella Hadid and Mia Regan. Are you onboard? Or do you have an aversion to the three-quarter lengths from childhood?

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See you next week 💋