My good friend Odette Williams — the Australian-born, Brooklyn-based writer of Simple Cake and Simple Pasta and drinks party fame — all the time laughs whereas she talks, which is essentially the most endearing high quality. She brings that very same laid-back type to cooking, entertaining, and getting dressed. “Thanks for considering of this shabby Aussie,” she joked, after I requested if we might {photograph} her. Listed here are 5 seems to be Odette wears on repeat…
Black jacket: classic, similar. Camisole: Sézane.
“I acquired this classic jacket throughout college, and it’s nonetheless going! This jacket jogs my memory of my nan, who liked vogue. She wore lipstick and fragrance till the very finish, and she or he hosted with a way of straightforward glamour, like bubbly Champs and a caftan. In Australia, you may’t take your self too significantly, it’s too f-ing scorching. I all the time have a number of camisoles, too; you may put on them with a pair of denims or beneath a sweater with it poking via.”
Jumpsuit: Lee, comparable here and here.
“Via work, I’ve amassed an enormous cookbook assortment. My true north is Nigel Slater’s Real Food. It was the primary cookbook I purchased myself after I acquired a paycheck out of school. The kind of meals he made felt like an actual permission slip to turn out to be the type of cook dinner I wished to be. He has primary chapters like potato, rooster, chocolate; and he makes scrumptious homey recipes. The pictures nonetheless holds up, which is uncommon as a result of cookbooks can date shortly — he did very tight close-ups of the substances and captured that yumminess. And I really like his voice — he was the primary cookbook author the place I felt like, oh, he’s my good friend, I do know him.”
Males’s shirt: classic, comparable here and here. Swimsuit: Peixoto. Hat: Deus Ex Machina. Sun shades: Ray-Ban. Bracelet: Layla.
“In the course of the summer time, I dwell in a swimsuit and secondhand males’s tailor-made shirt from eBay or Etsy. They’re lengthy sufficient that they’re virtually a shirt costume, so that you might be cooking and hanging out. In any other case, I’m in some type of caftan. Once I die, simply bury me with one of many caftans that I lived in on the seashore for six years in a row.”
“After I end each cookbook, I give myself a present. The newest was this gold bracelet, which I put on day-after-day. I acquired it at Layla in Brooklyn. My mother wore bracelets, and I keep in mind her often getting a brand new job or one thing and shopping for herself a deal with.”
Black costume: H&M. Sandals: byJAMES.
“This spring, I went on a visit with my good friend Amy, and I packed so poorly. I didn’t have something to put on to dinner, so she let me borrow a black costume, and I wore it each evening. I used to be like, this costume is so wonderful. Because it’s linen, you may put on it day or evening; you’re feeling comfy and put collectively, however not overdressed. The dress is from H&M for $35 — inform everybody studying this text to get on it!”
“I all the time love the ’80s films with Meryl Streep when she’s in a trench coat in New York. It’s magic what a trench can do for an outfit — you may pull one over sweats and abruptly you’re stylish. I noticed this one within the window of Rag & Bone, and I waited and waited and it lastly went on sale. An enormous coat can drown you out, however this one is extra fitted and tailor-made. I assure, I’ll have it my complete life and cross it right down to my daughter.”
Trench: Rag & Bone. Purse: Clare V.
“For straightforward internet hosting, my foremost factor is: select only a couple dishes that may be performed forward of time, and, on the evening of the occasion, if every thing’s not performed, however individuals are arriving quickly, STOP. Pour your self a glass, go take a bathe or brush your enamel or placed on some lippy — no matter you are able to do to offer your self a beat. As a result of that different stuff will get performed, and that beat reminds you, Oh, yeah. That is what we’re all right here for.”
Thanks a lot, Odette!
P.S. More women share their weeks of outfits, together with a mom talking about stripes and grief and a food editor with cat socks. Plus, five things I noticed at a drinks party at Odette’s house.
(Photographs by Christine Han for Cup of Jo.)
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