This roundup of things we liked this week originally appeared in the January 9, 2025 edition of the Secret Strategist newsletter, a weekly email where we share the stuff our staff — plus a rotating cast of writers, design-world people, and various others with very good taste — would otherwise keep to themselves. If you want to get our picks straight to your inbox each week, sign up here.
Happy New Year! Here are two cheering, fish-related things to buy: an Arthur Court fish platter and a Blenko-style fish vase. —Katy Schneider and Simone Kitchens
This Week’s List
* Wondering how we can acquire a “scarf bar” like this one in the new Elder Statesman store. These pants racks on Etsy aren’t far off.
* We noticed Lynn Yaeger wearing some Molly Goddard Uggs while hanging out with our very own Wendy Goodman.
* You can get kids and baby Air Rifts in Japan.
Editor’s note: Nike Japan lists all prices in Japanese Yen, so the price shown is an approximate conversion to U.S. dollars.
* It’s a good time to get nice base layers from Nui. Senior editor Winnie Yang just got some merino-silk thermals for her and her daughter for skiing. The 40 percent–off sale is very good.
* Also from Winnie: “I just found this beautiful vintage Norwegian sweater on Noihsaf Bazaar” — a Minnesota-based resale site — “and the seller had it listed under ‘Knit Fair Isle Cardigan,’ which got me thinking about how, though the technique for knitting many traditional Nordic sweaters is the same as Fair Isle (and actually, a real proper Fair Isle sweater is one knit on that island with that technique), you might find better results searching for the actual sweater names, like ‘lopapeysa’ for the Icelandic kind and ‘lusekofte’ for the Norwegian kind. Here’s one good place to look for lopapeysa. Or search ‘kihnu troi’ for an Estonian sweater.”
* These cookies, by Warm Milk and Cookies, which we discovered via Gabrielle Richardson’s Instagram, are absurdly detailed and pretty. DM for purchase.
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