Daily Skimm

EDITOR’S NOTE

Happy Sunday. After traveling for three consecutive weekends, I can’t tell you how happy I am to be home — and back in my routine. That involves a decent amount (read: a lot) of scrolling. Some of my best finds?

Can’t get behind the Flip-Flop Renaissance? These are the surprisingly chic sandals women in their 30s and 40s are wearing instead. Just ask Jennifer Lawrence…and me.
As soon as I decided I was too old to use a pocket lighter for my candles, I came across this two-minute DIY that turns whatever’s in your cabinet into an expensive-looking match striker. Bud vase, I’m coming for you.
Millennials, this frat party staple is having a shockingly fancy revival — and I’m genuinely not sure whether to be delighted or disturbed.
If your summer wardrobe is 99% linen (same), this childhood-coded fabric is your next obsession. It’s understated, versatile, and already all over Cool Girl closets.
Thanks to my recent hotel stays, I rediscovered my love of Special K Red Berries Cereal — and there’s no better use for it than this Strawberries & Cream Crunch recipe. Essentially, a sweet, salty, summery snack mix that hasn’t lasted more than a day in my apartment.

— Melissa Goldberg / Senior Editor / Washington, DC

☠️ A warning before your next shopping trip: These bottoms are being called the “Zara death pants” — and we can’t say we entirely disagree.

🥵 Leave it to the French to give us a master class in heat wave dressing. These are the outfit formulas Parisians swear by, and we’re copying No. 2 tout de suite.

👜 Tiny Performative Male Purse, you had your fun — but the era of the “B*tchy Boy Bag” has arrived. Erling Haaland, this is your time to shine.

👖 The denim style your mom couldn’t believe you spent your hard-earned babysitting money on is making a big comeback. Chances are, she still won’t understand.

👁️ Dig out your Urban Decay eye shadow palette. This very 2000s color is officially cool again — and, dare we say, it’s way more wearable than you remember.

A question for the room: There are men in The Odyssey, right? You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise since the women have dominated the press tour. There was Charlize Theron in an all-white look that could’ve been Dua Lipa’s backup wedding dress, Lupita Nyong’o with a purse that has our inner high school English nerds squealing, and, of course, Zendaya, who somehow managed to out-Zendaya herself. Just two examples: She single-handedly rehabilitated the most divisive 2010s sandal, and she delivered a look that had the Victoria’s Secret Angels filing for unemployment. But the real sleeper? Anne Hathaway, who has given Rihanna’s maternity style a run for its money. We enter into evidence: Hathaway cosplaying as the prettiest flower we’ve ever seen, the red jumpsuit that had women everywhere ready to wear their clothes backwards, the Prada gown that made costar Matt Damon compare her to royalty, and what we’d argue is the most stunning a human has ever looked. Chalk it up to The Fates, but there’s no better movie to promote while pregnant than one made for empire waists.

But the press tour fashion isn’t the only reason we’re ready to call her “mother.” There’s also all the candid and surprisingly funny things our favorite Boy Mom has been saying about parenting and her “buzzer-beater” pregnancy. That includes the Odyssey costar she hopes her sons grow up to be like (sorry, Matt), the celebrity fan mail she plans to hang in the nursery, her go-to pregnancy pants (honestly, groundbreaking), and her reaction to the “appropriately epic” baby gift she got on Today (same, Annie, same). Not to mention, this sweet moment with a reporter expecting her first child (we’re not crying, you’re crying). And as if raising two — soon to be three — kids doesn’t sound exhausting enough, this is all happening in during a banner year for Hathaway, between returning to Runway, her spooky stint as A24’s resident pop star, living through a dinosaur invasion, and scaring the crap out of us in the Verity trailer. You know what they say: Go big or go Homer.

Break out your bunny ears. After some of the most 👀 lyric changes since “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs,” it seems safe to say Ariana Grande has gotten back together with Ricky Alvarez, of “Thank U, Next” fame. For those unfamiliar with their lore, Ari and her then-backup dancer dated for about a year, before calling it quits in 2016. Now, fresh off her reported breakup with SpongeBoq, Grande is, a source told People, “taking things very slowly” with Alvarez and “not jumping into anything serious right away” — which aren’t exactly the words we’d use for someone who apparently spent Fourth of July with Ari’s family. Though it does sound about right for a Whole Foods run, a Central Park stroll, and lunch during a tour stop in Austin. All we need is for them to go on a doughnut shop date and we’ll officially have to declare it 2015 again.

So much for being a childless cat lady. After a lifetime of making her name as an Accredited Cat Freak™ (complimentary), it appears Taylor Swift may now be a Dog Mom. Travis, we blame you.

Think you know everything about your best friend? Ride Or Die’s Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) thought so too — until she found out the person she trusted for 20 years (Hannah Waddingham) was a highly trained international assassin. That small detail comes to light after the two cross paths at a charity gala: Debbie is there to support her husband, David (Jamie Parker), on track to become Britain’s next prime minister, while Judith — aka Whiptail — is there to take out a criminal. When the gig goes sideways, the friends are forced to go on the run, crossing Europe as they evade Albanian mobsters, law enforcement, and Judith’s boss (Bill Nighy). And while the Prime Video show has all the Bond-like hijinks you’d expect, it’s Spencer and Waddingham’s infectious chemistry that has reviewers praising it as the “perimenopausal TV of your dreams.”

Anthropologie Icon Juice Glasses

Caroline, senior commerce editor, here. I firmly believe the cuter your cup, the better your drink tastes — and nothing is cuter than Anthropologie’s Icon Juice Glasses, a cult favorite that’s spawned countless dupes. I always look forward to seeing what whimsical designs (think: pretzels, palm trees, and terriers) will be added to the collection, and I’m already eyeing the Halloween options (fellow secret goths, you’re welcome). Quality-wise, they’re thick and weighty — like a classic diner mug in glass form — and, I can attest, they survive the dishwasher like champs. I’ve been drinking smoothies, seltzers, and wine out of mine for two years, and they never cease to bring me joy.

“Thirst trap diplomacy”

— How some have described the work of one Norwegian Embassy chef. Eilif, we thank you for your service.

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