My pal Odette Williams — the Australian-born, Brooklyn-based creator of Easy Cake and Easy Pasta and drinks occasion fame — at all times laughs whereas she talks, which is probably the most endearing high quality. She brings that very same laid-back model to cooking, entertaining, and getting dressed. “Thanks for pondering of this shabby Aussie,” she joked, once I requested if we may {photograph} her. Listed below are 5 appears Odette wears on repeat…
Black jacket: classic, related. Camisole: Sézane.
“I bought this classic jacket throughout college, and it’s nonetheless going! This jacket jogs my memory of my nan, who liked trend. She wore lipstick and fragrance till the very finish, and he or she hosted with a way of simple glamour, like bubbly Champs and a caftan. In Australia, you possibly can’t take your self too severely, it’s too f-ing scorching. I at all times have a couple of camisoles, too; you possibly can put on them with a pair of denims or beneath a sweater with it poking by means of.”
Jumpsuit: Lee, related right here and right here.
“By work, I’ve amassed an enormous cookbook assortment. My true north is Nigel Slater’s Actual Meals. It was the primary cookbook I purchased myself once I bought a paycheck out of faculty. The kind of meals he made felt like an actual permission slip to develop into the type of cook dinner I wished to be. He has primary chapters like potato, rooster, chocolate; and he makes scrumptious homey recipes. The images nonetheless holds up, which is uncommon as a result of cookbooks can date rapidly — he did very tight close-ups of the components 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 pal, I do know him.”
Males’s shirt: classic, related right here and right here. Swimsuit: Peixoto. Hat: Deus Ex Machina. Sun shades: Ray-Ban. Bracelet: Layla.
“Through the summer season, I stay in a swimsuit and secondhand males’s tailor-made shirt from eBay or Etsy. They’re lengthy sufficient that they’re virtually a shirt gown, so that you might be cooking and hanging out. In any other case, I’m in some type of caftan. After 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 every cookbook, I give myself a present. The most recent was this gold bracelet, which I put on every single day. I bought it at Layla in Brooklyn. My mother wore bracelets, and I bear in mind her often getting a brand new job or one thing and shopping for herself a deal with.”
Black gown: H&M. Sandals: byJAMES.
“This spring, I went on a visit with my pal Amy, and I packed so poorly. I didn’t have something to put on to dinner, so she let me borrow a black gown, and I wore it each evening. I used to be like, this gown is so wonderful. Because it’s linen, you possibly can put on it day or evening; you’re feeling comfy and put collectively, however not overdressed. The gown is from H&M for $35 — inform everybody studying this text to get on it!”
“I at all times 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 possibly can pull one over sweats and immediately 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 go 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 achieved forward of time, and, on the evening of the occasion, if the whole lot’s not achieved, however persons 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 provide your self a beat. As a result of that different stuff will get achieved, and that beat reminds you, Oh, yeah. That is what we’re all right here for.”
Thanks a lot, Odette!
P.S. Extra girls share their weeks of outfits, together with a mother speaking about stripes and grief and a meals editor with cat socks. Plus, 5 issues I observed at a drinks occasion at Odette’s home.
(Images by Christine Han for Cup of Jo.)
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