📖🛒🔪 IN THEIR CART FT. CAT 🔪🛒📖

An Alexander McQueen Blazer, a knife making class, and so much more...

Cat Zhang is a culture writer at New York Magazine's The Cut. So what’s Cat been shopping for lately? Let’s dive in…

1. Vintage Swank Metal Tie Clip: The tie clip is the brooch’s underrated and subtle sister. I have one shaped like a pair of scissors, and people love it.

2. Alexander McQueen Ruffle Inset Single-Breasted Blazer: Entirely aspirational and infeasible purchase, but ever since Caroline Polachek wore this to the GQ Man of the Year award I’ve thought about it nonstop.

3. Craftsman Avenue’s Forge a Knife for the Hunt Class: In the middle of class I ordered a lobster roll, because I’m a woman with vision.

4. Sulky Paper Solvy Water-Soluble Stabilizer: I’m currently in this frenzied period of creation that includes sewing, metalsmithing, painting, and embroidering. This paper is helpful for complex embroidery — you just print your design on the paper, stitch over it, and run you garment under water so the paper dissolves.

5. Bookforum subscription: Whenever a new issue gets shipped out I wait for the mailman like a drooling dog. It’s extremely foldable, so I usually shove it into the pocket of my cargo pants and carry it around with me.

6. Iris Murdoch’s The Sea The Sea: This novel comes highly recommended by several friends.

7. Visual Timer for Kids with Planning Board, 3-in-1 Visual Schedule for Kids: This hybrid timer-whiteboard checklist device is designed for kids with ADHD, I think. But we’re all suffering from attention deficit these days, so we need all the help we can get.