The things I wore and used the most in 2023

& welcome to Bad Influen¢e!

To kick off Bad Influen¢e (it looks bad not in logo form, but bear with me for the sake of this title’s namesake pun) — I thought I’d write an end of year list (just what the Internet needs another of, I know). I’m not going to write this list in the form of my favorite things I bought this year, because, tbh: a. I didn’t buy a ton this year and b. frankly — and I’m saying this as un-obnoxiously as I possibly can — it feels too annoyingly capitalistic/consumer-y to write such a list.
Instead, I thought I’d start this newsletter by telling you about the things I got the most use out of this year. And though most people who initially subscribe to this newsletter likely know me from my work in the beauty space over the past 10 years, I’ll be writing about fashion, here, too — just like I do in my actual job. Obviously, this list could have been 50 items long, but I’m capping it at 10, to start.

Also: even though I just wrote an over 1500-word story about Substack for my newsletter at work, I’m new to doing this myself…so again, plz bear with me.

Here we go!