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Welcome to part two of my Copenhagen coverage. If part one was a look into the intricacies of fashion week in Denmark, this edition is a more personal investigation of my time in the city. More of a traevel guide if you will. I’ll round up what I wore, what I shopped for, and what I ate — all the titillating details that you can save for your own visit somewhere down the line.

Thanks to Aligne for partnering with me on this piece. It’s been a big few years for women’s sports. In 2024, WNBA viewership jumped 170% The National Women’s Soccer League saw viewership jump 21% in 2025. Fashion, and it’s $850 billion womenswear industry is taking note. Back in 2024, I wrote a piece for Refinery 29 about fashion’s shift into the sports arena. Athletes have hired their own stylists, Coco Gauff doesn’t just have a New Balance sponsorship, she’s also dressed by Miu Miu.

Hi from the other side of Copenhagen Fashion Week, where I spent a glorious few days running around the city and eating bread, butter, and Comté sandwiches. What a life. It was my first time in the city, but I’ve been getting comments for years from loose acquaintances that they assumed I’d been there before. It could be my semi-Swedish roots, or my Ganni-esque penchance for throwing together funky colors and prints. Either way, I can report that everyone was correct in thinking I’d love it.

In all of my years as a writer, the word “cool girl” has been inserted into the headlines of my stories many, many times (like here!). In part because it’s clicky — as goes the cycle of the media internet. If we click, it shall continue. Lately, I’ve seen the phrase appear with even more fervor.

A few weeks ago I came across a video which I found highly disturbing as someone who loves the act of getting dressed. Jo Ellison of the Financial Times dropped the news that former-EIC of Vogue Paris Emmanuelle Alt doesn’t wear skirts. Categorically they have been struck from her wardrobe, and Ellison has seemingly followed suit! These are both women whose personal style I’ve often looked to for inspiration over many years.

I’ve gone on many incredible trips for my work over the last decade+. But there are just a few I’ve had the honor to go on that challenge you to reexamine your role as a visitor. One trip was to India with Anita Dongre, where I met women in a rural village outside Ahmedabad who were transforming traditional craftways into a sustainable income for their families. Another, I just got back from last week.

I’ve lived in New York for almost 13 years now, and I can’t remember a month that felt more electric in the city than this one. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention how much fun it was to be in the mix while the Knicks were in the finals. My mom was in town and for game four, Dylan and I took her to Bilt bar on Vanderbilt. She got the full NYC experience — a huge comeback, a nice neighborhood man offering her a chair, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk rolling up to chat and watch.

A few weeks ago the algorithm gods blessed me with an Instagram video from the creator Kamryn Renae, who is currently hiking the Pacific Crest trail with a pink backpack, a skort, and a bottle of nail polish. As someone who has done her fair share of backpacking and camping in the past, I was too busy being tired and dusty to care much about what I looked like. Every extra ounce of stuff makes a hike harder, so on the trail, everything has a purpose.

Welcome to another edition of Taeste Buddies. It’s a bi-weekly interview series that explores the idea of taste: How it’s shaped by our identities and spurred by our creativity. Each edition I chat with someone whose taste I admire, whether as a friend or from afar. Trinity is a 4th generation upstate New Yorker from Saratoga Springs. She’s also the founder of Golde (I’ve been drinking the brand’s turmeric lattes for years!), and now the author of her first cookbook, Eating at Home.

Last week, I plugged the words “GLP-1 pills online?” into Google. It was an action I feel a lot of shame in admitting to. But it’s true. I spent my early and mid twenties battling a list of eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia. So much of my brain and nervous system were used up in service to my illness. I used to Google restaurant menus before I met a friend out for dinner so I could know what had the least calories before I got there.