The Chai Collection

Fashion Show
A love letter written in silk and feathers, addressed to Hollywood and never sent: because it didn't need to be. Jonathan Anderson staged his first Dior cruise show at LACMA against smoke and sunset haze, and made you believe, for 75 looks, that glamour is not dead: it just moved to Los Angeles. Marlene Dietrich in Hitchcock. California poppies. Philip Treacy hats that spell out words like poems. The kind of collection that feels less like fashion and more like a dream someone had about fashion.

Shortfilm
A nine-minute animated poem about solitude and the quiet reasons we choose to keep going. No grand gestures: just a narrator's voice, an emotionally precise soundtrack, and the kind of stillness that gets under your skin. The studio that made it no longer exists, which somehow makes it feel even more precious. Some things were made once and never again.

Artist
The kind of painting that catches you mid-breath. Words dragged across canvas, completely disarming. He says the things you have been carrying around in your chest and somehow makes them look like art. Because they are.

Item
A quiet luxury essential. Soft cashmere wrapped in subtle symbolism: part Parisian nonchalance, part nomadic spirit. It’s the kind of piece that doesn’t try to stand out, yet somehow defines the entire look.

Actress
A new kind of Hollywood apparition. With an old-soul presence and an instinct for mood, she carries the legacy of cinema while feeling distinctly her own. There’s something hauntingly delicate in her aura, like a starlet wandering through a dream she hasn’t quite woken from.

Movie
A story where desire becomes a quiet rebellion. Between forests, rain, and stolen glances, passion grows against the weight of class and convention. It feels earthy and intimate; love not as fantasy, but as something wild enough to change a life.

Album
Ethel Cain (Preacher's Daughter 2022)
A Southern gothic confession whispered through reverb and shadow. Hymns turn into hauntings, where faith, sin, and girlhood bleed into one another. Preacher’s Daughter unfolds like a tragic American myth: beautiful, unsettling, and impossible to escape.

Fashion Show
Chloé (Fall/Winter 2026)
A quiet return to feminine freedom. Soft tailoring meets bohemian ease: flowing layers, earthy palettes, and silhouettes that move like poetry. Chloé reaffirms its romantic spirit: effortless, sensual, and deeply modern.

Book
The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
Madness, magic, and Moscow. A surreal, haunting masterpiece where the Devil visits the Soviet Union; it’s satire, romance, and philosophy all in one. I love how it turns chaos into poetry.

Movie
Jeanne du Barry (2023)
A portrait of elegance and rebellion. Maïwenn’s Jeanne is both muse and monarch of her own fate: the costumes, the longing, the restraint. It feels like Versailles dipped in melancholy.

Fashion Show
Valentino (Michele’s First Collection)
A baroque rebirth of romance. Where excess meets emotion: lace, volume, and symbolism. Michele turns Valentino into a poetic dreamscape, a love letter to craft and character.

Album
Jeff Buckley (Grace 1994)
A voice that feels like prayer and heartbreak intertwined. Every song drips with longing: raw, ethereal, and devastatingly human. “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” still sounds like an open wound dressed in velvet.
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Podcast
Fashion Neurosis (Bella Freud)
Conversations stitched with style, memory, and melancholy.
Tangled with identity, nostalgia, and desire. It feels like eavesdropping on a creative mind mid thought surrounded by velvet and ideas.
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Article
British Vogue
A mirror held up to modern intimacy. Playful but piercing, it dissects the quiet shame around wanting love in an age obsessed with irony and self sufficiency. It’s social commentary dressed as confession: clever, a little cruel, and painfully true.

Actor
Caleb Landry Jones
Unsettling, poetic, and almost otherworldly, he carries the chaos of genius on screen.
There’s fragility beneath the madness like a Rimbaud spirit lost in cinema.

Item
Balmain Military Jacket (2009)
The moment fashion picked up a guitar. Balmain turned structure into seduction: sharp shoulders, metallic threads, and rockstar nonchalance. It wasn’t just a jacket; it was a manifesto for a generation raised on glam and rebellion.

Exhibition
Marie Antoinette (V&A Museum)
A study in excess, elegance, and perception. Silk gowns and porcelain pastels; the exhibition captures a woman who became myth. Beyond the opulence lies the question of image: how beauty and tragedy can coexist within one crown.