Loose Threads
Brands like Urban Decay and TA3 are hiring OnlyFans stars as faces, per Business of Fashion. Ari Kytsya’s video for Urban Decay “reached a million organic views in under 24 hours, the fastest an Urban Decay video has achieved that sort of visibility; it’s now the brand’s top-performing Instagram post in 2025 so far.” Brands’ fear of generating controversy through campaigns seems to have been replaced by an unquenchable thirst for impressions.
Jennifer Lopez was reportedly denied entry to the Chanel store in Istanbul. She allegedly responded by saying, “OK, no problem.”
Puck’s Lauren Sherman interviewed me for her Fashion People podcast. We got into the nitty gritty of Goop’s business.
We are in the slow news season, so allow me to draw attention to things I wore recently (and loved!) to do media appearances to promote Gwyneth: this floral drop-waist dress by Nicholas, which is on sale for $276; this Self Portrait top that looks great in photos and videos; and this Dibs mascara that lasts all day and goes on so easily (get a discount with code AMYODELL). I also walked around Manhattan all day in these highly comfortable flat Margaux sandals.
If you work from home like me, make your own coffee every day, and enjoy coffee subscriptions, Trade sells special cold brew-optimized beans and currently offers a discount.
And now, onto the recap!
'And Just Like That' Season 3 Episode 11 Recap: The Woman Has Real Estate Issues
We have one more episode of And Just Like That left. Though I am among the many who are hate-watching it, I’ll be kind of sad when it ends. (Even though I totally don’t trust this team to stay away from the franchise if HBO Max or another streamer throws gobs of money at them to kick it back up again.) I got pleasantly used to turning off my better judgment each week to settle in for 30 to 45 (!) minutes of Carrie and her gals doing various versions of nothing. I might even miss cringe-y Aidan the way I kind of missed messy Che after their drama was replaced with stable Joy and her well-behaved dogs.
I think this sadness points to a dearth of female-focused, fashion-oriented shows. While sports content explodes on streamers, those of us who just want to watch shoe-obsessed women talk about their dates over French toast simply don’t have that many options.
That said, these characters are really running out of things to talk about, because this episode was about little more than Carrie’s feelings about real estate. The writers have added more depth to Carrie's relationship to real estate than maybe any other relationship on this show.
Ahead, your character-by-character recap — our second-to-last!
Carrie
For an episode that came in at under 30 minutes, a significant portion was allocated to Carrie ordering Thanksgiving pies. Basically nothing happened to Carrie this episode except… she ordered too many pies and longed for her old apartment. This show cannot end with Carrie’s one true love being that apartment. She walks down her old street while talking on the phone to Miranda about all the pies she ordered, cradling one of those giant clutch bags that’s kind of like a baby but could double as a murder weapon. She encounters Lisette, she of curly bangs, wearing a particularly garish gold jacket with furry trim. Lisette invites her to a pre-Thanksgiving party, then nostalgic music plays while Carrie cuddles her pillow-sized bag and stares longingly at her old stoop.
She later visits her editor in her gorgeous office to talk about her manuscript. Her editor tells her it’s “fan-fucking-tastic” and asks when she’s going to get the last chapter. A flash of offense crosses Carrie’s expression — Duncan Reeves would have built an effigy for his personal Carrie Bradshaw worship after reading her ending. But her editor is a “happy ending gal” and doesn’t want this woman, who lives in the year 1846, to end up alone.
Over drinks with Seema, Carrie confesses to feeling afraid of going to Lisette’s party, not because it seems destined to be full of Upper East Side hipsters, but because it’s in her old building. And Seema, god bless, asks if she’s afraid “to see what a dump you lived in”? She asks Carrie if she wants to buy Duncan’s Harry Potter apartment under her stairs because he’s not renewing his lease and the owners want to sell. Sad about Duncan, Carrie lashes out at Seema, who explains she thinks Carrie should own the basement for re-sale value. Carrie should also renovate her kitchen for re-sale value, but maybe inordinate time will be devoted to that in the series finale, because what else is there to talk about?
Carrie goes to Lisette’s party, which is in her old place because Lisette lives there now. She’s erected a wall to create a separate living space for Ezekiel, her roommate, but Lisette got the closet. Carrie passes through it wistfully as Ezekiel passes out turkey tacos.
At home, Carrie sits down to write an epilogue about men who return to New York City. Really, she should follow Duncan to London and leave her boring, superficial friends behind, but that seems unlikely. At least her amazing house has furniture now?
Charlotte
Charlotte spends the entire episode doing one of two things: listening to Harry talk about his inability to get an erection, or longing for Rock to be more gender-conformist and appearance-oriented.
Harry cracks a joke about how polishing the silverware for Thanksgiving would be fine with him because he’d be rubbing something hard that stays hard — unlike his dick. He complains about going to Miranda’s for the holiday because he fears she makes her stuffing with white bread. Charlotte says she’s making the stuffing with focaccia and oysters and sage like she always does. When Rock enters the room wearing her Thoroughly Modern Millie costume, looking feminine, sappy music plays and Charlotte practically cries at how happy she is that her kid is so conventionally attractive. She later tells Carrie and Miranda that Rock looks “so grown-up and so pretty, but I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that.”
At the play, Charlotte practically tears up at how pretty Rock looks as she asks Carrie to take a photo because Rock asked her not to. Later, she has to hear Harry talk about looking at porn fruitlessly on his iPad and whimpers over photos of Rock in the play. So instead of being proud of her child for their talent, Charlotte is seemingly just relieved that they are beautiful when conforming to feminine gender norms.
Miranda
Miranda and Brady have a big fight because Miranda has invited Mia, about to give birth to Brady’s child, to Thanksgiving. Joy is made deeply uncomfortable by the fight and seeing all of Miranda’s baggage laid bare and broad before her like a lost luggage office at the airport.
Seema
Seema and Adam tell each other they love each other in the shower. Adam asks Seema to meet his sister. Seema is so smitten she agrees to go to their gluten-free, vegan Thanksgiving where everyone will probably have BO.
LTW
LTW spends the episode dealing with Herbert’s dejection over losing the election. Given he has all the appeal as a human being as one of Anthony’s bakery items, it’s not surprising to hear he lost by more than 7 points to, as one of the moms tells him at the school play, “a community activist in bad shoes.”
At home in the morning, LTW wears one of her fabulous outfits that makes her look like an inkblot in a cape, while Herbert sits next to a window wearing an overpriced sweater hoodie. He tells her he can’t bear going to the office because he lost and it’s so embarrassing, and she she swans off to her editing suite with dreamy Marion. Please, writers, make a bold choice and have her leave Herbert before we wrap all of this up!
Giuseppe and Anthony
Still struggling to feel invested in this relationship? So is Anthony. After Giuseppe proposes to him in the Bergdorf dressing room, where Anthony is trying to buy him a Lanvin sweater — because what says love if not designer knitwear? — Anthony confesses to Carrie that he’s having second thoughts. There’s still time for the writers to have Giuseppe leave Anthony and go running back to his strange mother.
