The Names of Mary-Kate Olsen's Horses
Buy a house in Connecticut, replace all your door handles, order chicken soup, read a fucking book!
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The painter Sam McKinniss says, “It’s time to consider gifting a second home in Litchfield County to that special someone in your life. I mean, why not. You missed out on a pretty good window, but if you need the number of my real estate agent, he’s a real bitch, but also a shark and more than capable of securing a most favorable deal. His name is David Brooke. Yes, like the Times columnist.” Call him today: 860-670-8081.
James Joyce scholar Susie Lopez says, “go to P.E. Guerin and replace all of the door handles in your entire apartment.” This is really good advice, please PAUSE, click the link, and think about doing it. Change things no one else would bother to change. Like the taps on your sink. (You can take them with you when you move out.)
I wanted my husband, Joe, to get a custom suit for our wedding from Martin Greenfield. Martin made the vintage Armani suits for Wolf of Wall Street, because Armani wasn’t able to recreate their own designs from the 1980s. And I heard he only charged $1,700 for walk-ins. A steal. Joe disagreed; he wanted to get something off the rack that he could “spill on.” Martin is dead now. Go figure. But you can visit his associates.
If you live on the Upper East Side: Order in caviar and chicken soup from Sable’s. At the same time, obviously.
Get your haircut by Ashley Javiar. He has a Schnabel portrait, of himself, hanging above his station. He also did the bob for Annabelle Dexter-Jones on Succession. In fact, he seems to cut her hair on a weekly basis; she’s always in there on her phone. (She is literally on the front page of his website. Not a bad calling card!)
The handles on my 10-year-old XXL Rimowa fell off a few years ago and the gentleman at Waverly Leather & Luggage glued on thick black leather straps as replacements. Innovative! He said Rimowa handles fall off constantly. But the leather lasts “a decade.” It was a same-day operation. (For the record, I think Rimowa is totally overrated and I most frequently use a carry-on Samsonite. No link exists for the non-brand situation I have going on.)
Mary-Kate Olsen’s Horses
Equestrian Sarah Mankoff sends me yearly updates on what Mary-Kate Olsen is wearing in the riding arena. The sad truth is: Mary-Kate has all but stopped competing on American soil. (She hasn’t competed in the USA since 2022.) Still: I’ll never forget the first question Mankoff ever answered for me: What zip-up is Mary-Kate Olsen wearing in this post-ride/off-duty snap (see bottom left)?
A white-on-white Tailored Sportsman Icefil Zip Up. “The breeches are Tailored, too (that’s the brand). Her boots don’t look like Parlantis, which I’ve seen her wear in post-divorce pics. Sarkozy is also carrying her Samshield helmet. She switched to Charles Owen at some point after this. A safe brand. Bella wears it, too.”
Mankoff also texted me a photo of Olsen wearing a velvet Charles Owen helmet (see top right). “Very classy, very rarely seen because velvet helmets are really hot! I can’t find this particular velvet helmet on the site — they must have stopped selling it! Which makes sense because they can’t be popular enough in showjumping to have that many styles. I imagine popular with fox hunters. It’s also notable that she isn’t wearing a hairnet under her helmet. She can pull it off, but you wouldn’t catch me dead with so many flyaways in the show ring.”
There are five active horses registered in Mary-Kate Olsen’s name. CD LLC is the very benign LLC that Mary-Kate has her horses under. (It’s of note that Bella Hadid does not use an LLC, but owns her horses under her own name. Very rare!)