We're Back! And Nobody is Coming to Save Us
Plus: Where to shop for cool jewels in Mexico City
Greetings, Rough Cut Listeners!
Yes, we are back for a fourth season and we can’t believe we are still at it and that you're still listening and supporting us! Thank you for that. We live in trying times, and I suffer no delusions about laughter and joy being a form of resistance. I won't tell you that Rough Cut is somehow making anyone's life better because of our irreverent sense of humor. I think that’s placating bullshit and, frankly, intellectually lazy. What I will say is that Rough Cut has created a real sense of community, for us as well as many of you who reach out to tell us you feel the same. That is a wonderful thing, and it’s something we want to continue to foster with our show—as community is more important now than ever, and nobody is coming to save us. —Alain
Listen to co-hosts JB Jones and Alain Simic hash it out on the first episode of Rough Cut Season 4 (Emili will be back with us next week):
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Where to Shop for Cool Jewelry in Mexico City
I spent my 50th birthday with a friend in Mexico City a few weeks ago — living out one of my top Bucket List trips at long last! And I discovered that the city is as fun and gorgeous as everyone says it is. Maybe even more so; it’s full of incredible architecture, restaurants, and bars, museums, and retail emporiums so seriously chic and fantastically curated, my senses were in absolute heaven.
I wasn’t on the hunt for jewelry specifically, but I ran smack dab into a lot of it just walking through the vibrant neighborhoods (we hit Juarez, Polanco, Roma Norte, Kondessa, Historic District). Here are a few brands to hit up when you next make it to CDMX! —Emili
Avec
Avec is an experimental-but-very wearable jewelry collection created by Georgina Prieto that “finds its space between art and design,” according to its website. I’m still tempted to buy the above “Drip,” ring, and also have my eye on the below chain necklace anchoring a smooshy glass-stone pendant.
Blobb by Sofia Elias
Blobb, a creative jewelry and design atelier from artist Sofia Elias, is so beautifully amorphous and unconventional-feeling, I love it. The Guadalajara-born designer and architect designs playgrounds, too, can’t you tell?! She calls her resinous jewelry “miniature sculpture for the body.” The entire brand is very Dua Lipa-coded (colorful, stackable, not crazy precious). Love it.
Sophie Simone
Sophie Simone creates highly textured and patina-ed pieces in affordable metals that weave in Mexican and South American motifs and techniques. There’s an elegance in even her largest-scale pieces that I am crazy about.
