A fresh take on classic styles, reimagined with Araks' expert craftsmanship, refined detailing, and unique color pairings.   Bold contrast piping accentuates the collection’s enduring silhouettes, designed to effortlessly mix and match and double as nonchalant city separates.   This season's color palette, inspired by nostalgic, cinematic summers, introduces memory-evoking hues of bubblegum pink, refreshing limeade green, and serene deep ocean blue, vividly capturing the spirit of summer.           ..read more

Meet the founders of George Rings, Chelsea and Jade Grimmius, two sisters with a passion for 18k solid gold. Launched in 2021 with a belief that the best jewelry is perfectly imperfect like all human beings, and its beauty increases with age, patina, and the marks of a life well lived. Discover a line of simple soft rounded shapes with heft–these pieces are solid, never hollowed out. Believe me when I say when you put this jewelry on you feel it, and it’s very satisfying. It is a pleasure to introduce a brand that we not only personally love, but also a brand whose values so closely align ..read more

Love In Color by Bolu Babalola  In her debut collection, internationally acclaimed writer Bolu Babalola retells the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology with incredible new detail and vivacity. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from long-erased places. With an eye towards decolonizing tropes inherent in our favorite tales of love, Babalola has created captivating stories that traverse across perspectives, continents, and genres. Love in Color is a celebration o ..read more

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua   Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, Not Too Late features the voices of Indigenous activ ..read more

    Willow Bralette and Yahvi Panty in thistle    The color that reminds us to feel, to love, and to be alive.   Georgia Cami & Guinevere Short in peony   innermost feelings soft spaces delicate treasures     The Emina Slip in bloom & Beatrice Bralette in nimbus   Camille Claudel Vertumnus and Pomona 1905         Dale Bralette & Yahvi Panty in quartz and lotus    The Gaudi House Museum, designed by Gaudi's friend Francesc Berengueri I Mestres. Photo by Amber Tyrre ..read more

Founded by sisters Lisa Lundy and Tara Elmore with a mission to make breast care essential to self-care, we are excited to offer their products at Araks.com.   Can you share a little about the two of you and where the idea for Complex Creatures comes from?   Tara: Well, for starters, we’re sisters. And in late 2016 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Naturally, it turned our worlds upside down. As I came through the other side of treatment and was cancer free (yay!) I was on a quest to not get cancer again. Meanwhile, Lisa was automatically considered to be high risk (because siste ..read more

  Migrations by Charlotte McConghy   Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is ch ..read more

  Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto   Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his fat ..read more

    Myriam and Ezra  in yarrow           Germaine & Ulla  in black         Hedi One Piece  in bondi             Elias and Ulla  in pitaya     ..read more

     @theslowfactory A Lab & A School. Human Rights + Environmental Justice System Design & Innovation     @unwrinkling Whitney Bauck, Journalist         @rrepairsshop Exploring repair, knowledge sharing, and other forms of making do.     @intersectionalenvironmentalist A climate justice collective radically imagining a more equitable + diverse future of environmentalism. @Atmos Magazine Climate and culture, inspired by nature.   @elizabethcline Elizabeth Cline, Autho ..read more