#332: Nicolaia Rips

Bullet Point Skirts, Superstition, Gravlax, and more.

Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Nicolaia Rips to share a taste of her taste on Perfectly Imperfect.

Nicolaia Rips is a New York City-based writer who grew up living in the Chelsea Hotel and wrote a great memoir about it titled Trying To Float. Rips has bylines in Interview, Airmail, NYT, NY Mag, Elle, and BOMB, and she’s an Editor and Staff Writer for HommeGirls, a clothing brand & magazine that’s featured icons such as Chloe Sevigny, Paloma Elsesser, and Emily Ratajkowski. Nicolaia is also a writer on the upcoming Soderbergh-directed HBO TV show Full Circle which recently premiered at Tribeca, but perhaps most importantly, she’s half of the underground olive review Instagram, Olives of New York. Lucky for us, she’s here to tell us what she’s been into.

Without further ado

Nicolaia Rips (instagram, twitter)

😵‍💫 Superstition

In the morning I attempt to predict my day based on the crema that sits on top of my espresso. Sometimes I have espressos with frightening inky s…