Welcome to the first edition of Ferko’s Monthly Edit; our new monthly newsletter where we share what’s catching our attention in fashion, beauty, culture, and jewelry.
We start with Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, beauty’s current fascination with PDRN, a little Oscar-season glamour, and jewelry that works from morning to evening.
Editor’s Note
They’ve been saying for a while now that the ’90s are back. But with Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette taking over the conversation, that return suddenly feels less like a prediction and more like fact.
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is back on the fashion radar, and with her, that pared-back, polished, and quietly exact kind of glamour is too.
For our first edition of Ferko’s Monthly Edit, I felt like it’s the right place to begin. Add beauty’s current fascination with PDRN, a renewed appetite for all things minimal, and the jewelry that carries a look from morning to evening with almost no effort at all, and you have March.
Here’s what’s on our mind right now.
Love,
Ferko
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Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Again and Still
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is widely remembered for her nonchalant and understated style. It was also what made her the “It Girl” of the 90’s. A crewneck sweater on top of a Levi’s 517 bootcut jeans, a crisp button-down shirt, an acetate headband and jewelry so minimal it almost disappeared, until you realized the entire look was resting on exactly that restraint.
This is what still feels so “now” about her. She understood that style, often, asks for the chosen better.
After years of overstatement, there is something newly appealing about a woman who dresses with such quiet certainty. She never looked unfinished, yet never looked as though she had spent hours trying to be seen.
If there is a Carolyn-inspired jewelry mood worth revisiting now, it lives in pieces that sharpen the look. Delicate diamond studs. Slim hoops.
Rings that stack lightly. Jewelry that doesn’t need not announce itself from across the room, because you know it’s there.
BEAUTY
Why Everyone Is Talking About PDRN
Every few months, the beauty world gifts itself a new acronym. PDRN, however, feels slightly different than the others. Partly because it fits so neatly into the current beauty mood, and partly because it promises the kind of skin that looks rested, replenished, luminous, and convincingly alive.
So the fascination makes sense. After seasons of heavy contour, aggressive perfection, and all the labor of looking “done,” beauty has shifted towards something softer. Skin is meant to look calm now. Hydrated. Expensive, in that understated way people always pretend is effortless.
And once beauty moves in that direction, the rest of the look tends to adjust accordingly. Jewelry sits differently against fresh, light-filled skin. It feels cleaner, sharper, somehow more elegant, as though it has less to compete with.
There is, in that, a certain symmetry. The best beauty routines do not transform the face so much as return it to itself, only better rested. Good jewelry has long understood the same principle.
STYLE
From Morning to Evening, Without Rebuilding the Whole Look
There is a particular kind of chic in a look that moves easily from day into evening. What makes day-to-evening dressing so appealing is how little it asks of you; the right look needs only a subtle shift in mood. And few things can do that more beautifully than jewelry.
It is, perhaps, the easiest way to change the feeling of a look without undoing it. In the morning, a pair of diamond studs, a fine necklace, and one ring may be enough to feel polished and composed. By evening, a bangle at the wrist, another ring in the stack, or a tennis necklace, a sculptural cuff, or a pair of earrings with a little more length and light can bring a new kind of depth.
The point is not transformation for its own sake, but a look that gathers richness as the day goes on. Often, the most elegant effect is one that evolves almost imperceptibly.ing them all the more beautiful.
CULTURE
Ferko’s Fam Oscar Picks
Awards season is as much about cinema as it is about the red carpet, spectacle, and the annual pleasure of deciding which films deserve the fuss.
This year’s Best Picture line-up has range. There is speed and scale, grief and restraint, visual excess, quieter devastation, and at least a few titles that seem destined to split a room cleanly in two.
We narrowed it down to five that stood out to us most. Now let’s see if the Academy agrees.
Here are the five that made our cut:
The latest from Yorgos Lanthimos and his by-now unmistakable muse, Emma Stone, Bugonia is for when you want something stranger, sharper, and less interested in being universally liked.
Keep your tissues close: Hamnet delivers heartbreak with elegance rather than melodrama, and we would not let you walk into it unprepared.
Family tension, emotional precision, and the quiet force of things left unsaid; Sentimental Value unfolds with impressive ease. A must-watch.
Reminding us exactly why we have missed Paul Thomas Anderson’s cinema, One Battle After Another brings momentum, ambition, and plenty of action.
The title with the most heat around it, Sinners is stylish, talked-about, and difficult to ignore. If you have not seen it already, watch it. You can thank us later.
*The 98th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026
HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH
Red Carpet Jewelry, Edited for Real Life
Red carpet jewelry has always been a fantasy of scale. It arrives before the actress does. It is fabulous, of course, and a touch theatrical, which is part of the charm.
But the most interesting thing about red carpet jewelry is the intention behind it. The understanding that one piece, chosen properly, can alter the entire mood of a look. That is the part worth borrowing.
In real life, the scale changes, but the principle remains. A necklace can take on a different kind of ease when it sits closer to the collarbone, sharpening the neckline without asking too much of the rest of the look.
Earrings, too, work best when they retain a little length but leave the drama behind; a clean drop, a sculptural hoop, something with movement. The same goes for rings and bracelets, which can bring just as much intention to a look when they are worn with a lighter hand, whether that means a ring that draws the eye to the hand, a bracelet that gives a sleeve some structure, or a cuff that makes a simple look feel more resolved.
That is when red carpet glamour becomes easier to wear, without giving up the intention that made it compelling in the first place.
The Mood, This Month
If all of this adds up to anything, it is a preference for things that are understated and chosen well. So take your pick, and make it your own.
We’ll be back next month with more of what’s catching our attention.