Weather provided, tonight we’ll be at the official opening of a huge INEZ & VINOODH retrospective at Kunstmuseum, Den Haag. It’ll be a show to our hearts, if only because the incredible New York-based duo has shot so much for our magazines: covers of STEFANO PILATI, of DEMNA, of KYLE MacLACHLAN and lots more. ■ The fellow Dutchies have both appeared on a cover in their very own right: VINOODH MATADIN on Fantastic Man no. 6 (2007) and INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE on The Gentlewoman’s second issue (2010). ■ They’ve been a great help to us even while we were plotting the launch of Fantastic Man (that’ll be 21 years ago, thank you). And they also shot the brand new cover of our sister title, out this week, and to be enjoyed above. Wow! ■ ‘Can Love Be a Photograph’ is on in The Hague until 6 September.

It’s been an EVENTFUL week, most of which I won’t bother you with, but earlier this week OTTOLENGHI opened his first Amsterdam outpost. ■ YOTAM stressed how pleased he was to be back in town; he used to live in Amsterdam. We figured out that we used to frequent the same clubs back in the 90s (RoXY on Wednesdays, iT on Thursdays, COC on Fridays and De Trut on Sundays) so we surely crossed paths before… ■ I took the opportunity to reread CAROLINE ROUX’s great profile of YOTAM OTTOLENGHI in a Fantastic Man from 2011. It’s as yummy as you’d expect from a top chef’s profile: “Levantine dishes that startle the palate with their fresh, zingy flavours, and the eye with the sort of intense multicoloured beauty more often associated with hand-painted French wallpaper or Japanese textiles.” ■ Ottolenghi Amsterdam is in the new Mandarin Oriental f.k.a. The Conservatorium Hotel, opposite the Stedelijk Museum of modern art. Try the ‘Warm Butter Bean Mash, Chard Chilly Salsa’ and be blown away.

A brand new lot of jeans, Lot Nr. 2, has arrived at Swedish menswear label RUBATO (since 2018). ■ It’s modelled after the perfect 1950s jeans silhouette, with a high rise, a straight top block and a leg that falls clean from hip to hem. “Nothing exaggerated, nothing corrected,” as RUBATO describes it. In other words, classic but totally modern. ■ The Lot Nr. 2 jeans come in three colours: indigo, black and ecru. Above, worn with RUBATO’s Mercer jacket, which also takes its inspiration from workwear. ■ Please have a browse at the entire collection - it’s not just fabulous clothes, but the jaunty photos (the knitwear!) make other online shops pale in comparison.

What does today’s Oblique Strategies card pick say? ‘Just carry on.’ Note taken. We will, and we hope you will too. We have to, friends!