I'm Upgrading My Kitchen the Fashion-Person Way: 27 Gadgets I'm Browsing

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After almost two years of living in my apartment, I walked into my kitchen last week and suddenly hated everything. It's like that sometimes. Catering to the whims of my fickle aesthetic tastes, I decided that I needed some new gadgets and pretty things to fill up my counters and cupboards. But of course, as someone who lives and breathes the ornamental, I wanted to upgrade my kitchen the fashion-person way—with appliances and objects that aren't just useful, but also stunning to look at. Making your morning coffee just hits different with a charming mug and a delightful milk frother and espresso machine. My mission translated into hours spent scrolling through Amazon, Nordstrom, Ssense, and more and amassing a cart full of potential buys. Ultimately, I found the exact pieces to upgrade my space.

Buying bulky blenders and pedestrian coffee makers isn't the only route anymore. The new companies balancing form with function have made beautiful gadgets and kitchen knickknacks a possibility. Now, every appliance is a chance to flex your design prowess, and I definitely have with the list of cool items below. From everyday pots and pans to didn't-know-you-needed-it finds from Amazon, keep reading for 27 beautiful (and extremely useful) things to add to your kitchen now.

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Fashion Market Editor

Indya Brown is a fashion editor, stylist, and writer living in Los Angeles. While going to school at Columbia University in New York City, she got her feet wet in the fashion industry interning at Elle magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and New York magazine's The Cut. After graduating in 2016, she joined The Cut as a fashion assistant, eventually working her way up to fashion editor. There, she worked on a multitude of projects, including styling inbook feature stories for New York magazine's print issue, writing and pitching market stories for The Cut, and serving as fashion lead for The Cut's branded content. While New York has been her home for over 10 years, she moved to Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 for a new chapter. Now she is a fashion market editor for Who What Wear, focusing on emerging designers, rising trends on and off the internet, interior design, and BIPOC creatives and brands. Aside from her duties as a fashion market editor, Brown is also a freelance stylist and writer, working on national print and video commercial campaigns for Sephora, The Independent, and Cadillac. Her bylines also include Harper's Bazaar, Vox, and The New York Times. But once the computer goes down and the emails turn off, she's likely eating her way through Koreatown, hunting down vintage furniture, scoping out new outrageous nail designs to try, or taking a hot cycling class.