The Designer Behind Alex Mill Loves The Row and This Shirt You Don't Have to Iron – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips June 18, 2026 at 05:30PM
📰 The Designer Behind Alex Mill Loves The Row and This Shirt You Don't Have to Iron
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What’s the opposite of gatekeeping? Welcome to “Payment Processing,” in which we ask stylish, generally cool people who’ve tried it all about their favorite fashion and beauty buys.
Alex Mill Creative Director Somsack Sikhounmuong has spent most of his career inventing trends, setting the standards for what it means to be stylish and generally setting the tone for how cool people want to dress. Having made the jump to the elevated basics brand after celebrated tenures with J.Crew and Madewell, the designer knows his way around color, fit and quality.
But that doesn't stop him from also appreciating the excitement of a gratis beauty product: Sikhounmuong's first thought when asked about his skin-care routine is to give the "free lotion at the gym" a shout out, adding that he slathers the body-care product on his face as well. He's also been known to use a high-end La Mer formula, though.
Sikhounmuong is adept at blending high and low when it comes to his entire shopping approach, culling favorite pieces from The Row, jackets that are "probably the price of a small car," but also Amazon finds.
Ahead, the creative shares the bag he carries everywhere he goes, the skin-care product he also uses in his smoothies, the Alex Mill piece he thinks people are sleeping on and more.
What's a luxury beauty item you're into right now?
When I'm not slathering free lotion at the gym — body lotion on my face — I'm at home putting on the La Mer Night Cream.
What's a drugstore beauty item you love?
I'm really into the Wildly Organic Coconut Oil, cold pressed. I use it on my hair — or what's left of my hair — on my face, on my body, on my hands, my feet, and guess what? In my smoothies, also.
What's one item you don't travel without?
So, currently, it's this silk eye mask that I got on Amazon. Lately, I've been really loving sleep. And the more sleep I get, the better I am when I'm awake. I'm nicer.
What's an accessory you're loving right now?
The Row Ponti little velvet slippers. These are the closest thing to being barefoot because they're just so comfortable and so flat and just so light.
What's a fashion item you're lusting after?
Anything from A.Presse, especially the leather jackets, which, let me tell you cost probably the price of a small car.
What's the last product a friend influenced you to buy?
My friend at work influenced me to buy a set of Matteo sheets. It makes, you know, when you climb into bed every night, just the best experience ever.
What's a wardrobe staple you love so much you've bought multiples?
Glasses from Oliver Peoples. I have a pair of Coleridge wireframe glasses.
What's a summer fashion staple you think everyone needs?
The vintage tee. I get mine when I'm in L.A. at Scout or when I'm in New York, I'll go to Raggedy Threads or Mothfood.
What's your favorite Alex Mill item?
The Mill shirt in Paper Poplin. I have multiples of them in all colors. You can dress them up, dress them down. You don't have to press them and you don't have to dry clean them. So, you can just pull them out and just wear them.
What's an Alex Mill item you think people are sleeping on?
As of late, it's our tote...It comes in a variety of sizes, big, medium, small. I carry it everywhere I go, from traveling across country to journeying down into the depths of the earth, a.k.a. the New York subway system.
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