As Love Island USA closes out arguably its most chaotic season yet, Aftersun co-host Ciara Miller trades her villa commentary seat for a pool chair back in the Hamptons, and just in time, as she gears up to film the much anticipated Summer House Season 11. Before cameras roll again, she made a stop in Montauk, where Pandora kicked off its newest collection with a pool party.
Fresh off the plane from Fiji and cocktail in hand, Miller dishes her secret ship of the season. "I would have loved to see Gabe and Jen go through more of the Love Island experience together," she tells Cosmo, "and I wish we held onto Bea, I loved her energy."
Villa gossip aside, Miller was in Montauk for a reason. Enter Pandora Wonders, the brand's new ongoing collaboration platform, where a different creative gets handed the keys each year to reimagine a single material. Chapter one explores pearls, filtered through the brain of Harry Styles' longtime stylist, Harry Lambert, the genius behind the strong visual language that's defined Styles' look on stage and in the press for the last decade.
The 11-piece charm collection explores surrealism and feels like a cabinet of summer curiosities: an ice cream cone, a squid, a submarine, a mouse, a golden pea pod. Two charms got blown up to cartoonish scale—a spiky puffer fish and a frog, co-designed with Lambert, that looks like it’s caught mid-leap. Every charm is built around a one-of-a-kind freshwater baroque pearl, so no two are identical.
To mark the U.S. launch, Pandora took over the Montauk Beach House with a pop-up built around the collection, with jumbo pool floaties, cartoonish in size to match the new charms. Just because the Love Island season is over, the summer is definitely not.
Jessica (aka Jess) is a Senior Fashion Editor at Cosmopolitan, working across both fashion market and styling for print stories, as well as digital fashion and commerce coverage. Prior to joining Cosmo, she worked in fashion at Vanity Fair. Jess lives in New York City and loves spotlighting emerging designers you might not have heard of yet—while also being an unabashedly devoted Love Island fan (dating back to Season 1 of Love Island UK, that’s how serious). See more of her work here, and follow her on Instagram if you love her.
