‘Tis the season to be jolly–and generous! With the best holiday hostess gifts, you’ll be so proud of these presents you won’t want there to be anything secret about your Santa. There’s a whole host of holiday entertaining types but whether you’re joining Mistletoe Mary for mince pies, Hanukkah Harriet for latkes, or caviar for Auld Lang Syne, we have the proverbial star on the top of the Christmas tree for every occasion. Put a bow on it with Gohar World’s mother of pearl serving set, cheers to festivities with a striped set of Murano glass tumblers, and help make the best charcuterie board with a cheese trio ornament set.
Vogue’s Favorite Holiday Hostess Gifts:
For Mistletoe Mary
She’s Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen, help your favorite Cupid deck the halls–and the dining table and the powder room and her co-op lobby–with a festive touch she hasn’t thought of yet like Solid Wiggles’s Holiday Cosmo cocktail jello cake, House and Parties’s marbled Christmas crackers which are too pretty to open and candy cane-striped blown glass tumblers for festive toasts.
For Hannukah Harriet
She goes hard for eight nights, it’s your job to ensure her flame is burning bright. You get her eight gifts, one naughty, one nice, one with just enough spice. Whether it’s Super Smalls’s Menorah craft kit or a different kind of Hannukah candle, ahem, a challah one.
Ina Garten Girlie
She read Ina’s memoir and watched the Martha doc and instead of the takeaway being to not mess with the IRS she’s now obsessed with being the host with the most. Help her be the Barefoot Contessa she was meant to be and master the most famous roast chicken with a knife sharpening kit; if only you could put a bow on Jeffrey.
President of the Gen Z Heart Club
Your resident hopeless romantic, she lives in hope of spotting Swelce exiting Corner Shop, is wide-eyed for Love is Blind and already has a Vogue Weddings Pinterest board. She’s headed to Aspen for New Year’s ready to strike a match but until then she’ll be watching Sex and the City reruns eating the SJP x Murray’s cheese board pining after her Mr. Big.
The Drop-Off Doyenne
Tribeca is her playground but she knows all the actual ones, too. She made a post-Pilates pilgrimage uptown to the new Toteme store, waited in line at the Row sample sale after drop-off and thinks Chappell Roan is the name of an Upper East Side private school. Treat this matriarch to luxury Oreos or fresh fruit if she doesn’t allow sugar in her home.
For Auld Lang Syne
You don’t have to give her a kiss at the stroke of midnight, but you should bring a gift for your New Year’s Eve host. Everyone else is bringing Champagne, how about a Meyer Lemon tree to make lemonade from lemons for the new year? Or, spoil her with some Siberian caviar and Porta Piccolo spoons to dole it out with.