The Tastemaker
When Andrea Miller opened the whimsical boutique Eponymy in Park Slope, Brooklyn back in 2008, her intention was to revive “the lost art of shopping.” Fed up with the fast, impersonal, and disposable ways of mass-market retailers, Miller aimed in the opposite...
Since founding her label Zero + Maria Cornejo out of a Nolita storefront in 1998, 50-year-old Chilean-born designer Maria Cornejo has won hearts over with her sophisticated, sculptural, functional creations, which incorporate a little bit of edge. You can get...
Art runs throughout Kyle DeWoody’s family. Her mother is art collector Beth DeWoody, and her father, Jim DeWoody, and older brother, James “Carlton” DeWoody, are artists. So it’s no surprise that Kyle co-founded the art-meets-design space Grey...
Cynthia Rowley is the type of woman who you look at and think, how does she do it? On top of designing her eponymous clothing line, Rowley is married to Half Gallery head Bill Powers, mother of two daughters, has a multitude of side projects, and maintains a...
Whenever curator Stacy Engman walks into a room, flashbulbs follow and heads turn. Her outrageous wardrobe – which includes 800 Philip Treacy hats, cat-eye shades festooned with Swarovski crystals, and over-the-top couture creations – makes her stand out...
From growing up in a household filled with midcentury Marimekko and Eames pieces to visiting museums filled with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the fashion designer Lisa Perry has always been surrounded by the look of the decades that inspire her most: the...
As the co-founders of New York-based Art Production Fund, Doreen Remen and Yvonne Force Villareal have helped numerous artists realize their larger-than-life dreams. They started the non-profit organization in 2000 and over the past...
In 2002 Kathy Grayson entered Jeffrey Deitch’s now-shuttered Deitch Projects armed with a Dartmouth degree in art history and studio art to ask the gallerist for a job. According to Deitch, he knew immediately that Grayson had that “it”...
Back in the ’90s Stefania Bortolami caught the eye of power gallerist Larry Gagosian, who poached her from London’s Anthony d’Offay Gallery so she could handle his own stable of artists. As Gagosian’s director, Bortolami worked with...
It was a fruitless search for Chloé jeans that sparked a retail revolution on the Internet. Natalie Massenet, who was a fashion editor at Tatler in London in 1999, was looking to buy a pair of jeans by the French luxury label to no avail. So she decided to do...
