Emily Adams Bode Aujla is the designer behind her eponymous clothing brand, and the first woman to show at Men’s Fashion Week in New York. With Benjamin Bloomstein, Aaron Aujla is responsible for Green River Project, which seems to have single-handedly inspired downtown’s recent wood-panel-obsessed aesthetic and can be found everywhere from the Bode store on Hester Street to restaurants such as the River and Cool World. Bode and Aujla got married this summer and live in Chinatown.
The Uruguayan-born chef’s Estela—a Bon Appétit darling when the magazine was readable, and neighbor to celebrity favorite Emilio’s Ballato, on Houston Street—found a vocal audience early on. Ignacio Mattos, who dates the chef and tableware designer Laila Gohar, has since opened Altro Paradiso, a SoHo favorite of Chloë Sevigny’s and Mary-Kate Olsen’s; Flora, the now closed Breuer-building restaurant; Rockefeller Center’s Lodi; and Corner Bar, in Chinatown’s Nine Orchard Hotel.
