Guest Edits
Maurizio Cattelan is a contemporary artist whose definitive works include a sculpture of the Pope struck down by a meteor (La Nona Hora, 1999), an 18-karat-gold toilet (America, 2016), and a banana duct-taped to a wall (Comedian, 2019). Pierpaolo Ferrari is a photographer known for his hyper-real shoots for New York, W, and Kenzo. In 2010, the two Italians combined their affection for satire, absurdism, surrealist imagery, and style to co-found Toiletpaper magazine. The biannual publication has expanded to include exhibitions, pop-ups, and fashion and design collaborations with Seletti and Scarosso. Here, Cattelan and Ferrari share their taste for the colorful, amusing, and even practical.
The granddaughter of Missoni founders Ottavio and Rosita Missoni has fashion coursing through her veins. For more than 20 years, Margherita Maccapani Missoni has held various roles at her family’s fashion house—unmistakable for its zigzag knits—including house ambassador, accessories director, and creative director of M Missoni. She’s branched out with acting roles, her own children’s brand, and collaborations with Away and Pottery Barn. Two years ago, Margherita launched Maccapani, an Italian-made collection that expresses her own stylistic point of view through colorful, feminine, post-streetwear fashion. Her must-haves include an Anine Bing lace bra, a Maccapani moto T-shirt, and, naturally, a Missoni zigzag bikini
Chef Thomas Keller has earned too many awards to list. His Michelin stars have formed their own constellation. He set a new standard of cuisine and hospitality with his most well-known restaurants, the French Laundry, in Napa, and Per Se, in New York City. Keller has crossed over from celebrity chef to pop cultural figure. Last year, he appeared as himself in Season Three of The Bear, and he’ll join José Andrés, Alice Waters, and Jamie Oliver on the four-episode season of Chef’s Table: Legends, premiering next week on Netflix. In the meantime, Keller shares his taste for a Fellow electric kettle, Warby Parker progressive lenses, and more.
“Danish design” is too simplistic a term for Louise Roe’s aesthetic. The Copenhagen-based designer’s home collection, spanning tabletop, ceramics, textiles, furniture, and lighting, reflects a cross-pollination of Scandinavian minimalism, Bauhaus, Art Deco, and 1930s brutalism. Roe, who often collaborates with her daughter Sophia, established her design company in 2010 and opened her Copenhagen gallery and café in 2018. She favors pants from the Row, the Leica SL3-S, Kindred Black yuzu lip balm, and more.
When he’s not tending to his beloved dogs, Spellman is creative director of Mark Cross, one of America’s first luxury heritage brands. Founded in Boston in 1845, Mark Cross provided leather goods to the horse-and-buggy set. The brand came to prominence under the stewardship of Gerald and Sarah Murphy, Americans living in France in the glamorous social orbit of Hemingway, Picasso, and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Nearly a century later, Spellman, who worked with Annie Leibovitz and brands including Gap, Moncler, and Banana Republic, is re-invigorating Mark Cross with his modern eye. Here, a few of his favorite things.
A Brit living in Paris, Williams launched the independent interiors publication Neptune Papers in 2021. Named after his dog, the biannual issue features tenured members of the design elite, such as Jacques Grange and Bunny Williams, alongside the new guard, like Olympia Gayot of J.Crew. Actress and furniture collector Julianne Moore is on the cover of Neptune Papers’s recently published eighth issue. Williams cultivated his eye with stints in far-flung places: Turkey, the Philippines, rural Canada, the Shetland Islands, and the Champs Élysées, where he worked as a buyer for Galeries Lafayette. Here, he shares a few of his must-haves.
After the birth of her fifth child, Celia Muñoz was a de facto expert in children’s wear. In 2012, she founded La Coqueta—Spanish for “well groomed”—a children’s collection based on the traditional designs, defined by hand-smocking and shirring, bought on trips to her native Granada. She soon set up a flagship in London, where she lives with her family, and expanded La Coqueta’s reach globally. Muñoz’s taste for adult things includes vintage Van Cleef & Arpels, Westman Atelier lipstick, Loewe sneakers, and more.
Suki Waterhouse is a model, musician, and actress known for her work with Burberry and Daisy Jones & the Six. Poppy Jamie is an author, podcaster, and founder of mental-health platform Happy Not Perfect. The pair of British It Girls are best friends and collaborators, who previously helmed a handbag line called Pop & Suki. More recently, they launched With Gratitude, an app designed to allow groups of friends to share gratitude lists, continuing a practice that Waterhouse and Jamie started during the coronavirus lockdowns. Here, they share a few things they’re grateful for.
The founder of Perfumehead specializes in extraits de parfum approached with a filmmaker’s sensibility. Fragrances such as La La Love and Somewhere conjure Los Angeles, where Giles lives. Canadian Tuxedo is his ode to Canada, where he grew up and began his career at Holt Renfrew. Giles went on to build some of the biggest beauty brands around, including Benefit Cosmetics, Perricone MD, Too Faced, and Peace Out Skincare before launching Perfumehead, named as a fragrance fanatic’s version of “sneakerhead.” In addition to scents, Giles goes crazy for Dr. Keightley’s Mouthwash, Dear Annabelle’s Superlatives Place Cards, the Butler’s Closet’s travel clothes brush, and more
For nearly 20 years, Alison Loehnis has been a key steward of Net-a-Porter, growing from a sales-and-marketing role to the Ad Interim C.E.O. and President of Yoox Net-a-Porter. During her tenure, the company has set the standard for luxury online retail. She launched the Outnet and Mr. Porter; spearheaded Net Sustain, Net-a-Porter’s sustainability initiative; and expanded into home and beauty. The native New Yorker—who now lives in London—knows the luxury market. Here, she shares her go-tos.
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