Guest Edits
When Angela Westwater co-founded the gallery now known as Sperone Westwater, in 1975 on Greene Street in New York City, she was a rarity—a woman pioneering SoHo’s burgeoning art scene. Just four years earlier, she had arrived in New York, a recent Smith grad from Ohio, who landed a job as a “gallery girl” at John Weber before serving as managing editor of Artforum. Sperone Westwater was early to exhibit Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, and American minimalists including Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt. In 2010, the gallery moved to a Foster + Partners–designed building at 257 Bowery, where Westwater continues to represent artists including Mario Merz, Helmut Lang, and Richard Long. As she celebrates the gallery’s 50th anniversary, Westwater shares what’s caught her well-trained eye.
It’s been five years since Mélanie Masarin launched Los Angeles–based Ghia, the non-alcoholic aperitif that caught the wind of the booming sober-curious movement to become one of the preferred NA beverages of the fashion and creative sets. Born in France, Masarin spent her summers steeped in the apéritivo culture of the Mediterranean. After moving to the U.S. and taking a marketing role at Glossier, she stopped drinking and found herself empty-handed and in search of a non-alcoholic drink that didn’t make her feel left out of the party. Ghia’s bittersweet flavors and branding primed it for the Instagram-friendly spritz culture. Ahead of the release of a new blood-orange flavor, Masarin shares her must-haves.
Todd Snyder has come a long way from detasseling corn in Huxley, Iowa, to presiding over a $130 million American men’s-wear brand with 24 stores throughout the country. He switched his major at Iowa State from engineering to fashion design and scored an internship at Ralph Lauren, where he eventually ended up working under John Varvatos. During his time at J. Crew, Snyder designed the wildly successful, slim-fitting Ludlow suit and created the brand’s first men’s shop, known as the Liquor Store, in TriBeCa. In 2011, he launched his own collection of sophisticated basics, defined by knit polos, pleated khakis, trench coats, and suits. Ahead of his Spring 2026 show during New York Fashion Week, Snyder shares his style guide
The fourth-generation member of the Buccellati family designs for the Milanese jewelry house alongside her father, Andrea Buccellati. Known for its Renaissance-inspired goldsmith techniques and open-work jewels, Buccellati was founded in 1919 by Lucrezia’s great-grandfather Mario. She is the first female join the creative team, conceiving Buccellati’s Romanza engagement-ring collection and the Blossoms silver collection. A competitive equestrian, Lucrezia lives in Wellington, Florida, with her husband, David Wildenstein, heir to the Wildenstein art dynasty, and their two sons. Here, she shares her style guide
A film producer and trained chef, Allison Sarofim is known in New York society as a fabulous hostess. Her notorious Halloween party has drawn guests including Naomi Campbell, Andy Cohen, and Demi Moore with its themes ranging from Freudian Slip to Calder’s Circus, to Murakami anime. For years, Sarofim has spent part of the year in Hawaii at her family’s home, a spectacular waterfront property designed in 1967 by Vladimir Ossipoff and originally owned by Clare Boothe Luce, the diplomat and writer of the 1936 play The Women. Last year, Sarofim launched Loulu Hawai‘i, a luxury skin-care line developed in Oahu’s Mānoa Valley. Here, she shares what’s caught her eye
Clark Chung spent more than 10 years as a fashion designer, working for brands including Calvin Klein and J. Crew, before opening the November 19 Shop in 2016. Now located on New York City’s Lower East Side, the store specializes in unique housewares, ceramics, jewelry, vintage fashion, and objects sourced from small-batch artisans from Japan and around the world. Nothing in the store—including the knit socks, sweaters, beanies, and home scents from his own line, Mr. Chung—is mass-produced or widely distributed. If you see something you like, act fast. Here, Chung shares what’s caught his eye
Caitlin Mociun launched her jewelry collection, Mociun, in 2011. Inspired by the Bauhaus principles, the collection includes one-of-a-kind pieces made with rare gemstones, diamond-encusted pizza charms, and sculptural statement jewelry. Her husband, Tammer Hijazi, is a co-founder of Bower Studios, a contemporary-furniture-and-product-design firm with a focus on mirrors. The husband-and-wife team recently reconceptualized Mociun’s Williamsburg location as a joint store and showroom for Mociun and Bower. Here, they share their taste for good design
The French-Algerian opticienne-lunetière and founder of Selima Optique opened her first store in New York City in 1993. Three years later, she launched her own collection of optical and sunglasses when a friend couldn’t find frames to match his eclectic taste. Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was such a fan of the Aldo frame that Salaun named two larger versions of the style—the Carolyn and the CBK—after her. Selima Optique has stores in Paris and New York. The Bond Street location, with its hair salon and vintage-fashion sales, is one of the city’s rare original shopping experiences. Salaun introduced a bespoke service earlier this year. Here, she shares what’s caught her well-trained eye
Penelope Fletcher is a co-owner of the Red Wheelbarrow, the beloved English bookshop in Paris’s Sixth Arrondissement, named for the William Carlos Williams poem. The store’s current location on Rue de Médicis is its fourth iteration, and it’s the fifth bookshop Fletcher has opened. Her first was at age 19 on Hornby Island in Canada’s Salish Sea, where she grew up. She painted a chicken coop red, added a French window, and sold out of 2,000 books the first weekend she opened. It boded well for her future in France. Fletcher likes Christophe Pourny soap for clean bookseller hands, Chianti, and the Ekphrasis Collection from David Zwirner Books.
The first Savile Row tailor for women only is also the great-granddaughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and third cousin of Princes William and Harry. She set up shop on the Row in 2020. (The business was initially called the Deck, but she rebranded it as Knatchbull last year.) An all-female staff helps clients choose from 7,000 fabric options to create the bespoke suiting of their dreams over the course of three fittings. Knatchbull also launched a small collection of ready-to-wear and has expanded sales internationally, taking her custom services on the road with trunk shows in New York, Washington, Dallas, Palm Beach, and other tony American enclaves. Here, Knatchbull shares her personal favorites.
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