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The U.K.-based intuitive has spent more than three decades helping clients, who include Matthew Rhys, Antony Gormley, and Jo Wood, tap into their quantum field. After a car accident at age 19, Fraser embraced her clairvoyance, discovering it ran in her bloodline.Her great-great-grandfather, Gerald Balfour, the second Earl of Balfour, founded the College of Psychic Studies in 1884. She travels the U.S. and U.K. restructuring the energy of people, houses, and horses. Fraser recommends beginning 2026—the lunar year of the horse—not with a resolution but a frequency. “It’s a waveform to ride gracefully amongst the herd,” she said. She keeps her energy aligned with Theodora Warre earrings, a Filson duffel, and Vyrao Witchy Woo
In the 90s, Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna had to have Melillo’s famous drawstring Judo pant from his first brand, Nova. In the early 2010s, Julianne Moore and Aerin Lauder pledged allegiance to the T-shirts, crafted in super soft cotton with meticulously fitted arms, Melillo perfected at ATM by Anthony Thomas Melillo. Over the years, the brand has grown into a full range of soft wardrobe essentials for men and women, and recently opened its first store in New York City inspired by his home in Amagansett. Here, Melillo shares his taste for Christophe Pourny flyswatters, C. O. Bigelow handwash, and more
When the coronavirus closed college campuses, Kumra left University of Pennsylvania, where he was an economics student, to return home to New Delhi. He started developing Kartik Research, a brand that fuses his passion for streetwear and local Indian artisanal craft. By the time he went back to school, he was running a business. Since then, Kartik Research has been a semifinalist for the LVMH Prize, it recently staged its first runway show at Paris Fashion Week, and opened a store on New York City’s Lower East Side. Kendrick Lamar, Steph Curry, Brad Pitt, and Lewis Hamilton have worn pieces from the collection, which includes jeans, jackets, and shorts that have been hand-embroidered or block-printed. Here, Kumra shares his taste for Carter Young sneakers and William Eggleston photography.
Before launching Alice functional chocolate mushrooms, Lindsay Goodstein was in pharmaceutical sales by day and DJ-ing by night. Charlotte Cruze was working in advertising while getting a master’s degree in food studies. Their interests in cultivating connection and happiness converged on two things—mushrooms and chocolate. They spent two years developing Alice’s products, a combination of chocolate with mushroom’s nootropics and adaptogens, with homeopathic doctors, formulators, and chocolatiers. Goodstein and Cruze’s holidays are filled with good lighting and vibes. And chocolate
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Setting the backdrop to a beautiful life is the Spanish couple’s family business, dating back generations. In just over a decade, they launched their interior-design studio, Casa Muñoz, and opened Madrid’s first contemporary design gallery and store, Machado-Muñoz. Muñoz, whose family founded Casa & Jardin and Darro, leads the firm’s architectural vision, while Machado, who began his career assisting Mario Testino, is creative director. For them, the holiday spirit is the scent of quince wafting over a table set with silver, and eating Roscón de Reyes from La Duquesita in Madrid with hot chocolate, preferably while wearing Anderson & Sheppard robes
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The artist, filmmaker, and self-titled “conceptual entrepreneur” has exhibited at MoMA, directed the feature-length film The African Desperate, collaborated with Prada, and shot Rihanna for a Louis Vuitton men’s campaign. Syms co-founded Golden Age, a book store, and started Dominica, an artist-book imprint. Her prolific work offers sharp, self-aware commentary on Black identity through humor, theory, and pop-culture and Internet references. Syms grew up in Altadena, California, and is based in Los Angeles. She likes her holidays laced with cyanide and lip balm
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The Buenos Aires–born creative director travels the world year-round producing photo shoots, campaigns, and zines for clients including Loewe, Range Rover, and Interview magazine. When he’s not globetrotting, Fecchino splits his time between New York City and the Connecticut countryside. For him, nothing says “the holidays” like firewood, the smell of barbecue, and a Speedo
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The chef behind Comal, a Mexican-inflected restaurant on N.Y.C.’s Lower East Side, shares his secrets to a successful holiday menu, including warm plates, Mexican chilies, and love
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The former fashion designer channels his artist’s eye into Somerset House, the interiors firm he co-founded with his wife, Haley Loewenthal, in 2020. This week, they open a new, 10,000-square-foot showroom in Long Island City’s Metropolitan Building, originally constructed in 1909 and now being restored as a creative hub. Part vintage gallery, part design studio, part restoration workshop, Somerset House’s new space embodies Eckstein’s eye for contrast: Italian and Danish modern alongside primitive and baroque, all under vaulted skylights and 15-foot ceilings. Here, he shares his style obsessions.
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