Entrepreneur
The founder of the Brooklyn-based perfume company, D.S. & Durga, along with her husband David. After a career in architecture, Kavi shares her transition into starting a business and raising her two children in the city.
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Meet NYC passerby, Adette Contreras, a web and graphic designer who has become an entrepreneur, founding two companies. Her interest don’t just lie in business and creativity, but including her love for languages, throwing clay, and working on ceramics. There is much to learn about business, finance, and gratitude from this entrepreneur.
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Meet the businesswoman behind Jill Lindsey, the concept store, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, as she shares her journey as an entrepreneur and the perils of owning a small business.
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Parisian designer, Amelie Pichard, shares a conversation with us on what kind of woman she designs for and how her customer influenced the way she created her first shop in Paris.
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Meet NYC passerby, Katie Garcia , a co-founder & Manager of Bayonet Records/A&R for Secretly Label Group.
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Charlotte is the founder and Creative Director of Selency, the first inspiration-based marketplace for unique furniture and home decor. Originally from Bordeaux, she moved to Paris seven years ago to work for L’Oreal, and then boutique a packaging design agency, Little Agency. After founding Selency three years ago, Charlotte and her partner, Maxime, now manage a team of 30, and she loves every minute of it.
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For our latest Meet The Makers, we visited Milk Makeup Co-Founder and Creative Director Georgie Greville for a look behind the makings of a cult beauty brand.
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Jill is the co-founder of online design magazine Sight Unseen. A former editor of I.D. Magazine, Jill is also a freelance writer, curator, and design consultant, and her work has appeared in PIN-UP, New York, T Magazine, W, and more. She lives on the Lower East Side with her husband and their two children.
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At ANTHOM, Ashley Turchin refocuses how we think of retail, making it more about the experience you have than what you buy. We visited the Ashley at her store in SoHo, where she talked about how she's curated a selection of unique pieces that her customers can cherish and feel their most confident selves in.
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Sybil is the founder of People of 2morrow, an online lifestyle and concept shop offering a carefully curated selection of goods from local artists, as well as artists she sources during her travels internationally. She is also a stylist, interior designer, and mom.
Read MoreLauren Moetell is the owner of Mirth Vintage—a vintage shop in Greenpoint recommended by passersby like Jenna Saraco, Nicole Steriovski, Sara Radin and Andrea Toscano. Passerbuys visited Lauren at her Manhattan Avenue store, where she told us a little bit about the work that goes into running a popular vintage business.
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Lisa oversees design and product development at MONOGRAM, the graphic tee company she co-founded with her husband, Jeff. She has been recognized through numerous industry accolades for her design, and was previously the co-founder of Vena Cava. Lisa is a mother of two boys and lives in Clinton Hill.
Read MoreWhen Lyndsey Butler founded VEDA in 2008, she didn't just want to make another leather jacket; she wanted to make the best leather jacket. We visited Lyndsey and the rest of the VEDA team in their light-filled Canal Street studio to learn more about what it's like to run a growing brand in the fashion industry.
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Meet NYC passerby, Zahra bennani. After 11 years in Paris, she recently moved to Rabat to launch JNOUN - a creative studio and clothing line in collaboration with her sister Meriem Bennani.
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Meet LA Passersby, Glynn Connolly. She runs the accessories brand Essex LA, but when she’s not working, she is usually running, cooking, or road-tripping around California.
Jeni is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of frilly, an e-commerce site that specializes in customizable fashion. Born and raised in Boston, she now lives in n Downtown LA with her dog, Toby, in a loft where she loves to host dinner parties for her friends.
Read MoreThe sculptural design of a Laura Lombardi piece is instantly recognizable dangling from the earlobes or hung around the neck of many a Passerby. The designer's eponymous line has attracted the attention of an ever-growing number of fans, including us.
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Sabrina Diaz grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. She describes her high school as “your quintessential and stereotypical school,” closely resembling Mean Girls. There was even a rumor going around that the movie was based off her school. By her junior year, tired of of that scene, Sabrina took any opportunity she could to get out of her school and her hometown, often ending up in the city. She knew that New York was where she wanted to be for college, and started at LIM before moving to FIT, where she studied marketing and business.
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A web designer and digital entrepreneur at heart, Puno is the Founder of ilovecreatives, a platform connecting creatives working that slashie life and PeopleMap.co, an Instagram tool where you can strategically build an organic community.
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“Angie Myung is the Creative Director at Poketo and oversees all curation of the site and store. It all started as a side project with her husband, but after a life-changing release party, all of their products completely sold out. Their business has grown into what is now two brick and mortar shops in popular spots in Los Angeles, including collaborations with artists and musicians.”
Dress, Ace and Jig
Get up. Make coffee. Drink Coffee. Check email. Jump in the shower. Get dressed. Eat breakfast. Put some stuff on face. Walk the dogs, and out the door.
Poketo began with one single product, the artist wallets back in 2003. We had an art show and as part of the show, we made something that everyone could afford, but with art on it. It was our friend's artwork made into a form of a wallet. The wallets completely sold out the night of the art show. We had so much fun that we kept making products with more artists, including apparel, housewares, and stationery.
In our early days, we worked with bands like Postal Service, The Shins, Weezer, and Arcade Fire. We got together some artists, and we designed the wallets that were sold at the bands' concerts. It was so much fun, and the musicians were totally stoked on the wallets too.
“Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is a book that I picked up at the Copenhagen airport. It’s very emotional and heartbreaking. It’s about an older couple who started on a journey to look for their son. They come from a village where memories fade away so quickly that they don’t even remember what happened to their son and where they are. It’s about memory, loss of memory, and what’s real or made up. It’s an interesting read.”
on her style and aesthetic
I hardly ever go shopping. When I need something to wear, I get it from my own shop, Poketo. I think and breathe design and color for living. Poketo's aesthetic is all about colors that are bright and happy. My aesthetic in my personal life is really minimal. Our house is white with pops of color. I wear a lot of white and black, or the combination of two colors. I also don't own much. When you're surrounded by design all day long, the last thing you want to do is surround yourself with more colors and products when you come home.
Dress, Ace and Jig
My beauty routine is pretty simple. I use what my mom buys for me, which is mostly Korean products. Since I'm Korean, I feel like it matches my skin better. In the morning, I just wash my face once. At night, I wash my face using two different products. First, with oil cleanser that takes off all my make up, and then with regular face wash. At morning and night, I use toner, lotion, and serum with sunblock, and I use Sulwhasoo Perfecting Cushion Brightening Foundation. It's like a sunblock and light foundation, but it's really light and I don't feel like I'm wearing makeup. I recommend IOPE Plant Stem Cell Skin Perfection Softener and Emulsion and IOPE Nutritious Anti-wrinkle Serum. Then I put on Laneige Eyeliner and Laneige Volume Setting Mascara.
I'm pretty lazy. I don't get my nails done and my hair is usually in a pony tail. I guess the one thing I do religiously is putting on sunblock even on a rainy day. The sun in Southern California is really strong. You need to wear sunblock even when it's cloudy.
Dress, Ace and Jig
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, Winkreative Design Stories: A Global View on Branding, Design and Publishing by Camilla Belton, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
When Harry Met Sally, Sweet Bean, Chungking Express, Eat Drink Man Woman
angie's favorite places
Civil Coffee is a new coffee shop and they serve really good coffee with some brunch options
Huarache Azteca in Highland Park is the best Mexican restaurant in this area
For shopping, Poketo Flagship in the Arts District, of course
Dress, ace and jig ; Shoes, Birkenstocks
─ Photography By Claire Donoghue
