Chef, cookbook author, and mother Mina Stone made a name for herself as an artist and art lover's chef—first by cooking gallery dinners for Urs Fischer and others in the New York art scene.
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Maryam Mortaz is a woman who sees herself as “a mother, a daughter, and a person who loves to write and help others.”
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For Laura Saglio, a born and raised Parisian, music was always her first love. The lifelong relationship was kindled from a young age—in middle school, she covered Metallica with her band Redrum—but quickly sprawled over to other kinds of art.
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Good, thoughtful sex education has been central to Dr. Sara C. Flowers’ mission over a decades-long career that fatefully began at age 16.
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German-born publicist Claire Brodka made her way to NYC to work with the iconic art book publisher, TASCHEN.
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At her core, Tina Bhojwani is an optimist. This spirit that her mother handed down has guided her through a storied career working at brands like Donna Karan, Theory, and Dolce & Gabbana.
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Along with her husband BJ, Eileen Winslow has built a life manufacturing specialty props that run the gamut from zombie bodices to pig heads to eyeballs and tongues.
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Karolyn Pho has worked in fashion for a long time and has arrived at a point where she’s currently styling her dream shoots. Along the way, it’s taken experimentation and a willingness to go all-in on her creative projects. We chatted with her about the moment she felt she’d made it and how to actually achieve a work/life balance by forming boundaries. She also gets into what rebuilding her life after experiencing trauma looked like and how much her parents inspire her. Read on and learn.
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Twenty years ago, Berna Bilgin left Istanbul to visit New York City for six months, and it ended up being a permanent move. In the decades that have followed, she’s industriously built a career as a restauranteur by opening up MyMoon, with her brother. Here she speaks about luck, how to blend family and business, and the weirdness of using dating apps in your 40s.
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Growing up in Toronto, Amaal Nuux embraced the poetry of her culture and, from an early age, sought to make music inspired by the struggles those in her birthplace, Mogadishu, underwent. Here, she elaborates on her very ‘90s early inspirations—which range from DMX to S Club 7 to, of course, Destiny’s Child—to elucidate why those artists became influential in molding her sound today. In doing so, she also curates a playlist that is absolutely filled with bops.
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A truly multi-disciplinary artist, Charlotte Lindèn Ercoli Coe got her start at a markedly young age. But, that doesn’t mean she wants to hold on to youth or play into how society fetishizes it: the opposite is true. In this interview, she gets into the films and books that have inspired her throughout her life; what starting her new company, Simulacra Pictures, was like; and how things all fall into place when you want something badly enough.
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Anne Gomez Rubin is a lifelong teacher who—for the first time in her career—is starting a role in school administration. She speaks to us about how exciting it is to watch young people learn and grow, her newfound obsession with perfume, and why her forties are her best decade yet.
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Kerrilynn Pamer invites us to scroll through images of her alongside her husband and pups settling into their new lives in California. The natural beauty behind CAP Beauty also speaks with us about her past in New York, how a Celiac diagnosis kickstarted her career in clean beauty, and what writing means to her.
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If there’s ever been a person who is wholly tapped into the culture, it’s Lynette Nylander. She’s a writer, editor, creative director, and so much more: the current Executive Editorial Director at Dazed simultaneously runs her own creative consultancy, imaginethat, and a publishing house called Onomatopoeia. She spoke with us about how she does it all, and we got a glimpse into how the more personal aspects of her life—like her magnificent collection of furniture—all came together.
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When it comes to tea, naturopathic doctor Maria Geyman is fully immersed. Her line of teas and herbs, Masha Tea, is rooted in years of study and experimentation. A lot of love goes into each hand-assembled bag, and it seems like Maria’s enjoying the ride. Her mission with Masha is to create “a fun, thoughtful, and sensual tea culture worldwide.” And it’s already begun: if you’re in Brooklyn, you can visit her new shop now.
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Shirin is a renowned visual artist who works across photography, video installation, and film. In this conversation, she generously shares how each stage of her life has led her to today: from her upbringing in Iran to her youth in California and her life now in New York. Her dedication to ritual and to her artistic practice has remained consistent through the tumult and triumph of all her days.
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Along with being the founder of Rainbo—a medicinal mushroom based line of supplements and functional foods—Tonya Papanikolov is a Holistic Nutritionist, educator, cook, and yogi who lives in Toronto. Her work in mycotherapy builds from her platform as an educator on holistic health, nutrition, and healing through food as The Well Woman, and years spent foraging mushrooms in the Canadian forests. In this interview, she lets us in on her life, kitchen, and camera roll—proving that plant-based foods can be both extraordinarily pretty and delicious.
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Toronto-based Fran Miller is the founder and force behind her eponymous skincare brand, F. Miller. Her line—which was launched long before going natural was cool—is centered around effortless, oil-based essentials.
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Rebecca is a medical administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital who—like anyone who grew up in New York City—has an intense love for the city she’ll always call home. But she did a stint in California too, and her openness to the world and all we can experience in it shines through in this interview. Come the Fall, she’ll be enrolling in a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, a commendable endeavor by any measure, but her ambition doesn’t stop there. One day, Rebecca hopes to resume writing and maybe even acting—crafts she cultivated at her high school for the arts.
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Claire Rousay is a San Antonio-based musician whose artistry and melodic music are transcendent. She’s a percussionist, but her experimental style lends to a lush sound that is imaginative beyond the limits of what you might dream. Her just-released album, a softer focus, demonstrates this. The project is a collaborative, multi-layered one, with visual artist dani toral creating the album’s floral artwork and meditative visual narrative. We’re ecstatic to enter Claire’s world and to have her share her musical inspirations.
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