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Welcome to the wildly whimsical world of Anna Sui. Since staging her first runway show in 1991, the CFDA Award-winning New York designer—who was once dubbed “the darling of downtown fashion”—has continued to create visual feasts laced with fantasy and fun, not to mention a generous dose of purple and black. Below, Sui shines a light on her eclectic essentials, from a diamond-dotted zebra bracelet to heart-shaped luggage tags and beyond
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Roman Coppola was just 10 years old when he moved to the Philippines to join his father, Francis Ford Coppola, on the set of Apocalypse Now; nearly 50 years on, the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker is still perhaps most at home behind the camera, whether he’s directing music videos for The Strokes and Paul McCartney, producing his sister Sofia Coppola’s upcoming biopic Priscilla, or writing Asteroid City, Moonrise Kingdom, and The French Dispatch, alongside his frequent collaborator Wes Anderson. Herewith, Coppola shines a light on his seasonal essentials
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A former Hollywood set designer, Robin Standefer is a bona fide expert in transforming any space into a scene-stealing destination. Since co-founding Roman and Williams in 2002, the acclaimed aesthete has left her mark everywhere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Jean-Georges’s Tin Building—not to mention Soho, where her design firm now has its very own furniture store, French restaurant, and art gallery. Here, Standefer shares the pieces she can’t live without
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As a stylist for the likes of Italian Vogue and WSJ Magazine, Clare Richardson has long been known for a sartorial sensibility that champions enduring designs over splashy trends, so it is only fitting that her latest creative endeavor—the resale site Reluxe—similarly supports slow fashion. Here, the exacting British aesthete shares her favorite finds for her wardrobe, medicine cabinet, and beyond
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As the creative director of Grand Cayman’s Palm Heights, Gabriella Khalil has played a part in everything from the hotel’s Instagram-famous striped umbrellas and the Mario Bellini and Marcel Breuer accents found throughout each of the 52 suites to the curation of products on offer in the soon-to-open boutique. Here, Khalil shares her choice discoveries for days both at home and on Caribbean escapes
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When Camille Vergnes isn’t at work in her Vienna Secession-laden Marais apartment, the Toulouse-raised interior designer can be found scouring French auction houses and flea markets for standout accents from the 1920s and vintage sartorial thrills alike. Here, Vergnes shares the pieces—both old and new—that she can’t live without
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Since opening the Michelin-starred restaurant Estela in 2013, the Uruguayan chef Ignacio Mattos—who trained under Francis Mallmann and Alice Waters—has further cemented his status as one of New York’s greatest culinary talents with Rockefeller Center’s Lodi cafe, Corner Bar in Chinatown’s Nine Orchard Hotel, and Soho’s Altro Paradiso, where the downtown set regularly gathers for fennel salads and spritzes at aperitivo hour. Here, Mattos shares his prized must-haves, from the best coffee-maker to the finest chocolate bar and beyond
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Whether she’s styling artist Alex Katz, designing the grand Michelin-starred Al Coro restaurant, or curating exhibitions for Roman and Williams’ Guild Gallery, Akari Endo-Gaut’s singular sensibility can be seen far and wide. Born and raised in Japan, the creative director began her career in Paris at Self Service magazine before moving to New York, where she now splits her time between Soho and East Hampton with her husband, photographer Adrian Gaut, and their eight-year-old son. Below, Endo-Gaut shares her exquisite essentials
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At the age of nine, Jean Pigozzi received his first Leica as a gift from his father. Over the following six decades, the Paris-born Italian art collector and bon vivant has rarely been without a pocket-sized point-and-shoot, which he’s turned to time and again to capture intimate snapshots of everyone from Anjelica Huston and Isabella Rossellini at the Cannes Film Festival to Mick Jagger and Elizabeth Taylor poolside at Villa Dorane, his family home in Cap d’Antibes. Here, Pigozzi shares his choice essentials for the Côte d’Azur and beyond
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