Marawa is a professional hula hooper and performance artist. She has collaborated with groups like Kenzo, JackÜ, and Refinery29 and has traveled around the world to perform and teach hula hooping. Marawa currently holds 11 world records.
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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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Meet LA Passersby, Jordan a. Fu. Jordan’s a taxidermist, Virgo, and collector of old treasures.
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Kaylan is the Brand Director of Ilegal Mezcal, a company that got started out of her uncle's Café No Sé in Antigua, Guatemala. She gets to have her hands in design, music, and politics on a daily basis, and was behind the brand's viral "Donald Eres Un Pendejo" campaign. She lives in Williamsburg with her puppy, Penny Lane.
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Deepica is a beauty vlogger and host. After growing up in Sugarland, Texas, she moved to NYC to work on the corporate side of the beauty industry, first at an internship with L'Oreal and later in the marketing department at Birchbox. After appearing in makeup videos for Birchbox, she launched her own YouTube channel and has since appeared in places like the TODAY Show and Dr. Oz.
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Meet LA Passersby, Julia Cosaro. After living in London for 13 years where she was one of the founder members of now sadly disappeared female music and art collective GIRLCORE, She relocated to sunny LA almost a year ago where she works as a freelance photographer and creative researcher for advertising, films and music videos.
Domino is a musician, mother, doula, and a co-founder of Carriage House Birth, a collective of doulas working in New York City and Los Angeles. Her forthcoming album, Beyond Waves, will be released on August 25.
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Meet LA Passersby, Whitney Fierce. After cutting her disc jockey teeth in the basements and on the runways of NYC, Whitney Fierce joined Hercules and Love Affair, and since has joined New Order as their tour DJ.
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Rachel Cabitt is an NYC based photographer and web designer collaborating with other young, like-minded artists. She is a 2016 graduate of the Photography & Imaging Department at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently Digital Director of POND magazine as well as a web developer for Opening Ceremony.
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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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Diane is a fashion designer and the founder of DA/DA, a clothing line for women that borrows from menswear.
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Mo is an expert on retail and the localizing movement. She works as the Director of Business Development for West Elm LOCAL and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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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.
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Mel is a literary agent representing best-selling and award-winning authors including Stephanie Danler, Kristin Dombek, Kate Zambreno, and others. She’s prepping for a renovation of her Clinton Hill Apartment, in a building commissioned by the U.S. Navy to house workers and officers at their nearby Brooklyn Navy Yard during WW2.
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Marjon is a freelance journalist living in Greenpoint. Formerly the Senior Fashion Writer at Vogue.com and the founding Arts and Culture Editor at Saint Heron, her work explores the intersection of style and culture. Marjon’s writing has appeared on The Fader, Jezebel, Elle, Refinery29, and elsewhere.
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Maura Kutner Walters is an award-winning journalist who is currently an editor at New York Magazine's The Cut. Maura has held features editor roles at Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar and was the deputy editor of Bloomberg Pursuits and New York Magazine's special issues.
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.
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