Thinking outside the (cake) box
Photographs by Alan Richardson The ubiquitous cupcake wasn’t always the little darling of desserts. Long before the cupcake craze took hold, Karen Tack and…
GIRLS GONE WILD IN PARIS
There’s something about mother-daughter trips that make women smile. Perhaps it’s because for many of us they evoke the rite-of-passage trips we took…
New Kid On The Block Willa Skincare
Photographs by Katie Murphy Photography The sun is something of a frenemy. While we all look forward to the warmth that spring and summer…
Girl power
The shocking truth is that the story of the women’s movement had never been told before, at least not in a definitive documentary. So…
Wag and WAG – all grown up
Photographs by Patricia Espinosa Few magazines (if any) can boast of having their very own mascots, but then again, we’re not like most magazines….
Happy trails in Greenwich
You might not know it, but Greenwich is home to one of the most extensive networks of bridle paths in any metropolitan area. These…
Hitting the barre
Who wouldn’t want to have a ballerina’s body? Cindy Sites, the lithe beauty behind the Go Figure Barre Studios, says you can achieve a…
Inspired Entertaining
Photographs by Sinead Deane. The artful blend of food, décor and atmosphere are what great parties are made of. But it’s personal touches that…
One-of-a-kind wonders
In a neighborhood brimming with jewelry stores in all hues, Sorab & Roshi, Greenwich’s new kid on the block, has created an identity all…
Elie Tahari, a modern classic
Elie Tahari seems to have a sixth sense for what women want to wear. After four decades of dressing women, the designer continues…
A river runs through him
Few pastimes stir the writer’s soul quite the way fly-fishing does. (Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It,” anyone?) Harold McMillan’s desire to understand…
SAYING ‘NO’ TO HOOCHIE MAMAS
The impetus for creating Stella M’Lia occurred when designer Stella McCaffrey’s daughter, Katherine, turned 12 and began receiving two to three invitations a month for bar/bat mitzvahs. “Katherine needed fairly dressy dresses, and the shock of it all was when you went out to the stores you couldn’t find anything that was appropriate or tasteful, because a lot of it was black, bedazzled, short and tight spandex, which made the girls look like ‘hoochie mamas’ before they were even technically teenagers,” McCaffrey says.
A MILKSHAKE FOR THE SOUL
“I like having 9,000 balls in the air,” says entrepreneur Amy Jurkowitz. “I do better that way.” The busy mother of five (three of whom are applying to college this year) isn’t kidding. With two businesses— Milkshake, a website she co-founded about individuals and organizations that give back, and Jurkowitz & Co., a consulting firm – the Greenwich resident clearly thrives on organized chaos.
SEEDING A FUTURE
Stephanie Newby’s trajectory at J.P. Morgan had been by all accounts an impressive one but for her one that lacked purpose. That’s why she started Golden Seeds – an investment firm dedicated to delivering above-market returns by giving capital to women entrepreneurs.
MOMMY TRACK VS. CAREER TRACK
Photographs by David Bravo RECENTLY, YAHOO’S NEW CEO AND PRESIDENT, MARISSA MAYER – who got the nod when she was four months pregnant – caused…
High times on the High Line
As autumn draws us into New York City with its exceptional weather, what could be more enjoyable than a stroll through the park as we take in the crisp air and multicolored landscape while watching the crowds of passers-by? The park I’m thinking of, though, is not Central Park. It’s the High Line, built on a defunct railway set 30 feet above Manhattan, winding 1½ miles through the West Side.
The ABCs of green luxury
Giving back never looked and felt so good at ABC Home, Manhattan’s eco-chic home furnishing emporium, where beauty and commerce are tools for change.
Classic Greenwich style
With some of the most impressive colonial, shingle-style, Tudor and English architecture in the country, Greenwich homes have come to epitomize classic suburban America. And no one captures the essence of Greenwich style better than award- winning interior designer Cindy Rinfret, owner of Rinfret Ltd., a leading design firm in Greenwich.
Driven to share
Owning a luxury car or two in tony Greenwich is not exactly unique. But amassing a collection of more than 50 automobiles, spanning100 years is, well, extraordinary. Especially when you use it to inspire thousands of underprivileged kids to work hard to realize their potential by daring to dream.
GOLDEN GIRL
Olympic champ Donna de Varona champions others Every now and then nature produces a powerhouse athlete who is also a powerhouse human being. In…