Susan Easton has worked at powerhouse creative firms like Milton Glaser, Pentagram, Razorfish and Disney but found that the corporate life wasn’t for her. When we first met, in 2012, she had just succumbed to her travel bug and founded From The Road, a retail outlet that develops items from each off-the-grid journey Easton embarks on. Visiting locations from Nairobi to the Himalayas, she searches …
Brooklyn-based painter Tessa Perutz founded Massif Central—named after the region in south-central France—as a way to merge her artistic pursuits: curatorial work, fashion, artist’s editions and functional art objects. By inviting artists to consider the silk scarf as their canvas and create original works, “MC is a way for me to creatively combine all of this into a seamless, cohesive and beautifully striking artist’s multiple,” …
Silk scarves are tricky. They can be worn at any time of year, but many still avoid them for fear of appearing “matronly” or too formal. With her new brand Manner Market, Audria Brumberg hopes to shatter these scarf stereotypes and make them a go-to accessory for anybody and everybody—no matter the occasion. Using found photographs, textures and her own illustrations, the LA-based art director …
