Shy Magazine

Month: October 2009

Categories
Art & Design

Design for Living

Charlie Ferrer and Ana Meier on a bench from their debut collection at their Los Angeles workshop.
Charlie Ferrer and Ana Meier on a bench from their debut collection at their Los Angeles workshop.
These days, most entrepreneurial Ivy Leaguers spend their early postcollege years developing Web-based social networks or iPhone applications. Charlie Ferrer (University of Pennsylvania ’06) and Ana Meier (Harvard ’04), however, opted to work on something more tangible.
| by Marshall Heyman |

Their furniture company, Meier/Ferrer, launches in October at New York’s Paul Kohn Design with nine pieces, among them the bleached walnut–and–polished nickel Katherine vanity, designed with input from Meier’s mother, and the lacquered walnut Rosemary console table, commissioned by Ferrer’s.

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Fashion Fashion 4 Women

What’s Your Handbag Alternative?

Photo: Montrose Images |
Photo: Montrose Images |
Sad but true: I haven’t carried a proper handbag since fashion week.
| by Jenny Feldman |

I always make an effort during the shows because I don’t want to be that girl schlepping the huge, bottomless, dirty tote bag spilling out with receipts, random shoes and pacifiers (hello, I’m a mom!). But the truth is, I am that girl and not the girl with the quilted Chanel. Okay, I have a quilted Chanel too—and lots of other nice bags—but they fit only about .2 % of my life. So, usually, I go to work with a ginormo canvas tote; on a bad day, I’ve got two of ’em.

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