The latest collection from the New York-based clothing line Another Tomorrow is the first from creative director Elizabeth Giardina, who joined the brand this past spring from Proenza Schouler White Label. For her debut, she looked to an old favorite for inspiration: Eero Saarinen’s Miller House and Garden, which “represents the modernity, simplicity and openness that I value in my clothing design,” she says. Located in Columbus, Ind., the midcentury modern home features a single-story open layout ideal for communal gatherings, as well as details meant to enhance the individual dwellers’ day-to-day lives. “I love the idea of this house being a space that is intensely personal, but is also a really beautiful home for entertaining,” says Giardina. Similarly, the wardrobe she created is for “both private and public moments.” (An organic Supima cotton track pant and matching tunic work just as well for lounging at home as they do under the brand’s blazers for the office.) The cushions that adorn the house’s famous conversation pit provided a palette of saturated reds, creams and pinks, while the garden, designed by Dan Kiley, offered a range of fern, olive and sage greens and lilac-tinted blues for Giardina to draw from. (Saarinen and Kiley also collaborated on the St. Louis Arch, in Giardina’s hometown.) Another aim of the spring collection was to expand Another Tomorrow’s range of textures — Giardina added new materials like hemp linen and even cruelty-free silk. anothertomorrow.co
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In Edinburgh, a Home Goods Shop Showcasing Scottish Crafts
Hugo Macdonald and James Stevens had long toyed with the idea of moving back to Macdonald’s native Scotland and opening a shop that showcased Scottish crafts, specifically those that are often outshouted by tartans and whiskey. But after some pandemic stock-taking, they quickly made the shop a reality. Macdonald, a writer who was raised on the Isle of Skye, and Stevens, an architect by training, packed up their home in Hastings, England, and moved to Edinburgh. Bard opened in November 2022 in a former customs house in Leith, a neighborhood with an active arts scene and a busy port — a fitting base for a purveyor of stylish yet functional home goods. To select the inventory, the couple took a 10-week-long journey around the country to handpick objects and makers. Among their finds were brightly hued flowerpots made from reconstituted ocean plastic by commercial diver Ally Mitchell. At Bard, Mitchell’s pots sit comfortably beside elegant examples of traditional crafts, including woven willow baskets and wooden stools. bard-scotland.com
On March 1, the hotelier Vimbai Masiyiwa and her mother, Tsitsi, will open what they believe is the first Black female-owned luxury lodge in Africa. About an hour’s drive from Victoria Falls, on the Zimbabwe side of the Zambezi River, Batoka Zambezi Sands’s 10 suites (six with plunge pools), restaurant and spa have been designed by the South African interior designer Yvonne O’Brien, who used organic materials such as teak and rattan along with neutral tones to keep the focus on the surrounding landscape. Vimbai, also Batoka Hospitality Group’s executive director, aims to create uniquely African destinations that are connected to their communities. For Zambezi Sands, the group collaborated with the Zimbabwean company Collaborative Crafts, which worked with local artisans to supply the lodge with handmade décor, including grass mats, beaded cushions and woven wall baskets. Vimbai says that they hired 80 percent of staff from the local community, and that $10 from each guest’s booking goes into a fund for staff to start their own projects within their community. From $650 per person, all-inclusive; batokalodges.com.
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Handbags Made of Cactuses, Corn and Grapes
Until recently, not many fashion designers touted their fake leather accessories. But now that sustainability is increasingly a priority in the industry, a number of creators are moving away from animal materials and making a convincing case to go plant-based. The Puerto Rico-born Mónica Santos Gil creates graphic shoulder bags in a material that comes from cactuses in Mexico. The plant’s mature leaves are cut from the root, sun-dried for three days, then ground into powder and mixed with a polymer made from plant-based oils. After working in the automotive industry for 15 years, Vicki von Holzhausen was determined to develop leather alternatives resilient enough for use in car interiors. In 2015, she founded her company, Von Holzhausen, and began manufacturing Technik-Leather, produced with material extracted from corn grown in China and America (the world’s two largest producers). Eventually, von Holzhausen started designing handbags to showcase the vegan materials’ beauty, durability, and versatility; many styles do double duty as shoulder bag and backpack. Long a champion of animal rights, the British designer Stella McCartney is no stranger to innovation. Her S-Wave bags make use of an agricultural byproduct common in Italy: grape waste from wineries, which is blended with vegetable oils and fibers from other agricultural processes. The resulting material is crafted into a baguette silhouette. As the designer puts it, “All the wine you drank in lockdown is now a Stella McCartney handbag!”
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A Freestyle Skiing Pioneer’s Signature Aviators
Learning to ski in Vermont in the ’60s, my brother and I were taught by French and Austrian instructors (thought to have the best technique). We idolized the French three-time Olympic gold medal winner Jean-Claude Killy and the charismatic Californian Spider Sabich, an inspiration for the 1969 film “Downhill Racer” starring Robert Redford. But in the early ’70s, everything changed when the Canadian Wayne Wong pioneered hot dog skiing (later renamed freestyle) with tricks and jumps that recalled ballet and acrobatics. As he told The New York Times in 1973, hot dogging gave skiers “something else to do other than just follow gravity pull.” With a shock of black hair, colorful ski outfits and his signature white aviators, he was a new face for the sport. Vallon, a company started by two Swedish brothers with a passion for vintage sportswear, has made Wong a brand ambassador and reintroduced a replica of his favorite glasses — complete with mirrored lenses and total UV protection — made from high-performance materials.
