Taylor Foster has moved through many worlds: first Miami, then New York City, and now the subtle expanse of Upstate New York. She began with pastry, slipped into modeling, and later built a small café called Heaven, a gathering place as much as a business. Today she lives in a cabin, where her attention has turned to holistic skincare. 

The supermodel, actor, film producer and native New Yorker has been a fashion industry darling virtually since birth. Leaving Greenwich Village behind for a full time life in Woodstock, NY, she tells us about challenging mainstream ideas and her Pursuit of Consciousness. 

Let’s start with the basics: Helena Christensen is a globally famous photographer and model, one of the “magnificent seven”—along with Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Elle Macpherson, and Claudia Schiffer—who inspired the term “supermodel” in the 1990s.

No one captures authentic New York grunge quite like Downtown designer Daryl K. For 30 years, she's been dressing rock stars and making regular women feel like one. On a historic day in November 2020, we meet in Hudson, NY to talk about America, women's bodies, and how punk is Upstate NY. 

An ideal day upstate for Francesca DiMattio includes the following: working on the land, sculpting in the studio, and going to Salvation Army. For the 36-year-old artist, whose large-scale paintings and ceramic sculptures conjure up a jumbled universe of patched shapes and textures, thrift stores and their potpourri of knickknacks, oddities, and secret histories have long influenced how she thinks about her own work.

Imagine your dream weekend in the Catskills. Then think what it would look like if you took that weekend and transformed it into a covetable lifestyle brand. This is the foundation of the Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club, a membership-based community of like-minded souls dedicated to getting out in nature and enjoying it to the core.

The sun was at its peak when I pulled in to the eerily quiet town of Bovina and drove up the gravel driveway to Brushland Eating House on Main Street. The town itself, which boasts a mere population of 600, felt like an empty movie set patterned with antiquated charms.

Interviewing a seasoned interviewer is no easy feat, and Kim Taylor Bennett has already gotten a third of my life story out of me before I realize she has somehow gently switched up the spotlight. Her warm and naturally inquisitive presence is a defining characteristic of her long and layered career reporting on and working in the music industry, the footnotes of which are as fascinating and vibrant as she is.