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48 BAL HARBOUR Julie Baumgardner is a freelance arts and culture journalist who can often be found in far-off locals. As a native of Manhattan, she spent 10 years trawling her city's streets, as well as the museums, interiors and creative spaces of over 40 countries. Baumgardner's work has been published in Bloomberg, Cultured, Fodors, New York, The New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. For this issue, the writer profiled fellow local Athena Calderone, the lifestyle guru behind the decor and culinary pursuits on her popular @eyeswoon account. "Athena is great," says Baumgardner. "What a kind, lovely woman. She's like a human hug." Mariela Ortega is a London-trained, Miami-based stylist who was born and raised in Venezuela. Inspiration from each of those dynamic locations always finds its way into every look that she puts together. "For this issue, I had the pleasure of styling two fashion editorials," says Ortega of her work on "A Place in the Sun" and "Art & Soul," both shot by Pablo Costanzo. "Best of all, we got to shoot at the newly-opened Rubell Museum, checking off my biggest goal of 2020 at the very beginning of the year." Cait Munro is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is currently serving as Refinery29's senior lifestyle editor and has previously covered fashion, art and culture for publications including Artnet News, Dazed, New York, Bullett and Cultured. "As a seven-year veteran of New York City, I enjoyed interviewing illustrator Jenny Kroik, whose portraits of stylish women in iconic NYC landmarks (The Strand! The Met! The subway!) remind me why I love living here," she says. Contributors PHOTO BY NICKI HOUGHTON (MUNRO); PABLO COSTANZO (ORTEGA)

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