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SASHA FRERE - JONES Sasha Frere-Jones is a writer and musician from New York. "This assignment was pure pleasure. I've been hearing about OMA for years and then, very much out of the blue, Bal Harbour asked me to do the piece just days after I'd finally Googled Jonathan. I thought it was some kind of data scraping hoax! But it was real. So many people in audio talk a big game and then trot out the same boxes doing the same thing—Jonathan was not, and is not, like that." KRISTEN BATEMAN Kristen Bateman is a New York-based writer and creative consultant. She contributes to Vogue, The New York Times, Town & Country, Dazed and many more, and works with fashion and beauty brands on creative direction, content and more. "I'm really excited about dressing up and wearing pieces that feel intrinsically 'me' this fall. I loved writing about the proliferation of personal style during these times and was so happy to hear that others have been getting in touch with their own sense of style, too." RACHEL LEWINTER Rachel LeWinter was born and raised in Miami, but currently calls New York City home. She served as Fashion Director at Us Weekly, and has a photographic memory for red carpet looks and celebrity style. She's worked in magazines for more than a decade, styling cover shoots, writing editorials and finding the best products you never knew you needed. Covering the fall trends has inspired her to up the ante on her everyday ensembles, as seen in her story "Operation Opulence." "There's never been a better time to have fun getting dressed up. You'd be surprised how a little bling (or a pop of neon) can generate joy." Contributors ISABEL SLONE Isabel Slone is a fashion and lifestyle journalist from Toronto who writes about the intersection of fashion and culture. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Styles section and her byline has appeared in ELLE, the Globe and Mail, Playboy and more. She has written about everything from the "cottagecore" aesthetic to the strawberry dress that took over TikTok. For her first assignment for Bal Harbour, Slone interviewed author Alison Hawthorne Deming about her new book, A Woven World. "As soon as I opened A Woven World, which examines fashion and crafts in an industrialized world, I knew I had to interview the author about this unique and magnificent book." 58 BAL HARBOUR

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