Bal Harbour

Spring/Summer 2022

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Amanda honed her visual taste through art and Farryn found storytelling in performing. "Our parents did a great LQDCVUWDVN[FGƂPKPI each of our lanes so we all had a place and a space to thrive," says Farryn. 186 BAL HARBOUR orange and navy striped polo shirt and delivers rapscallion responses with an elastic arm span. "I was very clearly the jester," she says of their sisterly dynamic, impetuously tossing her blonde waves back and forth, every cell seeming to vibrate with reserves of creative output. Across town, Amanda is at home with her two sons (Henry and Noah) and husband Jon, who is co-founder of the agency Harper+Scott, in a plush navy turtleneck. Her eye for jewelry is apparent in the charms layered on her chest and the large gold watch revealed as her hand delicately cups her chin. Her front row poise is exhibited in the strict part of her cleanly pulled back hair and anti-gravitational posture. Meanwhile, at Miami Beach's Faena hotel, Farryn sits back in a sumptuously-sleeved white mock neck sweater, her chestnut hair cascading down shoulders that broaden with ease while her UKUVGTUVCMGVJGƃQQTVJGPNGCPHQTYCTFYJGP she offers her perspective. In their excitement, they respectfully defer to one another ("This sounds like a Farryn story" and "What Amanda won't say herself is…"). Though it's a public interview, their happy reverence is practiced, if not surprising. Successful families are often the fodder of great dramas, mythologized and stereotyped in many of the same ways as successful women: as catty, back-stabbing and Machiavellian in their scarcity mentality. It's an all-too-rare opportunity to write about three sisters who stand shoulder-to- shoulder at great heights within notoriously competitive industries. Amanda and Farryn were born to entrepreneurs Arthur and Sunny Weiner in North Miami in 1986, with a brother, Chris, who is 10 years their senior. Drawn to Miami by the glamorous energy of the 1980s, #TVJWTEWNVKXCVGFJKUƃGFINKPINWZWT[TGCN estate business, Arthur Weiner Enterprises, while remaining a creative at heart. "My dad is a piano player and poet," says Farryn. Sunny designed clothing for Ellen 6TCE[6QOO[*KNƂIGTCPFOQTG(QWTCPF a half years later, Austyn arrived. Amanda, recounting one of her mom's stories, in which Farryn kicked in the womb while she remained peacefully still, says, "The three of us were ourselves since the beginning." Their father in particular pushed a work ethic that has shaped and nurtured each of their respective lives. "There was no option but to work really hard, be the best, ƂIWTGQWVYJQ[QWYGTGeHTQOCU[QWPI as I can remember," says Austyn. While they were invited to listen in on their dad's business calls, they understood success as an expansive term. "Arts and culture were as important to my parents and their FGƂPKVKQPQHITQYVJCUCP[VJKPIGNUGYCUq Experimentation was celebrated. Interesting was as valuable as right. Amanda honed her visual taste through art and Farryn found storytelling in performing. A natural observer

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