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40 BAL HARBOUR Shannon Adducci is a writer, editor, stylist and jewelry expert and consultant based in New York City and Los Angeles. Growing up in a family that owns a 100-year-old auction house, DuMouchelle, in Detroit, Adducci was exposed to rare and important pieces of jewelry, objects and art at a young age. After graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she spent seven years at Departures, most recently as senior style editor, focusing on fine jewelry, watches and accessories. Adducci contributes to Elle, The Editorialist, 1stdibs and is the fashion editor at Billboard magazine. She also consults for fine jewelry brands as well as for her family's estate jewelry auction house. This issue, Adducci edited the Trends pages and served as jewelry market editor for "An Eye for the Exotic." "My grandmother taught me the power of shoes. No matter what the occasion was—even if it was taking her four sons to baseball games—her shoes were always impeccable. And since I am the same exact size that she was, wearing her old Ferragamo and Gucci loafers reminds me of that." Michael Reynolds is a New York-based creative director. Reynolds joined the editorial staff of Vogue in 1990 where he spent six years before joining House & Garden as a senior style editor. In the mid-'90s, Reynolds helped to conceive and launch Wallpaper where he continues as its American editor. He's also a contributing editor to Architectural Digest and Cultured. "My favorite decade in fashion is the 1960s. It was ground breaking, revolutionary, expansive and inclusive. Plus it was the heyday of Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Rudi Gernreich, Vidal Sassoon, Penelope Tree, Bob Fosse—and LSD. It paved the way for the '70s in every conceivable way." Contributors Kate Betts is an award winning magazine editor and the author of The New York Times bestseller, "My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City in the Seine." Her memoir chronicles her years in Paris where she worked as a reporter and the associate Bureau Chief for Women's Wear Daily. In 1999, she became editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar—the youngest ever editor in chief of a national fashion magazine. She has worked for Time magazine and has also written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Travel+Leisure, Glamour, Elle, New York and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. In the story "In Defense of Casual," Betts speaks with Tomas Maier about his new Bal Harbour boutique. "My favorite decade in fashion is the 1990s; it's when I discovered my style and when I grew up in the fashion business with designers like Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, Christian Louboutin and so many others." PHOTO BY NOA GRIFFEL (BETTS) Our contributors sound off on photographers, style advice and their favorite moment in fashion.