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38 BAL HARBOUR BAL HARBOUR 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 "The Big Chill," Betts speaks with Suze Yalof Schwartz about her new book. Rebecca Kleinman showed an early interest in cuisine when she asked her parents to take her to the finest restaurant in town on her fourth birthday. The odd request from a preschooler was all the more shocking since neither parent was a foodie, and they lived in rural North Carolina. Decades later, she writes about dining and other topics for publications suc h as Women's Wear Daily, Architectural Digest and DuJour. For this issue, Kleinman checked out the explosion of food halls across the country. Tom Schirmacher is an American photographer born outside of Chicago in 1985 and raised in Connecticut. His obsession with photography started at age fifteen and has been his focus ever since. After receiving his BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology he went on to apprentice with some of the industry's top photographers. At 25, Tom began his own career and has since gone on to develop a unique and personal vision that has defined him as a leading young talent. He currently resides in New York City. Mackenzie Wagoner writes for Vogue, Apartamento, and Architectural Digest among other publications. In this issue she revisited the empowering history of tights and made a plea for statement earrings in every shape, size, and combination. "The Spring 2017 runways featured heart-pumping displays of costume jewelry," saids Wagoner. "This is certainly a moment for more is more." Contributors