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...fledgling business was born in her Brooklyn loft, and by the time Vogue ran a short piece on her venture, Ripley was already receiving phone calls from designer houses eager to unload their wares. In early 2003, after moving to Atlanta with her Georgia-born husband, Ripley opened Luxe, a 5,000-sq.-ft. store in the Buckhead section's posh Miami Circle design district...
...tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl with three sisters now has three daughters: Allie, 9, Diana, 7, and Catherine, 4. Two weeks ago, they dropped by our Lower Manhattan loft...
After a day in the office, psychologist Dr. Robert M. Childs likes to unwind by making a violin or two. Donning a work apron, he ascends to his third-floor loft, turns on a CD of classical music, and gets busy with some sandpaper...
...Kansas City, Mo., closet. "She had clutches, oranges, pinks, chocolates, huge pearl buttons," she says. While an editor at Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like a nice girl,'" Spade recalls. "'You don't want to get into the business. Settle down.'" Instead, Spade rocketed into the fashion elite...
Those who come to the Matchmaking Institute believe they have the magic; they just need to learn the spells. Over a frozen weekend in late January, half a dozen students gathered at the institute's downtown Manhattan headquarters, a loft dominated by a lipstick red wall, a well-stocked bar and two sleepy Chihuahuas. The students were greeted by the school's co-founders, Lisa Clampitt, 39, a veteran matchmaker in a miniskirt and knee-high suede boots, and Jerome Chasques, 34, an amiable Frenchman with an international singles-events business. Nestling into black leather lounge chairs amid animal-print...