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☆ She Wrote the Brooklyn Mom Playbook. Now She’s Starting Fresh.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Chavie Lieber | Photography Eric Chakeen For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Joanna Goddard is starting over. She wants you to know you can too. The lifestyle blogger built a successful brand around her idyllic Brooklyn life with Cup of Jo, the site she launched in 2007. Her posts chronicled falling in love, building a family and navigating everyday challenges. And her readers—most of them women—were on that journey with her.

Persons: Joanna Goddard, Jo, — Locations: Brooklyn

☆ The Wing’s Working-Woman Aesthetic Has Moved to the Suburbs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Chavie Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Laetitia Gorra, the interior designer behind the Wing’s look, is opening a workspace in a suburb of New York. Photo: Gabe OshinIn the 2010s, Laetitia Gorra helped define an aesthetic for working women in cities across the U.S. At the women’s-only co-working space the Wing, the interior designer developed corporate-chic interiors that brought color and texture to office furniture and conference rooms in urban locations. Now she’s aiming to do it again—but this time, for the post-pandemic work-from-homers who are used to carefully curated suburban houses. In December, Gorra is opening a co-working space in Hastings-on-Hudson, a small village in Westchester County, New York, where she lives.

Persons: Laetitia Gorra, Gabe Oshin, Gorra Organizations: U.S Locations: New York, Hastings, Hudson, Westchester County , New York

☆ Davide Renne, New Moschino Creative Director, Is Dead at 46
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Chavie Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Davide Renne was appointed to lead design at Moschino three weeks ago and assumed the position Nov. 1. Photo: Alessio BolzoniDavide Renne , the newly appointed creative director of Italian fashion house Moschino and longtime womenswear designer for Gucci, died on Friday. His death was announced by Moschino parent Aeffe in a statement.

Persons: Davide Renne, Alessio Bolzoni Davide Renne, Gucci

☆ From $800 Sandals to $1,600 Skirts: If She Likes It, They’ll Buy It
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Chavie Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Morgan Stewart McGraw is rich. Rich with an enviable wardrobe, rich with witty one-liners and yes, rich with family money. This wealth has made the 35-year-old famous twice: first as a star of the E! series “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills,” and more recently as a fashion influencer with fine taste. With 1.6 million Instagram followers, many of which track her every pair of sunglasses and sandals, Stewart McGraw has become something of a linchpin in the global sale of luxury goods.

Persons: Morgan Stewart McGraw, Stewart McGraw Locations: Beverly Hills, ”

Matthew Perry was found dead at his home, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty ImagesIn the first five minutes of the pilot episode of “Friends,” Ross is destroyed because his wife has moved out and has turned out to be a lesbian, Rachel has run out on her wedding, and Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing has unpacked a dream: He’s back in high school, he’s in the cafeteria, he’s naked, and he has a phone down…there. “All of a sudden, the phone starts to ring,” he says in the 1994 episode. “And it turns out, it’s my mother, which is very, very weird because…she never calls me.”

Persons: Matthew Perry, Frederick M, Brown, ” Ross, Rachel, Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing, ” Organizations: he’s Locations: Angeles

☆ If It’s Under $5 It’s Free: The Logic of ‘Girl Math’ and ‘Boy Math’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Chavie Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ ‘I Can’t Stop That:’ Biden Addresses Border Wall Construction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Inside the Company Minting the Next Generation of Child StarsPocket.watch, a digital-media company in Culver City, Calif., wants to be ‘the Nickelodeon of the future,’ its CEO says. WSJ’s Chavie Lieber explains how the company identifies and then signs YouTube’s biggest kid creators and then works to create new shows and distribution deals with streaming giants. Zoe Thomas hosts. Photo: Pat Martin for WSJ Magazine