Zita Cobb, founder of Fogo Island Inn and one of the most singular voices in tourism, on why the real work of hospitality isn't about capturing market share, but about whether what you're building will still matter in a hundred years.

Fleur Huijskens on why the world of wellness has become too rigid, too masculine, too serious, and what happens when women lead from joy, intuition and play instead.

Alexandra Pisani, General Manager of Corinthia Palace, on the gap between what wellness spaces promise women and what they actually deliver, and why depth can't be engineered through aesthetics alone.

Valentina De Santis, owner and CEO of Passalacqua and Grand Hotel Tremezzo, on growing up roaming hotel corridors, what changes when women lead with what she calls la vera accoglienza — and why she's never quite outgrown her inner Eloise.

Who gets to build the future of hospitality? SmartFlyer COO Erina Pindar asks the question in the first of five essays we're publishing in partnership with HERitage — SmartFlyer's collective connecting the women shaping hospitality's most culturally compelling properties.

Photographed by Nikki McClarron, this is a collaboration between Grace Margetson and her grandmother, who turns 96 this month, at her home in Dublin as she tells stories and styles herself in Irish designer Simone Rocha. 

Bonnie Langedijk traces the resurgence of "girlhood" from eighteenth-century origins to hashtagged infinity. Her essay questions whether the pink-hued retreat into childhood is harmless nostalgia or a gilded cage—and what it might mean to insist, unapologetically, on being women instead.

Gloria Steinem reflects on the 25 years since Annie Leibovitz first published Women, offering perspective on progress made and ground still to cover. Her essay explores what has changed in how women are seen, and what work remains in how we see ourselves.

Photographer and stylist Savannah White traveled to the  high desert of Arizona to visit Arcosanti, the half-built city where architecture, ecology, and idealism still converge. 

Designer Kim Mupangilaï recognizes herself in Lina Bo Bardi's work, shaped by dual heritage just as her own practice merges Belgian and Congolese identities. Mupangilaï dives into how Bo Bardi built an architecture of dialogue between Italian modernism and Brazilian culture, proving that belonging to more than one place isn't a contradiction but a gift.

Architect Masako Hayashi taught Rie Azuma that Japanese housing culture could be expressed in a single observation about wind flowing through a space. Azuma reflects on her professor's teachings about sections, eaves, and the fusion of Japanese tradition with modernity that continues to shape her practice today.

Dahlia Hojeij Deleuze and Racha Gutierrez explore how the self-taught Madeleine Castaing reminds us that a space is not an image but a narrative.

Interior designer Brigette Romanek reflects how Gae Aulenti's work has taught her that design isn't about perfection but about connection, that being different is something to celebrate, and that the best spaces express what words cannot.