Daniëlle Cathari
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DANIËLLE CATHARI
The Creative Director and designer shares her favorite gallery, book and other essentials
Daniëlle Cathari shapes how women move through the world. Starting her career in sportswear, Cathari launched her own brand alongside Adidas Originals. She then went on to lead creative direction for Kith’s women’s business, redefining one of today’s most influential labels. Trained in tailoring and construction in Amsterdam, Cathari brings a rigorous eye to everything she touches, from product design to visual storytelling. Recently relocated from New York to Los Angeles, she continues to expand her practice across mediums, guided by color and texture. Her work isn’t about trend-chasing, she’s dressing the modern woman in a way that feels effortless and distinctive and shaping style long before anyone notices.
A DESIGNER’S SQUARES OF OBSESSION
Silk scarves are small, yet serious pieces of design. Paris-based creative director Benoit Pierre Emery has spent nearly twenty years collecting them, guided by what he finds visually interesting rather than by brands or logos. His upcoming book, Carré. A Vintage Scarf Collection, catalogs 6,500 pieces from his archive of 10,000, including both anonymous scarves and ones by Dior, Hermès, and Saint Laurent. Arranged by color, pattern, and motif, the scarves are presented as objects of design. In its pages, the book captures everything from Pop Art-inspired prints to geometric minimalism, celebrating texture, composition, and the overlooked artistry woven into silk.
“His collection of VINTAGR silk scarves is a treasure. He has designed for Hermès and now Tiffany & Co, and his book is so fun to flip through.”
“If I could recommend only ONE serum and moisturizer set, it would be this one. It truly does wonders for me.”
THE DUO DEFINING MODERN SKINCARE
Simplifying daily routines is something we can get behind. With U Beauty, Tina Chen Craig and Katie Borghese set out to deliver a brand that does more with less. The duo wanted clean, effective, and streamlined formulas that could replace complicated 12-step routines without compromising results. Cathari’s favorite, The U Beauty Duo, pairs the brand's original power couple: The Resurfacing Compound brightens and smooths while The SUPER Hydrator delivers 48-hour moisture. Together, they leave skin at its best without stealing your precious time.
90S CUTLERY FOR MODERN TABLESCAPES
Even the simplest table has its heroes. And why shouldn’t it be the vehicle that transports your favorite produce from plate to mouth? With Ralph Lauren’s sterling silver cable link spoon and fork, first made in 1997, even a simple meal feels considered. Each piece, forged in sterling silver, carries the brand’s signature attention to detail, a nod to old-world elegance. Part of Ralph Lauren Home, launched in 1983 to solve the problem of uninspired tableware, this now-discontinued style makes even cereal feel ceremonious. Functional, coveted, and unmistakably Ralph.
“This specific Ralph Lauren set is rare and FUNKY. I’ve recently been really into researching and exploring unique, characterful silverware. What if the cutlery became the main piece of the table’s look, rather than seen as something basic?”
“A BRAND new fragrance brand that’s just the coolest. Every scent is sublime.”
A FRAGRANCE BRAND THAT INSPIRES ALL THE SENSES
Scent is deeply intimate, though most brands insist on packaging it like a slogan. Lore takes another path. Co-founded by Melanie Bender, one of the industry’s sharpest minds, the newly launched fragrance brand is for the kind of women often overlooked by the industry’s purists. Lore launched with four fragrances: Sublimity, Somewhere but Nowhere, Disfruta, and Lovely and a Little Twisted. Each one is less about image and more about atmosphere, recalling Hawaiian adolescence or the eccentricities of Americana. The 50ml flacons, shaped by French glassblowing, are priced at $88. Delivering elegance, without it feeling exclusive. In this way, Lore treats perfume as both a design object and an emotional vessel, pointing to what the future of fragrance might yet become.
A GALLERY WHERE ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, AND ART COLLIDE
Axel Vervoordt Gallery has never been in the business of simply showing art. Founded in 2011 by Boris Vervoordt, son of the renowned art dealer and collector Axel Vervoordt, the gallery continues a family legacy of treating art as part of a larger cultural ecosystem. The gallery’s program builds bridges between East and West, material and immaterial, the personal and the universal. Exhibitions often unfold as dialogues between eras and styles, where post-war pioneers from the ZERO and Gutai movements meet Korean Dansaekhwa masters or contemporary artists working today. With its headquarters at Kanaal, a former industrial site transformed into a cultural campus outside Antwerp, the gallery situates art in conversation with architecture, design, and daily life. Axel Vervoordt Gallery distinguishes itself by cultivating continuity and turning art into a way of seeing, and ultimately, a way of living.