ON THE COVER
Fashion Model Marissa Boster stuns like a royal Duchess aristocrat in a burlapped tweed blazer... accented with a Liberty of London scarf... as she gracefully adorns the cover of our 2019 Fall Fashion Issue. (Hair by Loretta Domgjoni, Makeup by Florie Dongjoni). Boster, who hails from the Great Lakes facing town of New Baltimore, Michigan, is not only a successful model, but she is also a seasoned Medical Assistant and EEG Technologist. You can see some of the other looks we captured of her for our "London Calling" British style feature starting on page 16.
Photographer:
John Enot
So much to do... so little time! No truer words have ever been spoken. For most of the summer this humble editor has been bouncing around the country like a ping pong ball in search of the most exciting and daring fashion events to bring home to our readers, so I am a little jet-lagged as I sit here writing this. But as they say in Hollywood, the show must go on none the less! The summer really did fly by. I can remember griping to one of my staff members that the warm weather meant I had to start mowing the lawn and pulling weeds yet again, and somehow try to juggle being a domesticated guy with running a magazine and having an unreasonable & hectic editorial schedule. The two really don't mesh together very well, but I sure do appreciate a fine-edged lawn. But alas, in the blink of an eye, the days have started getting shorter and I've found myself having to reach in my coat closet more and more each day for one of my well-seasoned leather overcoats. Fall has definitely returned, and this time it would seem with a vengeance. I am looking out of my office window right now and all I can see is snow. Snow furiously blowing around in the air... and about a foot of that powdery stuff on the ground. All I want to do is close my eyes and escape back to July and my easy chair inside the lobby of the Plymouth Hotel in Miami... the exact spot where I slaved and labored thumbing through the pages of the Miami Swim Week runway show & event calendar as I assembled my week long itinerary. So many Bikinis and runway shows, so little time! (Hmmm... seems to be a reoccurring theme in this piece). Our Fall issue tries to help our readers escape for a bit from the sure-to-come, dastardly weather, by transporting them to the inside of the fashion tents and runways of Miami Swim Week. We had unprecedented access to just about every event and show
during the week and have assembled a nice recap and review of the latest design trends and designer brands to watch for the coming 2020 swimwear season that will come to life in February, just in time for cruise ship season. I want to take the time to send out a special thank you to Model and Swimwear Designer Monica Hansen for her hospitality throughout the week. Her private pool party at the SLS Hotel South Beach was off the charts, and probably the hottest party I attended all week. And her private invite spa day was just what the doctor ordered for a week-long, heavy camera-bag-induced neck and shoulder ache! Finally someone cared about the plights and hazards of being a media member! (Insert lots of heart emojis here). I also want to thank M.J. Day and the entire staff at Sports Illustrated for our front row seat at their highly acclaimed & groundbreaking SI 2020 Runway show. It is nice to see that the swimwear industry is finally starting to recognize that there are other body types than just Supermodel! This month, we also take a look at classic British fashion styles... all of which are perfect to wear for fall. (Well maybe not the miniskirts, but everything else!) Hehe. We also spend some time with accessory designer and musician Tom Seely and explore his luxury line of men's pocket squares. I can't recommend them enough. Men have a much harder time trying to make fashion statements or express themselves through their wardrobe than women do, so it is nice to see a designer trying to right this horrible wrong! (That last sentence was meant to be tongue and cheek... I almost feel like you need to provide constant disclaimers these days about your intent and meaning with a sentence as not to offend, diminish, rile up, or anything else of the sort in today's highly charged PC police culture). Ugh! So many ways to offend... so little time! Stay warm folks. It's a blizzard out there!
Cheers and Ciao!
EDITOR'S LETTER
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John J. Enot