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T his is a long letter this month, and in Amy Adams an unusual turn, it's from me. Brooke Hortenstine, whom you normally hear from, has just had baby boy #2, Hayes Hollis Hortenstine. She continues with PaperCity in her inimitable editor-at-large style but presently has her manicured hands full. To lead PaperCity Dallas into the next decade, we are thrilled to announce Amy Adams as executive editor, based in Dallas. Adams was with Neiman Marcus Dallas for 19 years as creative director/store advertising and was responsible for Neiman's lush magazine, The Book. In 2010, her husband, Doug Pond, was transferred to Mozambique, and Adams followed. As of June 11, Ms. Adams roars back into Dallas to join our team. Herewith, a few excerpts from our transatlantic conversations, and why we fell for her: experience, which has included holding hands with a gorilla while trekking in Uganda, cage diving with great white sharks off the coast of Cape Town, developing a great appreciation for South African wines, becoming obsessed with the game of bridge and learning to refer to sweaters as 'jumpers.' My Portuguese language skills, however, still make the locals wince." I'm in the phone Holly Moore the last time you heard that, now that we bump iPhones to exchange numerals. I started thinking about old souls, such as the aforementioned gentleman, whose soul runs centuries prior. Another old soul is a new writer for PaperCity, Billy Fong, who latter happened. I don't always receive a ton of feedback when I do write, but boy-howdy, if I don't write anything, secret far and wide by their new hipster branding campaign). You would be wearing a lavender vintage knew when we embarked on our new-editor search that we wanted to reach beyond the normal, known talent them off, but I am quite certain you can as well), gunmetal-gray blouse, mauve cigarette pants and some Goyard tote filled with all sorts of nonsense and monogrammed, of course. Me, pourquoi? I would be the one with dark-brown English riding boots, APC slim HM: We must have a portrait of you, preferably one by Cecil Beaton or Slim Aarons. Barring that, something from your iPhone. guest at the Vanity Fair Oscar party with lots of candid shots. Set the scene: my head thrown back laughing sisal chandelier I had made in Swaziland, a Manolo Kingsley, a Dolce & Gabbana python trench coat and my grandfather's spurs." Cameron Diaz or a contemplative stare from Tilda Swinton's last suggestion to blow this joint and head And, so it goes. I'd probably become very hungry." On another note, I was wandering through a design fair a few weeks back, and I ran into a dear older Amy Adams, executive editor amy@papercitymag.com JUNE 2012 | STYLE | FASHION | SOCIAL in this ISSUE 4, 6 POP. CULTURE. GOSSIP. Pick of the New: to shop, gaze and graz Holly's letter, left). I saw it in her writing samples and in her e-mails — this girl is talented and funny and oh-soPaperCity. The accolades that flowed in from Neiman found our gal. So, while my friends are off to places such as India, Sweden and Amy's recent home, Africa, we at PaperCity will be working this summer to gear up for the fall issues — not to mention glorious July and August. I'll sneak off a couple times to my ancestral home, California, and I'll camp for a few weeks in a vintage farmhouse outside of Cat Spring. Come fall, I'll write about it — and apparently it will be read … by my friends, anyway. Jim Kastleman, publisher jim@papercitymag.com Epic Proportions So love the chunky marble and rose-gold Holly Moore, editor in chief holly@papercitymag.com 10 18 know) or, more likely, I get too close to deadline, we have excess stories to run, and the pressure my copy director puts on me is just too great and I crack — I tell her to HM: We really must sit and chat soon. BF: Professor Moore, perhaps we can never meet and just have a pen-pal-type relationship. If we were to dog, Dempsey, a relationship that developed as a result of my volunteer efforts at a Mozambican animal shelter." ensure that I would not repeat an outfit more than twice in one month." G eez, can a publisher catch a break? Normally, two things can cause me to skip a publisher's letter, as I did $1,150, at Bulgari. PC Acquire Our June PC Acquire talent is a former Dallasite, Houston-based artist Caroline Sharpless. During her formative years, she studied in the 1970s at the Corcoran School of Art — where man-of-stripes painter Gene Davis was her teacher. Now that her family has grown, this visualist has returned to the art world full-time. She most recently honed her skills at the Glassell School of Art, wining a prestigious Ary Stillman Scholarship in 2011; come fall, she segues from the Glassell to the Style: The Heritage Man 22 20 three quietly potent Sharpless oil on canvases — paintings of hushed interiors that adroitly balance abstraction and representation. Enthralled by modernism, this lady of contemplative domesticity finds her subjects Party: Preview Gala Parties: Evening in Marrakesh; Greer Garson Gala, The Golden Age of Hollywood 25 28 30 including PaperCity, natch). Bridal Style: gown trunk shows Wedding Style: The New Mexico nuptials of Toni Muñoz and Daniel Hunt Tiffany & Co. Bridal Primer: The bride's little blue book Hot Boxes stages without much narrative or other apparent meaning, I attempt to reduce all activity to the act of observation." Imagine Edward Hopper commissioned to paint Philip Johnson's Glass House, and you get close to Sharpless. Investigate the portfolio of 10, priced from $1,450 per painting, exclusively at papercitymag.com/Arts. Inquiries Seth Vaughan, seth@papercitymag.com. These acrylic clutches sparkle like the '50s and '60s showgirls and Hollywood and designer Brett Heyman created the rectangular, crescent- and cubeshaped purses — many flecked with glitter, striped in chevron prints or even glow-in-the-dark — when her hunt for the coveted originals proved fruitless. Just like their mid-century predecessors, each piece is meticulously handcrafted in the United States — making these Technicolor handbags a new om $895, at Stanley Korshak. 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