Fashion
What Starts Conversation at a Brooklyn Girl Dinner?
Inside an intimate gathering with New York’s creative crust to celebrate a colorful shoe.
As the vice-presidential debate buzzed over the airways, a lower-stakes debate unfolded in Brooklyn. Adam Brody: cute, hot or handsome?
On Tuesday night, surrounded by tea candles, Sarah Pierson and Alexa Buckley Roussel, the co-founders of the footwear line Margaux, and Matilda Goad, the England-based housewares designer and founder of the namesake brand, Matilda Goad & Co, hosted an intimate dinner party in a Park Slope brownstone to announce their new collaboration on a colorful ballet flat.
Mr. Brody had come up because the curated crowd of tastemakers — including the fashion writer Leandra Medine Cohen and the bridal stylist Anny Choi — had been discussing the new Netflix series “Nobody Wants This,” starring Kristen Bell and the heartthrob in question.
But it was the new edition of Margaux’s Demi Jane, a flat with the silhouette of a ballet shoe and the cross strap of a Mary Jane, that had brought together a tiny slice of New York’s vanguard of style and design. The lure of homey cuisine by Clare de Boer, the chef-owner at Stissing House in Pine Plains, N.Y., didn’t hurt either.
“As the brand has matured, and we’ve matured, and our taste has matured, we continue to design for ourselves,” Ms. Pierson said.
