Harper’s Bazaar

Overview

Type: Thought Leadership
Year: 2023

Harper's Bazaar Netherlands is the Dutch edition of the international fashion title, though its pages run wider than fashion alone, covering design, travel, art and culture alongside style. Kelly Wearstler has written for the magazine for two years running. Her contributions have ranged from a 2023 cover feature to a two-part video guide to her own Los Angeles, alongside the recurring column itself. Harper's Bazaar Netherlands speaks to a reader who treats style as identity, not just wardrobe, someone who wants the same eye applied to a home, a trip, or a piece of art that she'd apply to what she wears. Wearstler's world, curated, cross-disciplinary, always led by taste rather than category, is built for exactly that reader.

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Inside the Column

Her opening column made the case for sustainability as a mindset rather than a buzzword, pairing it with five objects that work within real material limits: a robotically crafted lamp made from recycled plastic, a bag made from grape waste, another built from a retired truck tarp. A later entry, timed to the magazine's Fashion Issue, followed her instinct across disciplines entirely, a sculptural shoe informing the line of a chair, an afternoon at the Petersen Automotive Museum reshaping how she thinks about craft and heritage, and how tools like Dall-E and Midjourney have changed the pace at which her studio iterates, without changing whose eye still does the deciding.

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Some months the assignment is practical, a child's room, a design prediction. Other months it's personal, my own house, gone. But every piece asks the same question: what does a home actually hold, and why does it matter so much when it's taken away. That's a question worth answering in public, not just in my own head.

Kelly Wearstler