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Madison Marquette, a leading private full-service real estate provider, investment manager, developer and operator, today announced the appointment of Claudia Marquez as marketing manager at CityPlace Doral. Marquez brings more than 15 years of marketing, event management, brand development, and corporate communications experience to the position. CityPlace Doral is a master-planned, mixed-use development nestled in the heart of Miami-Dade County. It is an attractive leisure destination offering a collection of memorable dining, shopping, wellness and entertainment experiences. In her role, Marquez will lead the marketing staff, and oversee CityPlace Doral’s advertising and communications program, marketing budget, events, media efforts, and more. Most recently, Marquez served as marketing director for Starwood Retail Partners, where she handled marketing for Westland Mall in Hialeah, Florida. Prior to working for Starwood Retail Partners, she was the director of Marketing and Business Development at Simon Property Group. In 2020 and 2018, Marquez received the Partnership Marketing Rockstar Award at the Starwood Retail Partners annual conference. “We are very pleased to welcome Claudia to CityPlace Doral as the marketing manager,” said Madison Marquette EVP/Operations East Patty Nooney. “With 15 years of experience in the marketing arena for shopping centers, she brings a wealth of knowledge, creativity and professionalism to the position, and is an asset to our team.” Marquez is a member of ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers), Hialeah Chamber of Commerce, and South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She is active in giving back to her community, serving on the boards of the Hialeah Community Coalition and Mujer Imagen Foundation. Marquez holds a bachelor’s in international business and marketing from Florida International University in Miami. CityPlace Doral has implemented a number of important policies and procedures to safeguard the health and well-being of its valued guests and employees. The open-air entertainment destination has taken into account the best practices recommended by national experts like the CDC, as well as state and local healthcare officials, to determine the appropriate steps to make CityPlace Doral a place where guests feel comfortable venturing back into public and reconnecting with friends and family.

Dr. April Patterson aka Dr. Patty, is a black cosmetic dentist who owns Dr. Patty's Dental Boutique and Spa in South Florida. Dr. April Patterson is used to standing out. As a rare Black woman-owned business in the dental world, Patterson’s journey forced her to stand out above the rest, creating a business model unlike any other. She created a dental boutique and spa, an experience that customers can look forward to instead of dreading. “Whenever you’re the minority, you can’t help but notice that nobody looks like you,” said Patterson, who earned her Bachelor’s degree from Florida State University, then went to Michigan Dental School to complete her residency and earn her doctorate. While in dental school she studied with over 100 students and there were only two Black females. “In general, we are a minority in the industry,” Patterson says. 4.3 percent of American dentists are Black and Patterson wants to change that. She specifically seeks Black employees, including Black doctors. She’s also actively communicating her identity to the world, in part so she can be a role model to others. Patterson mentors other women in the field, so that they feel okay to talk about being a Black, successful dentist. “In the past, my role as a Black woman was muted because I didn’t know how the response would be,” Patterson admits that she did not hide who she was, but didn’t directly put the message out there either. But now, as the nation collectively watches the momentum of Black Lives Matter and the growth of supporting black businesses, “I’m proud of who I am,” Patterson says. “It feels more comfortable to be out and proud as a successful Black business owner.” Patterson shares that her clientele is becoming more diverse as well. Now that she has positioned herself as a black business owner through social media and marketing, the Black community have sought Patterson’s dental and spa services. “I think they feel empowered through this movement and people want to look and feel their best.” By ML Staff. Image by Dr. April Patterson

As a busy mom of four, Samia Gore found it hard taking good care of herself — eating healthy, getting proper rest, exercising, pampering herself - it just wasn’t happening. Gore searched for plant-based supplements she could use as a system to jumpstart a healthier lifestyle and support her self-care journey. When she couldn’t find what she was looking for in the market, she worked with a team of experts to create Body Complete Rx. Launched in 2017, Body Complete Rx is a wellness and lifestyle brand with a holistic approach to healthy living that offers a complete range of plant-based supplements, products and apparel designed to help customers discover what it feels like to achieve their best self. A mompreneur, author and healthy lifestyle advocate making history as the first African American female CEO to break ground in the male-dominated, nutritional supplement industry, Gore’s self-funded start-up has garnered over 10 million in sales in just three years and seen the support of celebrity clients including LeToya Luckett and Kenya Moore. Looking forward to 2021, Gore is focusing on transforming her successful wellness empire from a weight management-focused business to a brand centered on overall holistic health and wellness. Her company will launch new packaging and branding by January 2021, as well as launch five new product lines that will each prioritize a different wellness goal. This shift has already proven to be a success, with the brand’s coveted products having sold out multiple times in 2020 alone. Delivered directly to the customer’s doorstep, the all-natural supplements by Body Complete Rx will provide a range of benefits based on customers’ specific needs, including weight management, increased energy, skin health, nutrition and boosted strength. Two of the five lines, TRIM and NOURISH, will include existing best-selling products in new packaging while the other three lines, THRIVE, GLOW, and PERFORM, will include brand new products and packaging featuring men’s multivitamins, collagen-boosting powder, Vitamin C serum, and superfood bars. Gore and Body Complete Rx have been featured in Elle, Essence, Bustle, Us Weekly and more, and she was also a featured speaker at last year’s ESSENCE + New Voices Entrepreneur Summit. By ML Staff. Image courtesy of Body Complete Rx.

Kuba Cabana, a vibrant new dining concept where “Old World Cuba Meets Modern Miami” located in the lively CityPlace Doral, is celebrating the holidays in Latin style! The venue is available for private events, holiday office parties and other unforgettable events ― including Christmas Eve (Nochebuena) and New Year’s Eve ― Mondays–Thursdays. In addition, Kuba Cabana is offering bonus dollars with gift card purchases for the holidays. An energetic, culinary experience-based venue serving modern Latin-inspired cuisine, Kuba Cabana features unmistakable Cuban and Caribbean flair. This dining concept stems from the beautiful traditions of Latin and Caribbean music, cuisine and culture. Stunning, vibrant décor ranges from neon signs and tropical foliage to walls donned with Cuban-inspired art from local artists. Gift Cards: Kuba Cabana’s gift cards are a great idea for the holidays. Those who buy a $100 gift card through Dec. 15 will receive $20 in bonus dollars to use Jan. 1–March 31, 2021. Private Events: Guests can choose to hold their memorable events in the full restaurant (able to accommodate up to 220 guests), Cigar Lounge (accommodating up to 12), Private Chef’s Table (accommodating up to 14 guests; accessible through the kitchen), and ReEnvision Art Gallery (accommodating up to 100, also located in CityPlace Doral, with wide open space, lounge and bar areas, and gorgeous views). Kuba Cabana offers a variety of food and beverage packages. Dining options include an Hors D’oeuvres reception (six small bites), A Touch of Kuba customized prix fixe selection (two appetizers, three entrees, and a selected dessert), Kuba Signature cocktail reception hour followed by a prix fixe selection (four appetizers, three entrees, and a selected dessert), Kuba Platinum cocktail reception hour followed by amuse-bouche and prix fixe selection (four appetizers followed by a four-course meal and three dessert selections), and the Chef’s Table five-course dining experience. Guests have the option to enjoy a one-on-one meeting with Kuba Cabana’s Corporate Chef Jorge Mas, who can create a custom menu and wine pairing. Two-hour open bar beverage packages include the Touch package (beer and house wine only), Signature package (beer, house wine, and well liquor only), and Platinum package (beer, selection of wine, and premium liquor only). ReEnvision Art Gallery offers the Art & Sip package (selection of three house cocktails, beer and wine, three-hour open bar with well liquors, and art education), A Taste of Art package (selection of three house cocktails, beer and wine, three-hour open bar with well liquors, art education, and choice of six passed hors d'oeuvres), Art Adventure package (selection of three house cocktails, beer and wine, three-hour open bar with well liquors, art education, choice of four passed hors d'oeuvres, and choice of three premium passed hors d'oeuvres), and Signature Art Dinner package (selection of three house cocktails, beer and wine, three-hour open bar with well liquors, art education, premium passed hors d'oeuvres, choice of three entrees, and dessert selection). A la carte services include additional servers, additional bartenders, security, red carpet, champagne show, photographer, videographer, DJ, and more. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kuba Cabana is following social distancing efforts/CDC guidelines. The restaurant is monitoring for updates from Miami-Dade County and public health officials, and is continuing to respond based on their guidelines. Kuba Cabana will be closed on Christmas Day. For more information on Kuba Cabana’s private parties, call 305.800.5822. By ML Staff. Image courtesy of Kuba Cabana

Faena Art unveiled a monumental site-specific artwork on Miami Beach as part of Miami Art Week 2020. Alexandre Arrechea on Miami Beach inside ‘Dreaming with Lions’. Credit: Oriol Tarridas for Faena Art The monumental site-specific installation entitled ‘Dreaming with Lions’ by Miami-based Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea is located on the beach directly in front of Faena Hotel and is free and open to view until Sunday, 6 December 2020. This new work within the Faena District provides a safe environment for the local community to explore and interact with public art. Miami-based Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea on Miami Beach inside ‘Dreaming with Lions’. Credit: Oriol Tarridas for Faena Art The installation, one of the largest public art works displayed during Miami Art Week 2020, is a symbol of Faena’s commitment to keeping Miami’s progressive art scene alive in an otherwise challenging year. “From the first moment we arrived in Miami Beach, we have supported artists and talent from around the world, bringing their work to the community, and this year should be no exception,” said Alan Faena this week. “We have been confronted with many obstacles this year, and I am proud of this new work from Alexandre since it exemplifies our fighting spirit and that of the city of Miami.” ‘Dreaming with Lions’ is the product of a year-long reflection by Arrechea inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s seminal literary work, The Old Man and the Sea. The monolithic work serves as a living monument to the sheer force of the human spirit. The artwork in itself tries to reconstruct the symbols: hope, faith and strength of the human spirit that in the face of the moral challenges we are confronted with today, still prevail. Constructed as a 62’ diameter rotunda resembling an enormous, forum-style library, Arrechea incorporates folded beach towels, illustrated with phrases “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is,” and “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated,” taken directly from Hemingway’s text. “We are facing one of the biggest challenges ever experienced in our lifetime,” explains Arrechea. “I wanted to reflect on this and inspire, reminding the viewer of humankind’s resilience and strength of spirit in these troubling times.” Alexandre Arrechea on Miami Beach inside ‘Dreaming with Lions’. Credit: Oriol Tarridas for Faena Art Aptly, this new commission embodies our ability to withstand relentless and enormous challenges and persist, even in the face of defeat. Relying on the architectural potential of a forum-style structure to reinforce these ideological messages, the installation is a continuation of Arrechea’s investigation of public spaces and their philosophical legacy as interpretative centers of power, hierarchy and social progress. Since 2004 in Buenos Aires and 2012 in Miami, Faena Art has been consistently dedicated to showcasing artwork inspired by and for those communities. The significance of this year’s commission, particularly in a moment where outdoor public art is critical to inspire audiences while maintaining a safe social distance, honors the continued contributions of Miami’s thriving artistic community, and celebrates the impact art can make in the city. This year’s program for Faena Art at Miami Art Week 2020 is being generously supported by Alfa Romeo and Perrier. By ML Staff. Courtesy of Faena Art

Festive season is here, and the celebrations are starting early at Eau Palm Beach with the resort’s annual Barley and Hops festival. This weekend, December 11-13, foodies and craft-beer connoisseurs alike can sip, nosh and be merry throughout the weekends of celebrations. This year, Eau’s culinary team has teamed up with Barrel of Monks, the Belgium Ale Specialist Brewers of Boca Raton, for a five-course brewmaster’s dinner at Angle to kick-off the celebrations on Friday evening. A collaboration between Eau’s Five-star culinary team and local brewmaster Matt Cox of Copperpoint brewing, the dinner is an exclusive, curated experience of beer and food pairings. Reservations are required and tickets are $95 per person. The weekend’s festivities continue on Saturday at Breeze Ocean Kitchen for the 5th Annual Craft Burgers & Brew Competition ($75 per person), and on Sunday oceanfront brunch with an a la carte menu and liquid brunch bar from 9:30 am-3:30 pm EST. By ML Staff, images courtesy of Eau Palm Beach

Join us on Saturday, December 5th, 2020 for Miami Art Week Exhibitions and unlimited mimosas! This year is dedicated to over 30 Miami Artists and includes three curated exhibits, Everyone Has A Story To Tell!, The Gaze, and The Sagamore Walls. Visitors will also have access to Filmgate Interactive VR Experiences. For additional information and tickets, click here. The Sagamore Hotel is proud to share a portion of all Art Sales to non-profit organizations that support the Miami Arts Community. Image Credit: Masked Bathroom Selfie, Jessica Cohen SAFETY FIRST Your safety is paramount, and The Sagamore is enforcing social distance with additional measures following CDC and city regulations. The following measures will be put in place: • Saturday Art Exhibitions, VR Experiences and mimosas will be held in 2 designated time slots dedicated to maximizing space and minimizing guest contact • The full Sagamore Grounds and Outdoor Garden (over 45,000 sq ft) will be restricted with limited controlled capacity (30%) • Temperature monitoring • CDC-approved sterilization will be conducted between each time slot, and throughout the event • Complimentary, uniquely designed face masks provided to each guest • Hand sanitizer stations throughout the hotel • Social distancing (one-way traffic flow) a live fashion show. Date And Time Sat, December 5, 2020 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST Add to Calendar Location The Sagamore Hotel South Beach 1671 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 TICKETS For additional information and tickets, click here. By ML Staff. Image courtesy of Unsplash

There is a woman who is somewhat forgotten in America and little known in Britain, but, goes a thesis, is the key to where we are in this riven moment in 2020. Phyllis Schlafly was a Catholic anti-feminist firebrand from St. Louis, Missouri, who began her series of barnstorming speeches in the 1970s by thanking her husband for his permission to speak: “I like to say that because it irritates the women’s libbers more than anything.” Schlafly’s style — angry, combative, uncompromising and at times, surprisingly playful — was effective in tying Republicans into a close marriage with the religious right. No prizes for guessing who took notice; the day after she died in 2016, her book, making the case for Donald Trump, was published. Trump, on the presidential campaign trail at the time, paid tribute when speaking at her funeral: “A movement has lost its hero.” Who to play this polarising, mysterious woman? No one could do it better than Cate Blanchett, the star of Mrs. America, the new mini-series about Schlafly and her mighty legacy. For while Blanchett, at 51, is undoubtedly one of the most talented actors of her generation, in none of her 70-odd films does she play the girl next door. She is Katharine Hepburn — and won an Oscar for it in The Aviator — never Audrey. Sure, she plays an elf in The Lord of the Rings films, but it is the regal Galadriel, “the mightiest elf.” Even directors realized that they had to ignore matters of sex and cast her as Bob Dylan to find the necessary quantities of forbidding aloofness. She has joked about playing the U.S. president — “I would play Donald Trump in a heartbeat. The comb over? I’m there.” — but the casting would be terrible; the inscrutable Melania or Barack Obama would be better. And, of course, no other actress has been Oscarnominated twice for playing the same role in two films nearly a decade apart. Queen Elizabeth I is the part of Blanchett’s life; the solitary mask of power, the brittle hauteur of the undemocratic leader. Great writers may have a splinter of ice in their hearts, but there is ice in the eyes of this great actress. In short, for an Australian in the entertainment industry, she is the least Australian and least “luvvie” you could expect to meet. The snag: a life’s work in unknowability makes it hard to get to know her. The director Anthony Minghella once said, “Though I have worked with her, I barely know her. I would be hard pressed to say more than three things about her with any confidence.” Blanchett suffers media appearances like a Special Operations Executive expert at resistance to interrogation (a part she played in Charlotte Gray). She grew up in Melbourne, the middle of three children. Her father, Bob, was a former naval officer from Texas; he died when she was ten, from a heart attack in a cinema. He was a figure of mystique for her. She once said that she fantasized for a while that he had not died. “I somehow thought the CIA had taken him; that one day he would just turn up,” she said, although she later retracted that thought. It has become commonly known that this economics undergraduate got her first taste for acting when appearing in a boxing movie in Cairo, while traveling there. “Nooo,” she groaned when someone asked her about it. “But say that if you want. Print the legend of the boxing movie.” In a press conference to publicize Carol, in which she plays a lesbian, she said she had had “many” past relationships with women, which the world took as a revelation of bisexuality. She later said that this was misconstrued and that none of those relationships were sexual. You can imagine the response when one journalist found out she had a tattoo in an intimate place and asked her if she would identify what it depicted; never has the word “no” carried more froideur. In a series of retreats from the glare of being one of Hollywood’s highest-paid, most garlanded actors, Blanchett spent ten years living in Brighton, then a five-year stint as joint-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company with her husband of 23 years, the Australian playwright Andrew Upton. Shortly after adopting a baby girl in 2015, a dream she has said they had since the birth of their first child, the couple moved back to a house in the East Sussex countryside to bring up the baby and their three older sons. This is well known, but when I start the threeway phone call with Blanchett and Stacey Sher, the executive producer on Mrs. America, my first chatty question is: where is everyone calling from? Sher says, “My home in Los Angeles,” and Blanchett says, “The UK.” I ask roughly where in the UK and she repeats, after a pause that is far longer than the time lag on our international line, “The UK.” This series was finished in lockdown —Blanchett says she was “sitting inside my closet to finish off the sound”— and Blanchett is doing the publicity for it while homeschooling her children, the eldest of whom is 18, among their pigs and chickens. Schlafly was also an early champion of phonics and has inspired Blanchett to do some phonics-based reading with her 5-year-old girl, but as she said on an American news show, “a teacher I ain’t.” For Sher, who worked on the prescient pandemic film Contagion, this period has “felt like my dreams on that set turned into reality.” Mrs. America, though, is a passion project for Blanchett, precisely because of her political antipathy to Schlafly. She had spotted Schlafly, then a frail 92, being brought on at the tail-end of Trump’s campaign events and given standing ovations, then had seen Trump eulogizing his guru at her funeral. She thought, “Who is this woman?” In the early 1970s, the American government was on the brink of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution, explicitly giving men and women equal status, with wide bipartisan support across nearly all states. With her campaigning, Schlafly pretty much derailed it single-handedly. In demeanour and hairdo, she was a figure as queenly as Margaret Thatcher and just as polarizing, although in her antichange politics not similar at all. “It felt like with every passing week [of filming], issues that even two years ago would have been seen as tangential to the concerns of women and men today were profoundly and increasingly relevant,” says Blanchett says. Except, I say, it feels like the culture wars of the 1970s are back; Betty Friedan et al didn’t have to reckon with a “pussy-grabber” in the White House. “I think there have always been pussy-grabbers in the White House,” Blanchett says. “They perhaps weren’t rewarded for that.” Blanchett is drawn to elegant villainesses, literally playing the wicked stepmother in Cinderella. Yet, as Sher says, the way out of polarization is not to demonize, “and a corollary of that is it doesn’t serve us to only canonize people that we agree with.” Blanchett takes on this theme. “We’re so used to our algorithm delivering us the news that makes us feel better or speaks to our points of view.” To “unlock Phyllis and what motivated her” felt like a vital act of understanding. “It’s very easy to say she was a crackpot,” says Blanchett. “But look at the way people are responding differently to the virus. I’m an American citizen, but I don’t live there, so I’m one step removed from it, but there is a profound thread in America of the rights of the individual, rather than who they are as a society. Phyllis was an individualist who prized hierarchy over change.” Blanchett’s mother was unwittingly affected by Schlafly, thousands of miles away in Australia. After the death of her husband, June Blanchett gave up her job as a teacher and became a property developer to support three children through private school. Blanchett has said she developed an “enormously empathetic” connection with the sacrifices and strength of her mother. “Yet,” as Blanchett told the Sydney Morning Herald, her mother “didn’t really identify as a feminist because...Phyllis Schlafly was very adept at suggesting that if you were a feminist you were anti-family.” Blanchett’s mother was nervous about her revisiting this on screen. “I mean,” Blanchett says to me, “we’re living through that backlash right now, another sort of backlash. I was very interested in my mother’s response to my being part of this series, trying to look at the women’s movement and the equal and opposite traditionalist movement. It was trepidation because I feel that there are battle scars.” Yet, she says, “There are battle scars for men, too.” The success of feminism depends almost as much on men’s attitudes as women’s. Those in power have to share.” Interesting point, I say. Would your fathers have supported women’s rights? Sher says that “there was no one who was more proud of my accomplishments” than her late father. Blanchett, after a long pause, says, “I hope so. He died when I was ten, so I can’t give you an answer.” What about your husbands, do they identify as feminists? “100%,” Sher says. I direct the question at Blanchett. There is an even longer pause. “I think we lost her,” Sher says of our crackly phone line, but then Blanchett talks. “Well, yeah, I’m just wondering what you’re seeking.” What will success look like for the next generation in terms of relations between the sexes? Sher says: “I have a 16-year-old daughter and I have an 18-year-old son. I guess maybe not having to answer that question anymore?” Blanchett laughs. “Yeah.” Then continues. She is worried about her little girl growing up and being vulnerable in the world because she is a woman. “I’ve got three boys and a girl and there is something that I do worry profoundly about. When there’s a growing fear about so much economic uncertainty, the people who always get to bear the brunt are women. The increasing domestic violence I find incredibly worrying. I hope my daughter does not worry about walking out at night or what she wears. You know, basic questions. I’m really saddened that I’m even thinking these thoughts in 2020. I’m sure women who were part of the women’s movements in the 1970s would have thought that we would have evolved to the point where we didn’t have to have that growing level of concern.” Then, it’s the end of our short time together and Blanchett gets demob happy, suddenly very friendly and apologetic about the quality of the line. Her last point lingers in my head. Her best roles are about armor and its weight. She is a powerful woman who so often plays powerful women, but still can never be armored enough to protect those she loves. Mrs. America is available on Hulu as a part of “FX on Hulu.” To learn more visit, https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/mrs-america. Words by Helen Rumbelow, Images and gif courtesy of FX

Michelle DiMarco is a South Florida-based entrepreneur and owner of Lilac And Lilies fashion boutique. Fueled by her love of style and travel, DiMarco has led a 15 year career, creating a strong presence in the fashion industry throughout Fort Lauderdale. Michelle DiMarco, born in New Port Richey, Florida and raised by a single mother from Cuba, learned from an early age the importance of her roots, heritage and culture, yet to cultivate an independent spirit to evolve and successfully follow her dreams. While always having a passion for street style, DiMarco attended The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City where she studied Creative Enterprise Ownership. After returning to her home state in Florida, DiMarco launched Lilac And Lilies, a brick-and-mortar fashion boutique in Fort Lauderdale. Lilac And Lilies Boutique is a lifestyle and fashion online store specializing in the latest trends and styles for the contemporary woman. The brand speaks to the trends and styles of today with designer inventory that resembles runway looks at Fashion Week. Lilac And Lilies Boutique is dedicated to sourcing and selling quality up-and-coming brands as well as tried and true favorites spanning the nation. Shoppers will find seasonal collections including the latest fashions from LA and New York, as seen on international celebrities. Owned by fashion expert Michelle DiMarco, Lilac And Lilies Boutique resembles a well-edited closet filled with designer clothes for every season. The boutique began as a brick-and-mortar store in 2009 and for 11 years stood at the forefront of the fashion scene in South Florida. In 2020 owner Michelle DiMarco saw the potential in online growth and the business shifted all efforts online before launching the Lilac And Lilies LOFT. The Lilac And Lilies Loft is the brand’s South Florida warehouse and special event venue. The Loft is open by appointment for styling sessions (both in-person and virtual), personal shopping and special events. The space also serves as a venue for fundraisers, happy hours, girls nights and more. Lilac And Lilies Boutique has a wide range of offerings for customers focusing on lifestyle resort wear such as rompers, dresses, cover-ups and swimwear. The online store also offers denim, blouses dresses and athleisure wear including joggers, leggings and tops. In addition, the online boutique has a wide variety of accessories for customers to choose from including bracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings, and shoes. Aside from clothing and accessories, the online boutique sells beauty products and intimates from quality brands. The high-end and affordable apparel and accessories found at Lilac And Lilies Boutique personify the company’s brand standard, offering fashionable clothes that make women feel empowered, on-trend and comfortable. As the store transitions online, DiMarco’s focus will remain on expanding her business, including the launch of the LOFT, while also taking the time to balance work and family life. In addition to being a successful business woman, DiMarco is heavily involved with several local charities. DiMarco has been able to give back to the community as a devoted volunteer and advocate for philanthropy. She has been nominated as one of the 10 outstanding Women of Broward County by the The Boys and Girls Club. She is an active board member of The Humane Society of Broward County and regularly volunteers for Kids in Distress. DiMarco is also a recipient of The Glammy Award for her community activism benefiting breast cancer research. DiMarco currently lives in Fort Lauderdale with her King Charles Cavalier puppy, Lily. She enjoys living a healthy lifestyle of mind, body and spirit – which makes DiMarco the successful, well- rounded business woman that she is today. By ML Staff. Photos by Lilac And Lilies Boutique

Stone Island opens a store in Miami, thus expanding its presence in the North American market: it is the fourth store after New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. Located in the Miami Design District, the space covers an area of over 3.000 square feet (280 sqm) on two levels, hosting the Stone Island and Shadow Project collections. The interior design follows the concept used for Stone Island flagship stores - created by Marc Buhre,industrial designer from Heidelberg (Germany) and founder of Zeichenweg TM architectural firm. Each element of the system has been created to work together in a highly functional design. The bush-hammered stone flooring is also used on the walls, interspersed with parts in through-colour MDF and metallic mesh on a steel substructure. Furnishings are in black-stained natural oak, hangers are composed of carbon bars and anodized aluminium and shelves are in shades of anthracite. STONE ISLAND MIAMI 123 NE 41st Street # 107/207 Miami Design District Miami FL 33137 With Miami and following the recent opening in Beijing, the Italian brand led by Carlo Rivetti - Creative Director and Chairman- counts now 28 flagship stores, 21 Stores in Mall and 45 Hard Corners in the following locations: AMERICA: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto ITALY: Milan, Milan Junior, Rome, Florence, Venice, Turin, Verona, Forte dei Marmi, Riccione EUROPE: Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Sylt, Paris, Cannes, London, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Stockholm ASIA: Tokyo, Seoul, Daegu, Beijing, Hong Kong More on Stone Island Experimentation, function and use are the matrixes that have always defined Stone Island: since inception in 1982, the Italian brand has become a symbol of research and treatments in fibres and textiles applied to innovative design. The constant, scrutinising and boundless investigation into the transformation and enhancement of fibres and fabrics brings discoveries of new materials and production techniques that have never been used in the clothing industry before. Stone Island’s strength lies in its unique capacity to work on the finished garment, via continuous experimentation with dyes and treatments created in its colour laboratory. A department capable of combining advanced technology, experience and human capacity that has developed more than 60,000 different dye recipes over the years. By ML Staff. Images courtesy of Stone Island

From perfect one-sized gifts like the season’s top seller rib poncho-cape made from high quality sourced merino wool to a heavenly soft silk facemasks that matches Winser London’s pure silk blouses - Winser London’s festive gift options are there to go a long way and please your loved ones, wherever they are. You can either make your choice on the dedicated gift page of the website and ask to wrap the presents up in festive gift boxes adding an extra thoughtful written note, or choose one of the luxurious special deal hampers which can be used to gift each item in the hamper to a different lucky loved one as it comes with extra free wrapping boxes. In 2013, retail expert Kim Winser OBE launched Winser London to offer truly high quality women’s clothes at sensible prices - clothes that women really want to wear. With Yasmin Le Bon as its face and Holly Willoughby, Annie Lennox and Emma Watson as celebrity fans, this modern, luxurious womenswear brand is our secret find. Winser's pieces are cleverly cut to flatter; simple without being too classic; cut from exclusively designed, high-quality fabrics and knitted from beautiful yarns that will last, in carefully chosen colours that stand the test of time and are easy to coordinate. Samples are available for press call ins. For more info visit Winser London By ML Staff. Courtesy of Winser London

Designer Logan Real (@loganreal) of REAL Atelier is set to release his first luxury leather goods collection - “The Art of Craftsmanship” on www.longanreal.com launching on Wednesday, November 25, 2020. This collection marks a new beginning for the designer who is well-known for custom monogrammed designs to elevate brand products under his own name. Ranging from the smallest good, a cardholder, to the largest, a tote bag made from American Tanned leather and hand-sewn stitching, the collection consists of six handcrafted goods for the modern day man. From the very start, this year turned out to be anything but what we expected. We are all in a state of uncertainty waiting for what's next. It challenged us to grow innovative with the resources we’ve been given, time to perfect our craft and more importantly --- remembering why we fell in love with it all in the first place. “The Art Of Craftsmanship,” released six months after it’s intended debut, symbolizes patience and the beginning of a transition --- not just for REAL Atelier, but for us all. The designer pulled his inspiration while studying Business Marketing at the University of Florida, analyzing heritage brands such as Louis Vuitton. The iconic french fashion house fascinated him with their global success using a simple monogrammed design. After building a trademark for painting custom abstract designs on luxury leather goods, the designer decided to learn how to make these goods from scratch. Through trial, error and close attention to detail, the designer created his first handcrafted luxury leather men’s collection. “Authenticity is the courage to be oneself and embarking on a new beginning... We live in a universe that speaks in energy and vibrations and as humans we express that through love. I hope my collection is a testament that anything in life is possible if you truly believe in yourself and give unconditional love.” designer Logan Real states. Each piece symbolizes hope, clarity, diversity and transition with the launch of an exclusive REAL Mosaic Monogram as the design foundation in a color scheme of dark brown and black. The aesthetic evokes a sense of timelessness as well as a departure from the seasonal constraints of fashion. A highlight from the debut collection, the Logan Real Tote Bag ($1,750) painted in the signature REAL Mosaic Monogram design. The tote bag has a Leather Silk interior Lining with an exterior in English Bridle. The tote bag, as well as all the pieces from the Art of Craftsmanship Collection is hand-stitched and hand-painted with the brand name “REAL” in a specific triangle of the pattern for authenticity. Moreover, another luxury good from the collection, the Logan Real Cardholder ($250) dressed in it’s signature Real Mosaic design and personally signed courtesy of the designer. Bred from authentic origins, these goods are meant to spread a universal connection across the globe to all those that share the power in belief. About Logan Real: Logan Real is a designer from Miami, FL. Growing up as an only child, Real had a difficult time figuring out his purpose in life. At the University of Florida, he studied Business Marketing. In 2006, after attending a college career fair with no interest in the paths advertised, he ended up at a local craft store where he picked up abstract painting with an acrylic medium. Influenced by Louis Vuitton, he began painting his signature triangle monogram on T-shirts and canvas sneakers, later becoming a trademark for custom art on luxury goods for the past 14 years. Though Real plans to continue his custom-artwork, he decided to take things to another level. In 2017, Real began developing his own luxury leather goods collection, learning how to make these products from scratch. He watched online tutorials from master leather craftsmen around the world. More notably, he learned techniques from some of the best, including Peter Nitz of Zurich. He related to his attention to detail as Real is most known for himself with his own work. Before the start of the pandemic, for the first time Real attended Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. He was inspired by the collections and left determined to launch REAL Atelier’s first collection, “The Art of Craftsmanship” debuting Wednesday November 25th on the e-commerce website loganreal.com. By ML Staff. Images courtesy of Logan Real.