In 2011, Amanda Chantal Bacon started Moon Juice, an LA-based juice bar that quickly evolved into much more — a cult following-turned-national fascination. This wasn’t just Venice health food; Moon Juice’s cold-pressed juices and adaptogenic “moon dusts” (herbal powder blends claiming to support everything from glowing skin to a better sex life) personified a bigger transition toward a more…

Los Angeles-based Erica Chidi Cohen is a doula, health educator and author; she is also the founder of LOOM, a center providing education and community for reproductive empowerment, pregnancy, and parenting for everyone. Erica began her work in San Francisco, volunteering within the prison system working with pregnant inmates. Today her work at LOOM centers around widening the circle of…

Writer Claire Messud creates work that, as she puts it, explores “the distances between people as well as what binds us: the way we use the same words and mean different things.” Messud, who lives outside Boston and teaches creative writing at Harvard, has long been someone we’ve admired and been curious about from afar. Her writing sharply observes the inner narratives of women — protagonists…

  Earlier this season, stylist Laura Ferrara took a solo trip to Oaxaca — amid a year of transition, she left New York without an agenda or any set plans, letting senses lead. As a happy accident, our friend and frequent Apiece Apart collaborator Andrea Gentl happened to be in Oaxaca at the same time, and the two met to document Laura amid her journeys. Captured here is Laura enveloped in the…

  Textile designer and weaver Marta Buda lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with her partner Doug and their seven-year-old daughter Anouk. Marta’s sought after hand-woven bags have found themselves homes across the world, including Japan, Malibu, Byron Bay, and our very own Apiece Apart store.  Marta lives by the philosophy of doing well by the people and the environment, and that quality needn…