In this issue of Ranch & Coast, we bring you some of the latest looks from South Coast Plaza, modeled by our cover girl Laura Barry, best known as a top-selling agent at the family-owned Barry Estates. Designs by MaxMara, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and other South Coast Plaza retailers will rock the runway at fall’s premier style event, the Art of Fashion, on Thursday, September 23, at The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe. This annual rite of season, sponsored by The Country Friends, will benefit 18 local charities, a perfect mix of philanthropy, fashion, and fun. Please check out our “Attend” section in this issue for more fashionable fundraisers. This month also marks our annual look at people and places around the Ranch. We profile Rancho Santa Fe residents Jay Flatley and Christopher Reich. Reich writes New York Times best-selling fiction; Flatley’s work used to be the stuff of fiction. Now, thanks to advances in gene technology, it is very real. Flatley’s Illumina recently mapped actress Glenn Close’s genetic makeup, something that may become as common as getting an X-ray. Read about this provocative new world in this issue of Ranch & Coast. ANDREA NAVERSEN
On the cover: Fashionista Laura Barry, in head to toe Oscar de la Renta from South Coast Plaza, is a top-selling agent at the family-owned Barry Estates. Barry invited Ranch & Coast into her beautiful Rancho Santa Fe home for our fall photo shoot featuring designs by MaxMara, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Versace, just a selection of the many dazzling South Coast Plaza retailers participating in the Art of Fashion on Thursday, September 23, at The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe. Sponsored by The Country Friends, the uber-fashionable event will benefit 18 local charities.
Photography by Vincent Knakal, hair and makeup by Paula Mayer, model is Laura Barry, photographed on location at Laura Barry’s Rancho Santa Fe estate
