Last night, Family Style and Banana Republic celebrated the official launch of the magazine's debut issue and website launch with an intimate fête at Eleven Madison Park. Friends and family—including Emily Ratajkowski, Peter Do, Jason Wu, Tyler Mitchell, Quil Lemons, Jessica Diehl, and more—joined Family Style's Founder & Editor-in-Chief Joshua Glass, Food Editor Sophia Roe, Livings Editor Beverly Nguyen, Arts Editor K.O. Nnamdie, Impact Editor Sophia Li, Co-Design Directors Maria and Rafaela Echeverri, Culture Editor Rachel Summer Small, Writer-at-Large Ella Quittner, Editor-at-Large Ann Binlot, and columnist Romilly Newman—along with Banana Republic’s Head of Men's Design Nicole Wiesmann and Vice President Women's Design Bettina Mueller—to toast the brand's debut over a special menu by Chef Daniel Humm. Family Style took over the iconic restaurant's top floor, transforming its apex into a home away from home for the night, replete with new pieces from BR Home, including its minimalistic Pierre daybed and Brooklyn travertine console table for a bespoke cocktail lounge. For the dining room, massive, artisan-crafted acacia wood Essex dining tables handmade in India set the scene for a custom four-course plant-based menu by Humm, the last of which—a dessert tray featuring sesame pretzel with chocolate, passion fruit mochi with vanilla, and chocolate tart with hazelnut—was served family style, of course.
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Daniel Humm, Emily Ratajkowski, Joshua Glass. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Bettina Mueller and Nicole Wiesmann. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Tyler Mitchell, Beverly Nguyen, Kate Berry, and Naomi Elizee. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Peter Do and Matt Jamison. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Nicole Phelps, Jessica Diehl, and. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Sophia Roe. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Jessica Willis. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Jason Wu. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Eny Lee Parker and Chloé Crane-Leroux. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Joshua Glass, Beverly Nguyen, and Athena Calderone. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Simone Bodmer Turner. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Sophia Li, Joshua Glass, Romilly Newman, Andy Baraghani, Sophia Roe. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Steff Yotka. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Romilly Newman and Lisa Lu. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Nicole Phelps and Treena Lombardo. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Emily Ratajkowski. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Bobby Doherty and JiaJia Fei. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Andy Baraghani. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Nicole Wiesmann, Joshua Glass, Bettina Mueller. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Thakoon Panichgul and Tony Irvine. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Romilly Newman and Sophia Roe. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
AkAkari Endo-Gaut, Simone Bodmber Turner, and Kimberly Drew. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.
Kylie Manning, K.O. Nnamdie, and Ann Binlot. Photography by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com.