DESIGNERS LU ZHANG AND AARON BEAULIEU SET AN IMPERIAL BEIJING FEAST AT A DESERT RETREAT IN TWENTYNINE PALMS
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Lucky in Love Lu Zhang and Aaron Beaulieu first laid eyes on each other at Bar Stella in Silver Lake, after an introduction by a mutual friend. “I was trying to get to know him, but he kept making jokes to impress me,” recalls Lu, the founder of womenswear labels The Fashion Club and Zhang, which launches this winter. Once Aaron’s nerves
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settled, they bonded over a shared love of contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe. Four days later, she and Aaron, who is a furniture and interior designer (and, as it happens, a descendant of president John Quincy Adams) spent Christmas Day together. “Our families weren’t around, but it all felt very natural,” Lu says.
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Fast-forward three years to a memorable evening, when the L.A.-based pair traveled to Northern California to attend the birthday dinner of Lu’s father, renowned Shanghai artist Peichun Zhang, who, midconversation, suggested the couple get married. It was the cue they needed to make their feelings for the future known;
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