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Paint It Pink: The Webster X Nahmias collaboration kicks off at the Rosewood Miramar Beach

by Sofia Fouroohi-Martin

The Webster store at the Rosewood Miramar Beach launched an exclusive collection with luxury menswear brand Nahmias, marking the second time the two have collaborated. The collaboration also commemorates the threeyear anniversary of The Webster’s opening at the Rosewood Miramar Beach.

The Webster also opened a pop-up shop in one of Rosewood’s two-room bungalows. The first room was composed entirely of Nahmias. The second room featured widely available items from The Webster, such as womenswear from high-end brands like Chanel and Gucci. The luxury retailer is known for its creative curations. According to director of communications at The Webster, Annica Litavis, The Webster separates out a brand “only during special events and installations.” Speaking about the Nahmias pop-up, Litavis stated, “We wanted to give the brand a moment to highlight and celebrate it.”

The Webster has consistently carried pieces from Nahmias since the brand’s launch. Nahmias is currently one of the fastest-growing luxury menswear brands and has been spotted on many high-profile celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Kodak Black, and Charles Leclerc.

The Webster X Nahmias collaboration consists of cotton T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatpants. It also includes a knit crewneck. All of the pieces feature “SUMMERLAND.” The brand’s designer and founder, Doni Nahmias, often draws inspiration from Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Summerland, where he grew up. Fusing comfort with looking stylish, Nahmias’ pieces celebrate his hometown. In January, he unveiled his latest runway collection in Paris, France, titled “California Poetry.”

Most of the items in the collaboration use Webster pink – a shade of bubblegum pink named after The Webster Hotel in Miami. This Art Deco venue was built in 1939. The hotel was designed by Henry Hohauser, who is most known for his Art Deco architecture in South Beach, Miami. Eventually the hotel closed, and in 2009, The Webster’s flagship store was opened in the three-story building, keeping the original name.

Pink, a consistent element in Art Deco design, is also the color of The Webster’s logo. Acclaimed fashion editor and illustrator Michael Roberts designed the store’s iconic flamingo logo. Webster pink is The Webster’s official Pantone color. The store has previously done other collaborations using their Pantone pink, including a pink phone case with Case Scenario and a pink ink fountain pen with Montblanc.

The Rosewood Miramar Beach pop-up also kicked off a larger collaboration between The Webster and the Rosewood. Next, The Webster will be opening a pop-up at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. This will run from September 27 to October 1 and feature a similar curation to the Miramar pop-up – minus the room with exclusively Nahmias pieces.

The Montecito pop-up began at 6 pm on Friday. From 6 until 8, attendees were offered complimentary champagne and water. By 6:30, the bungalow was bustling as people mingled and browsed the clothes. A mannequin stood just outside the entrance, decked head-to-toe in Webster pink clothes from the exclusive collaboration.

Later in the evening, before the event closed, sugar cookies were also available for guests to enjoy. The treats were decorated with icing that read “Rosewood X The Webster” and infused with a hint of lemon. “It wouldn’t be the Rosewood without that special touch,” Litavis noted. Nahmias was present at the event. Among the attendees were Nahmias’ friends and family, including his parents and brother, Eytan. Some of the attendees had driven up from Los Angeles specifically for the pop-up.

I spoke to Ryan Northrop again, who I initially spoke with in June 2022 while covering the Nahmias Spring-Summer 2023 runway show. He discussed the brand’s upcoming plans to expand globally. At the pop-up, Northrop sported a silk shirt featuring a painting of Butterfly Beach –which hit the runway in Nahmias’ SS23 show. Nahmias is partnering with retailers around the world. Soon, items from the brand will be available to purchase at stores in Tel Aviv, Doha, and London.

All of the items from the collaboration with Nahmias are only available for purchase on The Webster’s website or at the Rosewood Miramar store.

In

On near to the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, which also co-sponsored the visit with Old Spanish Days.

The impressive ship was launched in September 2015 after five years of construction by the Maritime Museum of San Diego, where it is permanently docked.

The original was captained by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and was the flagship with two other vessels, La Victoria and San Miguel, exploring the West Coast.

Among the guests at the sunset soirée were Joan Rutkowski, Adam McKaig, Peter Hilf, Chris and Mindy Denson, Peter and Kathryn Martin, Donna Reeves, Larry Gosselin, Erin Graffy, Richard Payatt, and Mike Stoker

Foundation Fiesta Fundraiser

It was the perfect spot to view Las Noches de Ronda in the nearby Sunken Gardens when the Courthouse Legacy Foundation hosted a sold-out Fiesta bash for 150 guests that raised around $50,000 in the historic Mural Room.

The fab fête, co-chaired by Angelique Davis and Rodney Baker, featured classical guitarist Chris Fossek, the Spirit of Fiesta Jack Harwood and Sofia Chicote, folkloric dancers Xochipilli de Santa Barbara, and paella prepared by Benjamin Schuster

Supporters included Ian and Denise Burrows, Bill and Gloria Hallier, Patricia Schrader, Erik Davis, Paula Farrington, John and Bobbie Kinnear, Ed and Marcia Lenvik, Julia Lowell, Miscellany Page 384

A Piece of the Rock

You too can become a neighbor of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle!

A 1.52-acre building plot in upper Montecito, just a tiara’s toss or two from the tony twosome’s estate, has just come on the market for $4,100,000.

It is being sold by the Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group.

Wild Life

The party animals were out in force for one of Fiesta’s most popular parties, Celebration de Los Dignatarios, when a record 1,600 guests converged on Santa

Barbara Zoo to raise more than $100,000 split equally between Old Spanish Days and the charming 30-acre menagerie.

KEYT-TV weather anchor Christa Kurkjian was on hand to do a series of forecasts from the boffo bash, while the Spirits of Fiesta Jack Harwood and Olivia Nelson entertained with their dazzling flamenco.

The hilltop hoopla featured 45 food and drink vendors to sate the appetites and thirsts of the hungry hundreds.

It was all too beastly for words with supporters including fun-loving Franciscan Friar Larry Gosselin, David Edelman, Lynn Kirst, Brenda Blalock, Wilson Quarre, Gini Dreier, George and Laurie Leis, Rebecca Brand, Stephanie Petlow,

Prince of Polo

Prince Harry is winging it to Singapore to take part in his charity Sentebale’s annual charity polo match this week.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, co-founded the charity in 2006 to help vulnerable children in Lesotho, Botswana, and Malawi, including those affected by extreme poverty and the HIV-AIDS epidemic.

The charity’s Instagram account, which boasts nearly 29,000 followers, reveals the travel plans include a brief stop in Tokyo, Japan, to participate in a summit.

King Charles III’s youngest son will head up the Royal Salute Sentebale team with Argentinian polo ace and local Nacho Figueras, also a Sentebale ambassador, who will play for the Singapore Polo Club team.

Over the past 13 years, the annual polo event has raised $15 million to support children and young people in southern Africa.

Then next month, he and wife, Meghan Markle, will be in Dusseldorf, Germany, for the Invictus Games, a Paralympic-style event for servicemen and veterans founded by Harry. It will be their first official public appearance since May.

Moon Glance

The lunar-tics were out in force when bubbly Brenda Blalock hosted a twohour trip aboard the 70-foot cruiser Azure Seas to catch the rare SuperMoon, when the planet is at its nearest point to Earth due to its elliptical orbit, creating an awe-inspiring sight.

Thirty friends turned out for the fun coastal fête launching from Stearns Wharf, which Brenda had won in an auction held at the Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club Rally4Kids gala at the Hilton in April. Among those putting the naughty into nautical were Terry Pillow, Dana Hansen, Howard Cannon and Ashley Blevins, Brian Jacobson and Kate

Williams, Della Cook, Alan Porter, John Bridgewater, and Joan Kent

On the Spot

An interesting read in The New York Times in an article about our Eden by the Beach by Amy Larocca

“If wellness were made manifest by a single dot on an enormous world map, that dot would land neatly on Montecito,” she proclaims.

“It’s where wealthy people who have succeeded in becoming their best selves go in order to maintain the exalted state.”

Larocca adds: “With the Santa Ynez Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, and air that smells faintly of lavender and eucalyptus, Montecito is one of the rare places that looks even better in real life than it does on Instagram.”

The article lists the obligatory boldfaced-named residents, including Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Rob Lowe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Adam Levine, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom , and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Larocca describes the community as “a dizzying combination of old wealth, new wealth, and outrageous physical beauty that has begun to attract an ever-wider range of dreamers.”

But she warns: “...Too much desirability, too many people wanting a piece of the spectacular pie.”

All in the Family

Musette Profant is the new Women’s Board president for Community Arts Music Association (CAMA), succeeding Deborah Bertling after four years, who is now chair of the organization’s board.

Profant continues a proud family tradition as her grandmother Mabel Profant was a founding member of the CAMA Women’s Board and served on the board of directors for more than 50 years, an unbroken record to this day.

For a century, the Profant family has supported the Santa Barbara cultural community, in particular CAMA, Old Spanish Days, and the Music Academy, and were members of the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club and the University Club, among other organizations central to the community.

The family home in Mission Canyon has been the site of numerous music and dance soirées since 1924.

Air She Goes

Gwyneth Paltrow has partnered with Airbnb, offering one of her two guest houses at her $4.9 million “eco mansion” for one night for one lucky fan and a guest as a once-in-a-lifetime trip.

The Oscar winner, who bought the 14,000-sq.-ft. four-bedroom, four-bathroom property in 2016, has shown a visual tour of the impressive, renovated pad, “inviting you to come stay at my Montecito guest house for a night.”

The Goop founder revealed Airbnb had the idea to do it in a bid “to make the world a little less lonely.”

The listing will go live August 15 at 10 am PST on AirBnB’s website.

Paltrow says she might also join the winners for dinner....

Prime Time

penthouse in Santa Monica.

He enrolled at Stanford aged 24 after graduating from Oxford University and working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs.

In 2009, while setting up a new hedge fund, Theleme Partners, which launched a year later with $700 million under management, they settled down to live in our Eden by the Beach. He also joined the board of the Boys & Girls Club, a popular charity for needy children.

Before and AFTRA

As a longtime member of SAGAFTRA, like my fellow TV commentators and correspondents, as well as actors, I am officially on strike and unable to do TV appearances and broadcasts.

However, Maison Mineards Montecito has been busy with interviews on my royal neighbors, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Riven Rock, with People magazine and the London Sun.

Matt Wilkinson , royal editor for Rupert Murdoch’s Sun, stayed at the Montecito Inn to get a feel of our rarefied enclave, and Jason Sheeler, deputy West Coast editor of the celebrity glossy People, did a lengthy phone interview for a new cover story.

Unifying Force

Jennifer Macdonald is CommUnify’s new director of Children’s Services following the retirement of Lorraine Neenan, who served the organization for more than 20 years.

Effective immediately, she will oversee 23 head-start and early head-start campuses, and the 200-plus staff who work at the locations throughout Santa Barbara County.

Macdonald has worked in the field of early childhood education for 30 years, including the past 12 years with headstart programs, and most recently as associate director for children’s services. She also worked as a master teacher at Cal State Fullerton Children’s Center and Toddler Teacher II at UC Irvine Infant Toddler Center.

In addition to holding a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Sonoma State University and an associate degree in liberal studies from Allan Hancock College, Macdonald is currently completing coursework toward her master’s degree in education from Massachusetts Global.

On the Money

It was clearly in the cards when a Ventura resident took home $137,921 after an unforgettable hand on a four-card poker table and triggered a special jackpot at the Chumash Casino Resort.

The lucky recipient, identified as Don W., was playing a poker novel game when he achieved a rare royal flush while betting on a special $1 side wager to qualify for the multi-progressive table games jackpot.

He was seated next to his wife, who was also in the hand and won a $1,000 “envy bonus” for playing a $1 side wager. The couple says the money will be divided between their seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. It won’t be the first time Lady Luck has shone on them. The wife won a $35,000 jackpot 10 years ago!

Sightings

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry with friends at Tre Lune celebrating her 42nd birthday... Actor Steve Martin lunching at the Belmond El Encanto... Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones imbibing at the Rosewood Miramar’s Manor Bar.

Pip! Pip!

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, currently in California on his first family holiday in four years, has a strong Santa Barbara connection, I learn.

Sunak, 43, the U.K.’s leading politician since 2022, met his wife Akshata Murty, by whom he has two daughters, Krishna, 12, and Anoushka, 10, while he studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, and also owns an $8 million