Fashion Quarterly

Life in a NEW YORK MINUTE

It’s Sunday evening in New York City and Heathermary Jackson has just detonated a bomb. In a bid to entertain her 11-year-old son William, she’s spent an afternoon running around an abandoned warehouse in hazmat-style suits for a team game called Beat The Bomb. “One is a laser room, another is a hacker room, another is kind of like a giant game of Simon… you then have to kind of get through these corridors and if you don’t beat the bomb, basically, you get completely sprayed by these big blasters of paint,” she relays over the phone from her Brooklyn Brownstone apartment. “So that’s what I did today!”

It may not be a typical day in the fashion director’s Adidas slides (she’d usually be on set styling and directing fashion photoshoots with some of the most interesting people on the planet) but she’s

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