t’s 3.30pm in the Hamptons and the stark grey sky, bare trees and black-steel-frame windows in Brigitte MacGowan’s Zoom background give us a view into her minimalist home office. It couldn’t be more different from her State of Escape cofounder Desley Maidment’s Apple-screen backdrop: that of a chintzy London hotel room at 8pm, where her family members have crammed in due to an unscheduled Covid-caused pit stop, post-French Alps
