Tag: Jada Loveless

Every September, the fashion glossies balloon into fat tomes chock-full of fantasy fall styles. In the same aspirational spirit, I went hunting for our city’s most radically luxurious goodies.

Christy Plott Redd says she likes to take the fancy out of fashion, but on a recent afternoon in Manhattan—her auburn hair falling in carefully curled waves beneath a mink hat, her eyelashes pressed into thick half-moons over shadowed lids—the fancy was very much on display. She wheeled behind her a suitcase the size of a small car. Inside were dozens of alligator skins, samples she was toting around to sell to big-name fashion designers.