YOU ARE A BABE
TRACEY LOMRANTZ LESTER, GILT GROUP
"I spent almost eight years in magazines before I made the move to Gilt Group—I was both insanely nervous and obnoxiously excited and the first couple of months here have exceeded all of my expectations. I had some knowledge of e-commerce from some of the cool projects I’d worked on at Glamour, but working for a pioneering company like Gilt is a whole different game. It's one thing to have good taste and be able to spot trends, but it's something else entirely to package those trends, present them to our members in a way that feels exciting and actually get them to shop (an enormous endeavor that I never had to worry about when I was an editor). I’m looking at fashion through a whole different lens, and it's such a gratifying experience. I work closely with our buyers to decide which trends we're going to invest in and I help editorialize the shopping experience through video, original imagery, interviews, and style advice. Along with my amazingly talented team I create content for our blog. No day is like the one before it—the pace is just astonishing!
YOU ARE A BABE
BETONY VERNON, SEXUAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
"It took me six years to create The Boudoir Bible. It’s a mission of love and pleasure and meant to be spread around. I am so fortunate to have it sold here in Paris and at the Marc Jacobs stores in New York. The book is a consequence of the bodywork I’ve been doing because I realized that we were still fairly sexually ignorant as a society. It became very evident to me that there were some basic things that people did not know about their bodies and pleasing each other, I just kept getting surprised. I think sometimes we take sex very seriously when in reality we should just be playing.
YOU ARE A BABE
KRISTA KRETZSCHMAR, JEWELRY DESIGNER
"I went to Italy looking for a fashion school but ended up studying jewelry. I had always been fascinated by precious stones when I was a child and it was very close to my family. I worked with this old goldsmith in Florence who was so talented. I learned a lot but that is not the aspect that I like the most, working for other people (laughs). Afterwards I knew that I wanted to do my own brand but needed to wait for the time to be right. When I moved back to Sweden was really when I started to make my own pieces and luckily people wanted to buy them (laughs). That was the beginning of my line. Now I am doing it full time.
I wear the same makeup everyday and don’t really mix it up. I like Chanel eyeliner and apply it to the inner rim of my eyes. I look more awake when I use brighter shades like blues or greens and finish it off with Lancome 
