The T&C 50: Meet the Modern Swans of 2018
These influencers, entrepreneurs, and up-and-comers made our annual list of worldly and accomplished young women.
From their roles as art stars, entrepreneurs, wordsmiths, and forces of fashion, these 50 young women all earned a spot on our annual modern swan list.
Sasha Bikoff
One of the hottest interior designers before her 30th birthday, the New Yorker studied art in Paris.
Natural Habitat: Bemelmans Bar or Ditch Plains, her Montauk surf spot.
Bragging Rights: Her riotous staircase in the Kips Bay Decorator Show House went viral on Instagram.
Jessica Walsh
Design’s It girl, she became one of the founding partners of creative studio Sagmeister & Walsh at 25.
Natural Habitat: Holding court at Ladies, Wine & Design, an organization she founded that now has chapters in more than 180 cities.
Bragging Rights: Projects include a Jay Z and Barneys New York collaboration, and New York Times Magazine covers; clients range from Levi’s and Snapchat to MoMA and MoCA.
Chloe Wise
The 27-year-old multidisciplinary artist covers sexuality and material consumption in her absurdist works and popular Instagram.
Natural Habitat: Her East Village studio.
Modern Debut: She first turned heads on the New York art scene with surrealist sculptures of designer handbags made of urethane pancakes and challah.
Tarka Russell
She’s the go-to dealer for young London, New York, and Silicon Valley.
Natural Habitat: Mayfair, where she works as an associate director at the Timothy Taylor Gallery.
Bragging Rights: Has sold works by the likes of Alex Katz and Jean Dubuffet, among others.
Toyin Ojih Odutola
The Nigerian-born, New York–based artist had a banner year thanks to a solo show at the Whitney.
Natural Habitat: A-list parties around the world.
Modern Debut: Her big break came care of the TV series Empire, which prominently featured her work in its second season.
Alex Saks
The producer was behind the 2017 indie hit The Florida Project. Her next release, Wildlife, directed by Paul Dano, has big Oscar buzz.
Olivia Milch
One of Hollywood’s most in-demand scribes, she wrote and directed this year’s Dude and co-wrote and produced Ocean’s 8.
Anna Karlin
After starting her own art and design direction firm in 2011, she has since launched award-winning furniture and fine jewelry lines.
Natural Habitat: Her newly opened store front, gallery, and studio in New York’s Chinatown.
Bragging Rights: As an art director, she has clients including Fendi and Lululemon.
Bria Murphy
The 28-year-old daughter of Eddie and Nicole Murphy is an actress, model, and artist whose latest series of oversize paintings is on view at ArtUs, the gallery she co-founded.
Natural Habitat: Her Los Angeles studio.
Modern Debut: Her work appeared on the big screen in her father’s 2003 comedy Daddy Day Care.
Tyler Haney
The former high school jock raised $57 million from investors like Google Ventures and Gwyneth Paltrow for her fitness apparel brand, Outdoor Voices.
Natural Habitat: OV’s Austin HQ.
Bragging Rights: Advised by former J.Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, now chair of the OV board.
Camilla Marcus
The Wharton grad is behind West-bourne, a Soho café that gives 1 percent of proceeds to the youth nonprofit the Door—and hires workers through it.
Natural Habitat: Eating her way through NYC and L.A. (her hometown).
Bragging Rights: Trained under Tom Colicchio and Danny Meyer.
Paige Bellissimo
The equestrian and dad Mark Bellissimo, a Wellington, FL, developer, created the Great Charity Challenge, a showjumping competition that raises money for local nonprofits.
Natural Habitat: Helping Dad transform Tryon, NC, into Wellington 2.0.
Bragging Rights: The GCC has given more than $10 million in grants.
Chloe Kernaghan & Krissy Jones
The founders of NYC’s Sky Ting Yoga recently opened their third location.
Natural Habitat: Doing asanas around the world, from Santa Monica to the Amalfi Coast.
Bragging Rights: Their private clients include a top secret list of celebrities, models, and designers.
Hailey Gates
The writer-actress hosts Viceland’s States of Undress, a series that probes social and political issues in the fashion industry.
Mallory Hagan
The Democratic House candidate in Alabama’s Third District faces an opponent who has held his seat since she was 14.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The surprise Democratic primary winner from NYC, 28 could become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
Amanda Gorman
America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate is also a junior at Harvard and the founder of One Pen One Page, a youth literacy collective. Oh, and she’s plotting a 2036 presidential run.
Natural Habitats: Speaking at UN summits.
Bragging Rights: One of her poems was on display at New York’s Morgan Library.
Cleo Wade
As fashion’s conscience, the 29-year-old activist and artist uses her social media influence (400,00 followers and counting on Instagram) to advocate for justice reform, gender equality, and gun control.
Natural Habitat: The front row, and the front lines of the resistance.
Bragging Rights: A new book, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life.
Verena Von Pfetten
A former brand consultant, she co-founded Gossamer, a lifestyle publication for millennial marijuana smokers that debuted April 20.
Natural Habitat: Pot-themed panels at the Wing, NYC’s women-only club.
Bragging Rights: The chic Columbia grad is a regular on style blogs.
Sally Rooney
Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was one of last year’s most lauded. Her next effort, Normal People, is due in spring.
Natural Habitat: Dublin.
Bragging Rights: She has been dubbed a “Salinger for the Snapchat generation.”
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