The Giles & Brother designer unwinds on New York’s Fire Island.
- WHAT I’M PACKING…
- My leather visor and a ‘good’ book.
- DURING THE DAY I WILL…
- Lay on the beach getting as tan and as blonde as
I can while trying not lose to Darren at Yahtzee. - AT NIGHT I WILL…
- We always try to cook great dinners — and then
grab a drink at the always glamorous Cherry’s. - SECRET ONLY A LOCAL WOULD KNOW…
- Not too secret but the Sunken Forest is magic!
- BOOK I’M READING…
- The opuses of both George R.R. Martin and Margaret Atwood
— I’m a strong believer in a ‘high/low’ reading selection even at the beach — I’ll let your readers choose which is which. - GAME I LIKE TO PLAY…
- Yatzee as well as Rummy 500. The former I usually lose and the latter I’m something of a destroyer, if I say so myself.
- TRAVEL TIP…
- Benadryl gel! The mosquitoes are ruthless.
- SUMMER COCKTAIL…
- Coming from a long line of beachy Floridians, we do have a traditional family beach drink called a Castro Convertible (long story): 1/3 Mount Gay or Goslings rum, 2/3 tonic and 3-5 fresh key limes, all mixed in the largest tumbler you’ve got. Best if started early and sipped all day, refilled often.
- GROOMING TIP…
- The best part about the beach for me is having salty hair bleached out by the sun.
- SUMMER PLAYLIST…
- We have amassed quite a pile of old records out there so it’s been a lot of Doris Day and Tammy Wynette so far this summer.
