I am pleased to present the newest member of the I Want To Be A Battaglia team — Kristin Sekora, contributing editor! Kristin has a keen eye for style and a wonderful way with words and I very much look forward to her sharing her enthusiasm for the amazing Giovanna Battaglia with all of us on these pages. Please join me in welcoming Kristin to IWTBAB, benvenuto bella!

Kristin Sekora
Contributing Editor

I am so happy to have joined the stellar Kellina de Boer’s team of I Want To Be’s! I adore Giovanna Battaglia — that Punk Princess portrait of her with the golden aurora of safety pins at the Met Gala outdid all the other ladies — Go-Go-Gio!  

I am a fine artist working on a figurative series in oil as homage to my brother Stuart who died at 24. It is based on Walt Whitman’s poem, “Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking.” I am also a California landscape painter and have been covered in the Los Angeles Times. My fashion cred comes from a childhood with a mother from the American South who was a couturier-level dressmaker and trained me to have an eye. I am seeking style icons at the moment: maybe Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger à la Versace and Giuseppe Zanotti — I am learning to add rock into my classic mix.

My father was a sea captain and I was partly raised in a small fishing village on the end of Long Island — Montauk — which has now been christened by Vogue Paris as “le nouveau Saint-Tropez”!

I will write in my blue velvet robe at my computer with my little Siamese tabby Juno at my side. I hope you like my work!

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