Robert Leleux

Lately, I’ve found myself pining for the old WASP elite. Do admit, we used to have a better class of rich people. I mean, you’d never have seen Paul Mellon prancing around a stage in Wisconsin with a block of cheese on his head, as Mr. Musk did. You wouldn’t have caught Nelson Rockefeller wearing a blue suit at a pope’s funeral, as President Trump did. And it’s difficult to imagine Barbara Bush hawking “exclusive,” patriotically themed, gold-plated pendants on her website, as Mrs. Trump does.

In the airy top floor of a small apartment building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Julia Leach, founder of the lifestyle brand Chance, has made her home for the past five years. “I hear the rain on the rooftop, and the space is flooded with light,” she says. “The apartment feels quiet and tucked away, and, yet, it’s in the midst of New York City.

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