Inside Designer Pads

Photo: ELLE Decor

We rely on designers, stylists, and other fashion personalities to help us look good on the outside, but lately, it seems we’re craving a peek of their design-driven interiors. ELLE.com’s collaboration with The Coveteur, the brainchild of Erin Kleinberg, Stephanie Mark and Jake Rosenberg, offers a behind the scenes look at the inner lives and style of today’s tastemakers, such as Ilaria Urbinati, Khloe Kardashian, Yigal Azrouël, Roopal Patel and Brady Cunningham. The trio specializes in close-ups, operating around the introspective Dries Van Noten quotation: “It’s more interesting to have just a picture of a small detail—then you can dream all the rest around it. Because when you see the whole thing, what is there to imagine?” While they glorify the minuscule, other publications have been documenting the bigger picture, publishing stories on the predictably fabulous spaces of designers like Alexander Wang and Matthew Williamson. Small or large scale, the result is an enlightening exposure of the people we certainly read about, probably wear, but almost definitely don’t know. Here are a few highlights of where our favorite sartorial icons inhabit:

Yigal Azrouël