Johanna Engvall has spent a lifetime paying attention to people, culture and the stories we tell about how we live. Adopted as a baby and raised on three continents, she learned early that there is rarely one way of seeing the world. That perspective now informs her work as a writer and creative consultant in fashion, beauty, food and wellness, where a fascination with human behavior -the tensions, contradictions and impulses that shape us - runs throughout.

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Johanna is interested in what sits beneath the surface: the ideas and intentions behind the things we make and choose. Through Food For Thought, the retreat platform she founded, she brings culinary practice into conversation with art, ecology, movement and storytelling. More recently, that curiosity has led her toward what she calls “heart-and-hands” practices: writing more, making art and cooking good food.

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Her taste follows much the same instinct. She notices the world around an object as much as the object itself, the founder using her platform to engage with ideas beyond product, a coat whose best review is strangers stopping her on the street, jewelry experienced as art. Guided by kindness, curiosity and a willingness to question rather than judge, Johanna’s edit is ultimately about what captures her attention and what proves worthy of keeping it.