“I have been a restless bird,” notes Werz, who was just named Karla Otto’s co-chief executive officer this past winter. It’s a career that has brought him around the world and back many, many times over. A longtime veteran of the fashion industry, Werz has, for the past decade, directed the international expansion of Karla Otto-a leading public relations and branding firm with crème-de-la-crème clients that include Chloé, YSL, Calvin Klein, Marni, and Oscar de la Renta. “Luxury is something you need to live with, something you need to use-every day.” Certainly, he’s one to know. “Precious for me is the worst form of luxury,” Alexander Werz says. I would go to the opera with her and her friends, sit in her box at La Scala.” Signora also provided valuable decorating guidance, bequeathing vintage treasures by the likes of Le Corbusier and Carlo Scarpa and connecting McPherson with antiques dealer and interior designer Raimondo Garau, whom she enlisted to help furnish her home.- Jane Keltner de Valle A Swoon-Worthy Milan Pad McPherson credits her mother-in-law, an academic and aesthete, with opening many doors.
So, when McPherson and her husband began searching for a larger place for themselves and their own son, she handed them the key. As time passed and the kids flew the coop, the apartment proved too big for just la madre.
Its unique U-shape configuration allowed for mother and children to have their own wings, affording the 20-somethings a degree of independence. His mother had purchased it nearly two decades prior as a place to reconnect with her two sons after the passing of their father. The family moved into the historic three-bedroom, distinguished by wood paneling and mosaic floors, several years ago, though it wasn’t new to her husband.