Los Angeles

History remembers sisterhood in pairs: Phylicia and Debbie. Venus and Serena. Women bound by blood, brilliance, and impact. In Los Angeles, another sister act builds a legacy, Heather and Ingrid Hutt. “When Ingrid was born,” she says, “my mother told me this was my gift… and that I needed to take care of it. And she handed me the baby.”

In the annals of haute couture, few experiences rival what Sandi Bass recalls from her own journey. She tells of Hubert de Givenchy surrounding himself with six Black women in his inner circle of muses and of how she, a girl from Nashville, twirled in a Paris salon wearing a gown that fit so perfectly that her being in that place and time felt like destiny.