Alessandro Squarzi Fortela An Italian American guide.
We caught up with retail experts, lifestyle curators, and West Lake Village residents Jac and Arlington Forbes who were gracious to share their new store/gallery layout as well as some secrets on balancing marriage, and work. I met Arlington and Jac at a tradeshow roughly about 10 years ago. They were poised, classy, and some of the few Black buyers on the tradeshow floor. I quickly found out that they owned a cool shop in the seaside town of Malibu with a gallery concept as part of the store. Over the years we’ve built a special relationship that continues to blossom, and that I am very inspired by. My visits to the shop were nothing short of amazing, and a lesson in the matter of fact attitude of wealth in America.