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From City to Country: Exploring the Cotswolds with Fashion World Darling and Farm Girl Amanda Brooks
By John Cantrell, Elizabeth Harvey
Once a “New York fashion darling”—with a résumé including the Gagosian Gallery, Tuleh and Barney’s, where she was Fashion Director—Amanda Brooks decided to trade in “City” for “Country” in 2012, leaving behind her busy Manhattan life in favor of a more rustic existence. Intending to stay only for one year, Brooks relocated with her husband—an artist—and their two children to Fairgreen Farm, his family’s estate in the Cotswolds. Seven years of full-time farm life later, Brooks has become a charmi...