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As one half of Dannijo, Danielle Snyder is used to designing as part of a team. Together with her sister, Jodie Morel, she has been concocting celeb-adored colorful jewelry (and now, clothing) since 2008. But when Snyder got married in 2019, she got a new creative partner in the form of her husband. “I had never lived with anyone before, besides my sister,” Snyder says of moving in together in their West Village apartment which was designed by acclaimed AD100 decorator Ken Fulk.
“My sister and I share a brain, and we don’t have to talk through everything,” notes Snyder. “Whereas the difference with a significant other is you’re coming at it from two different places and learning about each other through the process. It’s funny because I’ll sometimes be like, ‘I’m obsessed with this.’ And he’ll be like, ‘Oh, I hate that.’ Or vice versa,” Sndyer says.
I don’t date much and was unfamiliar with the experience of ghosting when it entered popular lexicon in the early aughts. Of course, I also had no way of knowing that the feeling of unexpectedly being forgotten by someone you love is a pain unimaginable until it occurs.
We met in a fiction class at Northwestern. For me, the enchantment was immediate. Z. was sparkling, effervescent; her writing soulful and impressive. She pinned vintage pieces of ivory lace to the bottoms of brightly-colored t-shirts. One of her bedroom walls, in a Victorian she shared with a group of girls she referred to as boring behind their backs, was painted with a hand drawn tree. She had a lovely boyfriend and managed to snag an enviable job despite graduating into a recession. She oozed adventure and expectation, was charismatic and witty, both intellectual and accessible.
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