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LEAH FORESTER JOHNSON

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So proud of our @jettj___ who worked hard to make his vision of a streetwear company come true and today was offered admission to @istitutomarangoni_miami 🙌🏽 I love you endlessly and I’m so excited for this next chapter in your life! Bravo!!!! 👏🏽❤️ by @theleahforester

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It’s that moment between summer and fall when NYC is alive with new people, places, and things to do. This @bvlgari installation on the High Line is ⚡️⚡️⚡️ by @theleahforester

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They’re 18 today ❤️ Too much love, my heart is bursting. But also … where did the time go? So many memories, so much more to go. It’s just the beginning, my loves ❤️ by @theleahforester

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Paris 🖤 Thank you @ilaria_lepore for making one of my favorite outfits of all time. Sometimes we step into a character, a feeling, we didn’t know was waiting for us. Or maybe it is a remembrance. Feminine armor is the vibe here. At one moment my whole life is blooming from many seeds planted, on the other hand I’m stepping into a gentle warrior role for something so dear to me. Thank you @artemdc for capturing a moment on the precipice 🖤🙏🏼🖤 and thank you @lesliethibaud for making my (rare) slick hair dreams come true 🙌🏽 by @theleahforester

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We’re in our Miami Era 🌴 ❤️🌴 by @theleahforester

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5 months ago

A curated sequence of presentations on the future of Miami and migration.

Miami Design Residences by Fouquet’s. The Rider Residences Miami. The ReefLine. Four Seasons Ocean Club Residences.

Four points of view. One afternoon. Each making the case for a different future, each making it well.

The evening closed at Four Seasons Ocean Club Residences. Cocktails, conversation, the right rooms with the right people. The way Miami nights are meant to end.

LOCATION: @rubellmuseum

KEYNOTE: @pamelaliebman

SPONSOR: @wsjrealestate

AFTER PARTY: @fsoceanclubresidences | @avaline

PRESENTATIONS: @theriderresidences @shaunasellshomes @fsoceanclubresidences @gavman242 @thecoreymcbride @miamidesignresidences @fouquets @carole.tremoulet @thereefline @theleahforester @brandiredd

Photography: @dianaaaaphoto taken in Rubell Museum by @theleahforester

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I ❤️ Minobusan 🙏🏼 This little village in the lush foothills of Mt Minobu is filled with peace and kindness. My first days were spent at the charming @kakurinbo_temple which is a 600 year old temple-inn. Every person, meal and activity was perfect. My room was a simple tatami cabin with futon and an outdoor wooden bath that was sublime. I was able to experience chanting with their priest, sutra copying in their temple, a tour of the town, and their extraordinary food. In the little gift shop are gorgeous ceramics, kimonos, and their house made temple beer. Thank you to everyone there who made my days so special. I will treasure these memories 🙏🏼👘🍱📿🌸🇯🇵❤️ taken in Kakurinbo - 覚林坊 by @theleahforester

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One of the most extraordinary mornings of my life. 25 years ago, I was introduced to Nichirin Buddhism. It changed my life on so many levels. Although at times I have wandered from the practice, I always return to it. Ive held this dream for decades to come and experience the origins of this ancient practice here in Mt Minobu, Japan. So I made the time, flew across the world alone, and woke up to walk a steep path at 4:30 in the morning in the dark by myself in the middle of a country where I can’t read any signs and had to just trust that I would find the temple. And I did. I was the first person there under the moonlight when the monks began to emerge. We gathered in a spectacular prayer hall and I experienced this chant that I have practiced for many years in a way that brought tears to my eyes. I felt I was catapulted into a lineage that I’ve always felt connected to from the very first time I ever heard this chant. When our heart yearns for something so deeply we have to trust it beyond logic. And we owe it to ourselves to make space to follow the call. I am so glad that I did. Japan, I ❤️ you. 🙏🏼📿🙏🏼 by @theleahforester

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When you match the artwork ❤️ #miami by @theleahforester

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It’s the best feeling when I receive a call from @theleahforester to plan a ritual. For this Chinese New Year, we decided to activate the Fire Horse with a functional sculpture.

The sculpture now living in @casalahuerta_careyes became part of a weekend celebration shared with many incredible friends and family.

Thank you Leah and Bill for all the love and beautiful moments this past weekend. 🤍 by @theleahforester

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🇮🇹 MILANO 🇮🇹 by @theleahforester

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Flashback to 2016. By nature, I’m not a very “nostalgic” person. I live very much in the present and enjoy every moment while also creating my future. When the past is over, it’s past for me. But something about seeing everyone posting flashbacks of 2016 made me start wondering: Who was I then? This is the essence of bittersweet. It was a high point in my life and I was a flower in full bloom, but didn’t really know it then. Family life was at a perfectly sweet moment. Jett and Jade were 8 and our family was so much fun, full of laughs, always loving. Motherhood was something I thought I’d finally figured out. Skyler graduated from NYU. My @bravo TV show debuted with a rush of excitement and it was the first time I walked down the streets and complete strangers recognized me. My home life was full but so was my creative life. I was deeply engaged with my Buddhist chanting practice, I opened @venicesupperclub and was creating experiences that gave me great joy. We had one of our most fun times ever at Burning Man when I took LSD for the first time - while on the Mayan Warrior with my love @yogibillyj and our dear friends @alexgreycosm and @allysongreycosm. What’s difficult looking back on these pictures is that I realize how much has happened since then. And not all of it was great. I tend to focus always on what is wonderful and extraordinary. But the truth is that in 2016 I could never have imagined what would happen in these next 10 years — that the TV show and all the attention it gave me wouldn’t be all it was cracked up to be, that there would be a global pandemic, that I was yet to face the hardest years parenting I could ever imagine, that my father would take his own life, that I would wrestle quite a bit with some of my own demons, that our dear Lola would be eaten by a coyote, that our children would head off to boarding school because life in Los Angeles wasn’t best for them and that we would lose our house and our entire neighborhood in a fire. These photos bring tears because I miss the feeling of being so light, naïve and hopeful. 2016 I miss you. But 2026 I feel like we’re completing a cycle and heading towards the light once again 🙏🏼 by @theleahforester

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