Meet Kyle: model, underrated home chef, and one of the very first friends of Crown Affair. We’ve long admired Kyle for her work, her authenticity on social media, and her easygoing sense of humor, so before we launched in January, we decided to shoot our shot and send her a DM. Lucky for us, she responded, joined us for a three-hour coffee date, and despite no prior meeting the conversation was endless. We chatted about hair, her writing aspirations and self-taught piano skills, and we learned what we already knew: Kyle is a ray of sunshine.

We were thrilled to catch up with Kyle again at her home in Brooklyn to dive through her bookshelves, raid her product stash, and discover the rituals that help her feel calm and whole.

Photographed and written by Alessandra Antonia in Brooklyn.