Although they met in Chicago a decade ago, Shane Gabier, 43, and Christopher Peters, 33, the designers of the clothing line
Creatures of the Wind,
are a New York couple these days, living in Lower Manhattan in a prewar
building that was, appropriately enough, originally built to provide
housing for garment industry workers. “Sundays are our only day when we
are physically forced not to work, because our office building is closed
on that day,” Mr. Peters said. “So even if we wanted to come in, you’re
not allowed to. We commit Sundays to actually living our lives.”
HEALTHY HIPPIE FOOD Shane Gabier:
We wake up between 9:30 and 10 a.m. and eat breakfast at home. We eat
pretty much the same thing every day; we have a very well-worn path.
It’s some form of peanut butter and bananas on toast, or chia pudding. Christopher Peters: It’s some sort of healthy hippie food, basically, grains and fruits and nuts and stuff like that.
COFFEE AND CHITCHAT SG: We go to
Café Grumpy
for coffee every morning. We’re definitely there by around 11. We
really can’t wait too long or we’ll get a coffee headache. That place is
kind of like “Cheers.” We will always see at least two or three people
we know, hang out for a few minutes and chat.
PRIORITY WORKOUTS SG: Then we walk through Chinatown, through the park between Chrystie and Forsyth, to go to the gym. CP:
There are all the elderly Chinese people playing card games, mah-jongg,
and every other game you can possibly think of. It’s supercool; there
are just people getting really rowdy and playing games. SG: We go to Equinox. The SoHo one is our Sunday one, always. I run; I try and do five to six miles. CG:
I’ve started to get into lifting. Wherever we’re at, we’re at an
Equinox at some point during the day. It’s good to be able to do that
for yourself.
SUSTENANCE SG: After that, we go for brunch.
CP: A lot of times we go to
Lovely Day, and I always get the same thing. I like a glass of wine after the gym, because it really carries you.
SG:
Chris gets the salmon and I get the strawberry pancakes, sometimes with
wine, sometimes without. If we don’t go to Lovely Day, then we’ll go to
Dimes. Dimes is kind of like our go-to place every day. We go to Dimes grocery almost seven days a week for whatever.
CP: Food is superimportant. I probably like food about as much as I like clothes.
SG: And food is something that we have never skimped on. Whatever happens, we are always eating well, just for general morale.
CULTURE VULTURES SG:
By around 3, if we’re not at home spacing out on the sofa, we go to a
museum. MoMA is my favorite: I love the architecture; I love the
courtyard; I love being up a couple levels and looking over that central
space on the second floor. Then we high-tail it back down to our
neighborhood, on the F train.
