Brooke’s father Sidney Garber loved beauty, grace and elegance. The son of a watchmaker, Sidney opened his jewelry store in 1946.

Brooke played with the charms on the floor in front of the safe as a toddler. She stood behind the counter as soon as she could see over it. By the time Brooke was a teenager, Sidney Garber was an elegant boutique on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Sidney instilled in his daughter that same love of creativity, possibility, detail and fine execution as she traveled with him to ateliers in Paris and Milan, to the small workshops in Valenza, Vicenza and Arezzo, to the stone cutters in Idar Oberstein, and to the diamond market in New York.

In 2008, Brooke inherited Sidney Garber. There is now a shop on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, Sidney Garber collections in five Barneys New York locations, The Row and Just One Eye in Los Angeles and Amaree’s in Newport Beach, Moda Operandi and Net-A-Porter.

Today, the elegant business that Brooke’s father built serves an even larger mission: Brooke gives all of her profits to not-for-profit organizations dedicated to children’s mental health and wellness, to education and to the arts.