“He was grace, exquisite taste, principled, and unabashedly in love with his work, his life in the shoe business, and all things beautiful,” said Sarah Jessica Parker of Malkemus, her dear friend and business partner. Malkemus helped launch Manolo Blahnik in the United States and co-owned Arethusa Farm with his husband, Tony Yurgaitis.Though he was of Japanese descent, Hiro was born in Shanghai.
June Newton had many talents and monikers – she acted under the name June Brunell, and her photographs were signed Alice Springs. But despite her accomplishments in her various fields of interest, Newton’s leading role was as Helmut Newton’s other half. So inseparable were the pair that in his remembrance of June, Jonathan Van Meter noted that “a profile of Helmut is necessarily a profile of June.