office of the editor

The Office is the working desk of Modern Monclaire. It selects entries, edits for clarity and context, verifies origin, and records how each piece should be kept. It maintains the style guide and the Index map so the record reads as one. Captions are written, care notes are set, cross-references are added, and language is tuned for ease. The work is quiet and exacting, with attention to usefulness, continuity, and grace.

  • Adrienne berry

    Founder, Editor-in-Chief & Editorial Director

    Adrienne Berry founded Modern Monclaire with a radical clarity: women’s influence is not temporary, it is the foundation of culture. She envisioned the maison as both archive and gallery, a cultural home where rituals, heirlooms, and artistry are not lost to time but preserved as the very fabric of memory. What might appear ordinary — a gesture, a tradition, a creation — becomes extraordinary when honored as part of the cultural record.

    Her vision is rooted in lived experience. Adrienne built her career at the highest levels of people, culture, and leadership, where she saw how quickly influence can be celebrated in the moment yet forgotten without care. Modern Monclaire is her response: an archive designed to resist the fleeting, to protect what endures, and to honor the full breadth of women’s legacies, from the intimate to the iconic.

    As Founder, Editor-in-Chief & Editorial Director, Adrienne is both architect and steward of the maison. She shapes its vision, directs its codes and collections, and safeguards its integrity as a record of permanence. Under her leadership, Modern Monclaire is becoming a place of resonance and authority, a home where women’s artistry and stories are held with the same reverence as history’s most recognized narratives.