Pierrepont Hicks co-founder Kat McMillan is a woman of many talents. She designs great ties. She makes beautiful kids. And, as anyone who’s been to one of her co-curated NorthernGRADE pop-ups can tell you, she’s got a hell of an eye for quality brands and products. So, when Kat emailed me to tell me about the latest label to pique her interest, I knew, even before clicking the link, that my interest was about to be piqued too. They’re called russell+hazel, and they’re a Minneapolis-based paper goods company whose US-made offerings combine “pleasing design with loads of functionality.” This weekend, russell+hazel, along with Pierrepont Hicks and other MN locals Faribault Mills and martinpatrick3, are holding a men’s accessories event at the r+h flagship store. Wanting to know more about what the two brands had cooked up, I asked McMillan if she’d be game for interviewing r+h founder Chris Plantan. And, lucky for us, she was. Here’s what she turned in.

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