Natasha Esch

Natasha Esch was the president of Wilhelmina Modeling Agency for five years from 1993. She is now an interior designer and the co-founder owner of a shop in Sag Harbor, NY.^[1] Since 2010 she has lived in the Hamptons and Park City, Utah with her husband, Matt Coffin and their daughter and son.

Early life

Esch grew up in Germany, attended a boarding school in Switzerland and studied business at Babson College in the USA.^[2][3]

Wilhelmina Modeling Agency

After graduating, at age 21, her father, Horst-Dieter Esch, a German businessman with interests in the construction industry made her president of the modeling agency Wilhelmina Models that he had purchased in 1989 for around 4 million dollars.^[2] Over a five-year period, Esch oversaw management of this worldwide $20 million operation with subsidiaries in Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, Munich and Hamburg. Esch authored the "Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling",^[4] "Wilhelmina's Modeling & Acting Dictionary",^[5] and "Wilhelmina's World of Child Modeling".^[6]

Natasha Esch Design Interiors

In 1997, Esch moved to the West Coast where she started her own Los Angeles-based interior design firm, Natasha Esch Design Interiors, in 1999. She has bought, developed, and sold six high-end residential homes located in the Hamptons, West Hollywood, Bel Air and Malibu, California. Her designs were featured in Elle Décor, House Beautiful, House & Garden and Los Angeles Times Magazine. She was also featured in the book "Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor."^[7]

MONC XIII

In 2010 Esch and her family moved to The Hamptons, where in 2012 she opened MONC XIII, a retail store in Sag Harbor, NY that sells goods for the home sourced from around the world.^[8]

MONC XIII has been featured in Goop,^[9] Remodelista,^[8] Martha Stewart Living, Elle Décor,^[10] Architectural Digest,^[11] Hamptons Cottages & Gardens,^[12] Dan's Hamptons,^[13] Hamptons Magazine and Dujour.^[14]

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