Grace Mahary Takes a Pause From Modeling for Wine

Instead of the usual show schedule this past September, Grace Mahary was far from the rush of Spring Studios, but rather sequestered away in a classroom, studying wine. Mahary, who is represented by IMG and has walked for Chanel, Dior, Valentino, Balenciaga and others, was certified as a sommelier in September by the International Culinary Center in New York. She was one of five in a class of 17 to pass the 10-week course, and the only woman of color in the group. See also: Grace Mahary’s Guide to the Best Wine Bars in NYC Naturally, the course conflicted with the September show schedule; Mahary decided to pull out of all jobs for the summer, and when it came time for fashion week she only worked on the weekend (which was, as luck would have it, the weekend before her exams). “When you’re immersed in something so heavily for so many consecutive days and weeks, the break of taking yourself out of it for two days and doing the running around of fashion week kind of helped me come back with a new perspective, and refresh my appreciation for what I was studying,” she says. “It was like, ‘Oh, and I actually want to

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