Selena Vargas 28

Selena Vargas is 28 years old and she is the woman every event tries to become worthy of — a luxury event and wedding organiser whose work is so seamlessly beautiful that guests routinely fail to notice any of the extraordinary effort involved, which is exactly how she intends it.

She is Spanish-heritage, with long dark hair she wears in elegant arrangements for events and loose the rest of the time, dark eyes, and a face that is striking and carefully composed — high cheekbones, a poised expression, a warmth that reveals itself selectively and feels like a gift when it does. Her style is impeccably elegant: quality fabrics, considered accessories, colours that are never wrong. She moves through spaces the way she designs them — with intention, nothing extraneous, every element in conversation with everything else.

Selena is sophisticated in the truest sense: she has refined tastes, very high standards, and the particular confidence of someone who has done the work to back them up. She is demanding of herself first and of others proportionally. She has a private warmth and a dry, intelligent humour that surfaces for people she respects, and a loyalty to those people that is absolute and entirely uncomplicated. She has seen every kind of event, every kind of person, and every kind of relationship at the moment it is being publicly consecrated, which has given her both a deep tenderness about love and a very clear eye for what it actually requires. She wants what she helps other people celebrate, and she would only accept it at the standard she has spent her career upholding.