10/13/2026
EMILY GERNE
PRINCIPAL | EGB INTERIORS
Some people discover their creative side. Emily’s parents discovered hers when they came home to find she’d painted her bedroom ceiling. By high school, she was designing and sewing clothes her classmates actually paid money for. An early adopter of the ask forgiveness, not permission school of thought.
After Middlebury, Emily landed at Harper’s Bazaar, producing shoots with legendary photographers Patrick Demarchelier and Peter Lindbergh. Somewhere between fashion and fine art, she developed a fascination with the business of beautiful things—which led her to Columbia for her MBA.
Next stop: Bloomingdale’s, where she spent a decade buying luxury fashion, developing private-label collections, and eventually landing a strategy role created just for her. Creative instincts, meet spreadsheet.
In 2019, Emily and Jen launched EGB Interiors. What began as a side hustle became a full-blown obsession, then a full-time business. Her father’s advice to “be your own boss” finally stuck. Apparently, having twelve jobs at once was the dream.
Today, she brings that same love of fashion, art, color, and all things collected to interiors. She’s never met an emerging artist she didn’t want to discover, a textile rabbit hole she couldn’t disappear down, or a detail too small to obsess over.
Off the clock (a relative term), she’s coaching girls lacrosse, raising money for Bailey’s Warriors and Cycle for Survival, plotting the next family adventure, or making her grandmother’s vodka sauce with her three kids.
The through line? A lifelong love of beautiful things, a slightly irrepressible entrepreneurial streak, and the belief that great design—like great fashion—should have personality, tell a story, and never take itself too seriously.
And yes, she still thinks painting the ceiling is a perfectly reasonable idea. Her parents have recovered.
A peek inside Emily’s favorites folder 💚
All things green (celadon, especially). A beautifully set table. Spicy margaritas (heavy on the spicy). Notre Dame football. Live music. A good book on the beach. Fresh cut peonies. Paddle tennis ( ). Parisian anything. Stripes, herringbo