As senior vice president of Sotheby's Midwest, Gary
Metzner has long been passionate about art, but in his
13 years with Scott Johnson he's become much more
attuned to fashion as well. "I'd never even been in
Prada until I met him," deadpans Metzner, whose hus-
band chuckles while sipping coffee in their gallery-like
River North condo on a sunny Friday morning.
"[Now] everyone there knows our names!"
Metzner first met Johnson, a medical physicist, in
2001, and the couple were just married in Chicago in
August—in custom Thom Browne suits, no less. "We
handpicked all the fabrics and everything, so we
really created it on our own," says Johnson of the
day-of jackets, pants, shirts, and bow ties. He's
always been particular about his wardrobe ("Even
as a child, I remember looking at my mother's fash-
ion magazines and being like, 'Where are the guys'
clothes?'"), while Metzner's prepster aesthetic took
shape while he was a saddle-shoe-wearing student at
Indiana University. "Every time I walk in the lobby
with a regular tie on, the doorman's like, 'Where's
your bow tie?'" He cites The Cordial Churchman in
North Carolina as a favorite source for neckwear
("You can actually send them your old ties and
they'll turn them into a bow tie"), while locally
Johnson praises Barneys, Lanvin, Saint Laurent,
Marc Jacobs, and—more recently—Topman as go-to
shops. "I'm more of an introvert, he's more of an
extrovert," Johnson says of Metzner, who has
become known around the city as a talented benefit
auctioneer. "Going with him to all the charity events,
I want to wear something different to each one."
t h e d a p p e r d u o
newlyweds gary metzner and
scott johnson hit the town
in a style that's all their own.
