When you’re a public figure, allowing someone to peep the most intimate details of your family's life could really go two ways – disastrous or liberating. But the Abrahams, Bess and husband Doug/jewellery designer/Instagram's @bessnyc4 take the family album one step further, and a world away from their fashion work in New York, with a series of stunningly unobtrusive images of free-spirited life – down by the beach, lounging on the sofa or down on the boardwalk eating sweets – landing them on the latter. However, with Bess too shy to promote her own work, the blissful photographs have now been compiled into the book Everything Was So Good, curated by stylist, photographer and friend Zara Mirkin.

"In a day in age where Instagram is just selfies and crap, Bess's images photos have changed my life!" Mirkin tells us. "Honestly, they are so pure and inspiring. So for the New York Art Book Fair (at MoMA PS1) I decided to make-slash-curate a book of her images as I wanted everyone else to see them. She is so humble and shy and would never do anything with her photos." Mirkin got to know the pair through their now-infamous New York store ‘Bess’ and inevitably struck up a friendship with them. "I was intimidated by her (Bess), because her photos were the only thing that would make me feel happy or inspired a lot of the time – that can hold a lot of power over someone," she reveals. Here, Mirkin she shares some of the book's images with us.

Images by Bess Abraham, curated by Zara Mirkin, design by Gabrielle Mirkin. Everything Was So Good is available now