Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Merry Maps!!!

I had dinner with a friend of mine Daley Harris the other night. She is a brilliantly talented artist! She creates custom hand drawn maps & invitations for weddings. She did a map for my sister's wedding in August for the out of town guest's gift bags! A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!

Check out some of her work below. She is so talented!!

http://merrymaps.com/








Ode to Billy Reid

When I read this article about designer Billy Reid, I almost cried. I had the privilege of listening to him speak at a Design Conference held at Auburn University in 2007. He is very down to earth and incredibly creative. He draws his design concepts from the preppy, laid back culture of the South. Billy Reid truly inspires me. Here is part of the article from the New York Times.

The Designer Billy Reid Wins Major Fashion Award
By STUART EMMRICH


When the actress Carey Mulligan announced last night that Billy Reid had been voted the winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner for 2010 — in front of a crowd that included the designers Michael Kors, Olivier Theyskens. Jason Wu, Zac Posen and Alexander Wang; the “True Blood” stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin; the ubiquitous Kim Kardashian; and the evening’s co-chairwoman Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue — there was a brief, seemingly stunned silence, followed by a burst of enthusiastic applause and whoops and hollers from the back of the room, from which the 46-year-old designer shakily made his way toward the stage.

“I did not expect to be up here tonight,” he said in an emotional voice. “I’m shocked.”

He probably wasn’t the only one. Earlier in the evening, as guests mingled over cocktails and mini-cheeseburgers (the former enthusiastically accepted, the latter all but ignored), early betting was that the award, which came with $300,000 and a specially commissioned bronze swan by the sculptor Rachel Feinstein, would go to one of the better-known 10 finalists, like Prabal Gurung or the fast-rising Joseph Altuzarra.

Moments before the award was announced, the designer Carolina Herrera turned to a fellow dinner guest at her table, which included Diane Von Furstenberg, Francisco Costa, David Lauren, the artist John Currin and his wife, Ms. Feinstein, and murmured, “It will be Altuzarra, no?”

No.

Instead the award went to someone who grew up in the small Louisiana town of Amite, later studying at the Art Institute of Dallas and working as a buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue before introducing his own line in 2004. He now works out of a studio in Florence, Ala. (He also has a shop on Bond Street, in Manhattan, as well as a few other cities.) As he said on stage, tightly grasping the Feinstein sculpture, “It’s a long way from Amite.”

Photos from Vogue.com of the Event

Billy Reid's Website Shots

I love these looks. Southern Comfort & Southern Style