nD Festival: September 22 - 25, 2010

The nD Festival to benefit the Belcourt Theatre will take place Wednesday, September 22 through Sunday, September 26, 2010. Events include Whiskey & Wine Wednesday, Supper, Song & Cinema, Patron & Sponsor Party, Mimosas, Marys and a Movie, and the EnD fashion show. A detailed event list can be seen on the Belcourt’s website and below. Ticket prices vary per event but general admission costs $175 and for Belcourt members $150. Those tickets can be purchased here.


This fashion event will showcase the latest designs from fashion heavy hitters Alabama Chanin, Billy Reid, and Imogene + Willie. The festival also includes stylish boutique preview events.

“We are thrilled to bring together such incredible talent and art forms for this very special event that benefits the Belcourt Theatre,” says Holly Hoffman Bryant, nD Festival chair. “Our guests will see the best in independent fashion – wonderfully talented jewelry and clothing designers – as well as a silent auction and lots of fun. The nD Festival is Nashville’s fashion event of the year.”

“The Belcourt Theatre, known for presenting the best in independent films and so much more, is the ideal home for nD Festival,” says Libby Callaway, nD Festival fashion chair and former fashion editor of the New York Post. “Fashion takes many cues from cutting edge films, and THE EnD fashion show features some of the best in local and regional fashion talent.”

According to sources, Nashville’s most fashionable crowd will gather at the Belcourt Theatre Sunday, September 26 from 5 to 8 pm for the EnD fashion show. The evening begins with a silent auction that includes Southwest Airlines tickets, travel packages to Chicago, Washington DC and the Gulf Coast, beautiful jewelry, fashion and much more. Showcasing the true indie spirit of the festival, the fashion show artfully combines runway fashion with live indie music by the PawnShop kings. “Reality” models—real customers of the brands—will walk the Belcourt runways and give audiences a close-up look at fresh fashion. Inspiring documentaries by producer Loree Gold will give thoughtful insight on each designer’s work.

Throughout the evening, guests will enjoy an incredible variety of food by Nashville Originals and an open bar featuring specialty drinks compliments of Horizon Wine and Spirits, Barefoot Wines & Bubbly and Starr Hill Brewery. Patron-level ticket holders will enjoy exclusive VIP reserved seating.

Information regarding the event and tickets can be purchased here. This is an event not to be missed.

FESTIVAL PASSES

Includes admission to ALL events and IS transferable

General Admission: $175.00

Belcourt Members: $150.00


WEDNESDAY, September 22

Event: Whiskey & Wine Wednesday

Location: Billy Reid & H. Audrey

and The Cosmetic Market, The HILL CENTER, Green Hills

Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm

Cost: $10


THURSDAY, September 23

Event: Supper, Song & Cinema

Location: Imogene + Willie’s on 12S

Time: 5:00pm until ?

Cost: FREE, donations accepted.

Film: The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando

(thanks to Tom Wills for providing this from his personal collection)


FRIDAY, September 24

Event: All Access Patron & Sponsor Party

showcasing PROJECT ARTISAN Jewelers - Debe Dohrer,

Many Will See, and Plum Vintage Jewelry.

Location: Zeitgeist, then Opening movie at The Belcourt Theatre

Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm

Cost: For Patron Level and Sponsors ONLY

Film: Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday

(part of a nationwide tour courtesy of the French Embassy NYC & Janus Films)

Music: Joshua Payne, Babel Music Artist


SATURDAY, September 25

Event: Mimosas, Marys and a Movie

Location: Belcourt Theatre

Time: 11:00am for light brunch by Provence Bakery & Cafe, Movie at Noon

Cost: $20 Belcourt Members / $25 for Non-Members.

Film: Jacques Tati's Jour de Fete

(part of a nationwide tour courtesy of the French Embassy NYC & Janus Films)

Music: Robby Hecht, Babel Music Artist


SUNDAY, September 26

Event: THE EnD FASHION SHOW

Location: Belcourt Theatre

Time: 5:00pm-8:00pm

Cost: Patrons/All Access (all events & VIP Seating)

$150 Belcourt Members/$175 non-Members.

A Splash of Style Fashion and Jewelry Show: September 25, 2010

The Splash of Style Fashion and Jewelry Show will be held Saturday, September 25, 2010 at the Inspiration Centre (2286 Rosa Park Blvd.) in Nashville, TN. No details were available concerning fashion or jewelry designers to be featured, but according to the website, “this event will be a fun fashionable networking event”. Doors open at 7:00 pm and the show begins at 7:30 pm. Finger foods and wine will be served and admission costs $22.


Unlike most local fashion events, this one is adults only. The Splash of Style website specifies no kids are allowed and a dress code will be enforced; men and women are to be “neat and clean looking”, outfitted in business casual or formal dress.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Fashion Week Nashville: September 8 - 11, 2010

After being postponed once, Fashion Week Nashville is back. Schedule to take place September 8 through September 11, 2010. The week will include runway shows, a VIP Soiree at The Red House, a Fashion Night, and a Night Out of shopping events.


The VIP Soiree will be held Wednesday, September 8 and costs $25 to attend. Guests will sip wine, be treated to hors d’oeuvres, and get a sneak-peek chance to preview collections.

The fashion runway show will be held Saturday, September 11, 2010 and costs $10 to attend. Although womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear will be showcased, featured designers include Axiom Labeled Collection, Gent Menswear, God's Princess, and Liz Alig and Mission Savvy.

A portion of the proceeds are to benefit Middle Tennessee flood victims.

Information regarding Fashion Week Nashville can be found here.

Nashville Fashion Blog

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Strumpet and Pink Lingerie - Her Rich Attire Creeps Rustling to her Knees

I'm intrigued and fascinated by the marketing of this brand. It's so simple and carefully edited. The products themselves are divine and really need very little to promote them, except a great bottom underneath. The vintage "unfinished" and deconstructed styling of the range is simply beautiful and bang on trend.

A seductive and glamorous approach to lingerie marketing too. The models are not retouched, rounded, and ivory skinned, with a voyeuristic, anonymous feel - you can't tell who the model is, so the product and the beautiful, fair skinned behind, becomes the heroine.

Fifi

 Key Lime

Garden of Delights

 Bow Peep

 Hunting Through The Ruffles

Willow

Black Swan

Garden of Delights

Dress Shirt

Rosette Cheeks

Strumpet & Pink, founded in 2002 by Lisa Z Morgan and Melanie Probert, focus on limited-edition handmade knickers, using pure silk, satin, chiffon, and crepe. Morgan and Probert say of their creations (source The Lingerie Post): “Our prime concern; how does a woman actually feel when she wears one of our creations. It is this experience that makes our knickers beautiful. Strumpet & Pink achieve this by embodying the sensibilities of the flower i.e beauty, fragility, sexuality and joy and combining these with the sensuous qualities of pure silk crepe, satin, chiffon and tulle. The knickers are cut on the bias in such a way as to trace and disclose the contours of the female form. Our knickers brim with contradictions; they feel beautiful, sensuous, humorous, naïve, sexual, confident and playful. Each pair holds a discovery…”

Available at Glamorous Amorous

Modern Chinoisie Style Painting - Kathe Fraga

 La Vie En Rose © Kathe Fraga

"Imagine you’re strolling down a fabulous old street in the heart of Paris and you spy a wonderful decades-old mansion, sooty with age and covered with gargoyles and window boxes overflowing with lavender, roses, honeysuckle. You stop to admire but then, out of the corner of your eye you see a big black wrecking ball about to smash the building down. 'Noooo,' you cry as you clutch your Lulu Guinness handbag and rush in, determined to save the age-old hand-decorated plastered panel walls."

Dans Le Jardin © Kathe Fraga

Evocative of the hand-painted, timeworn walls of a grand old Parisian mansion, the paintings in Kathe Fraga's French Wallpaper Series resemble aged decorative fresco panels adorned with  birds and flowers, vines and leaves in a modern Chinoiserie style.

Graga's beautifully vintage yet modern art is inspired by vintage silky kimonos, hand-worked embroidery, lacquered little boxes, blocked wallpaper and panels from years ago, distressed with age, revealing a soft loveliness still…you’ll see layered colours peeking out behind one another—pinks, blues, lavender—speckles of gold, a wisp of glitter. Look for a small shy heart. A nestle of lovebirds. A French phrase. Each piece meant to be seen as part of a larger scene that’s been hidden away…until now.

 Les Chansons de les Fleurs © Kathe Fraga

Toujours Ensemble © Kathe Fraga

  La Belle Saison © Kathe Fraga

Les Fleurs de L'Ile © Kathe Fraga

Kathe's next show opens on September 4 at Museo Gallery in Langley, Washington. 

Don't miss out on one of these exquisite original works by an exceptional painter!

Rachel Zoe's "I Die" For Fashion Spread In Harper's Bazaar Magazine

The super stylish celebrity stylist and reality star Rachel Zoe always dressing her Hollywood star clients in famous designers like Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors to Vera Wang. With her very own unique style, her looks has been copied and emulated by many fashionistas.

In the September 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Rachel Zoe is in a stunning spread that features her with some seriously sought-after American designers. Harper's Bazaar cleverly using the common use phrase that Rachel always use whenever she saw something super fabulous "I Die! " and Fusing fashion and fantasy, images depict what would actually happen if the stylist to the stars really did "die" for fashion with the designers themselves going in for the kill!

Photographed by Douglas Friedman, my favorite one is the impeccably dressed Michael Kors digging Rachel's fashionable grave, with the perfect accessories to murder! "To die for" fabulous Michael Kors high heels and handbags! (Click on the photo to see it in full size)

Michael Kors syas to the magazine: " The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for"

I also love the one of Vera Wang offering Rachel a cocktail and secretly pouring poison from her ring into the drink! haha. (Click on the photo to see it in full size)

Vera Wang tells the magazine: "I only want to kill Rachel when I don’t land one of her fabulous clients for the Oscars!"

How can we not love the photo of Marc Jacobs tied down Rachel on an electrocution chair, dipping her feet in a bucket of water and pretend to give her the "Perm" of her life! LOL (Click on the photo to see it in full size)

Marc Jacobs says to the magazine: "Rachel’s energy is electrifying…and often shocking! "

Here is a video of behind the scene of this fabulous photoshoots!



You can check out more to-die-for photos below or go to HarpersBazaar.com for the entire story.

Until next time, be well and look fabulous!

XOXO

Alan + Mei-Mei the pug