Nashville’s Disabled Fashion Ambassador and Changemaker Extraordinaire. Executive Director of Nashville Nonprofit Fashion is for Every Body
Hosted by 12th & Broad, Saints and Sinners gave us all a chance to choose between the seven deadly sins or the seven holy virtues in an interactive manner. Guests were encouraged to eat, drink and play games, along with many opportunities to get in shape and donate time, money, or unwanted items to their community. We were also encouraged to, "wear red if you're a sinner or white if you're a saint".
Read MoreThis week finds me feeling unwell and shivering in the bleak, frigid January weather. Nevertheless, I'm excited to show off Riverwood Mansion, another of Nashville's historic homes.
Read MoreOtherwise known as the Christmas Crunch. Let's face it. Christmas is next Thursday; Hannukah starts day-after-tomorrow. If you don't have your gift-giving act together by now you'd better focus. I've been talking shopping for a few weeks now, from the Roman Holiday jewelry collection to other Nashville jewelry artisans and Nashville's best small, independently-owned shops. If you're still not done shopping Here are a few ideas for you, both locally and online.
Read MoreI didn't don a costume for Halloween this year. Instead I dressed up for a very special event. It was a dark and stormy night - really, it was - perfect weather for the Gothic Circus sponsored by 12th & Broad and hosted by Abrasive Media. A celebration of Nashville's growing community of circus artists, the evening's performances included "awe-inspiring aerialists, fire artists, burlesque dancers and graceful acrobatics— blended into narratives, creating a dramatic, sophisticated mash-up of theater, live performances and the body as art."
Read MoreMy better half and I had the honor of attending the first annual Music City Hair Ball. Hosted by 12th & Broad, the Music City Hair Ball was the first-of-its-kind event celebrating creative expression in the most absurd ways possible. As if all of this wasn't enticing enough proceeds from the event, as well as the silent auction featuring works of art and other goodies, benefitted AGAPE animal rescue.
Read MoreLast week the ladies of Nashville's 12th & Broad wrote a piece about birthdays. It turns out they are all Taureans (born between April 20 and May 20) and they shared their thoughts about where they are in their lives and how they celebrated their birthdays. As a double-Taurus myself I can't help but feel a sense of Sisterhood with my new Nashvillians friends, even if they are much younger than I am. Almost everything they're experiencing is old hat to me, but that doesn't mean that my life has run it's course and I'm ready to "go quietly into that good night".
Read MoreThis has been such an amazing week for me. I'm utterly, ecstatically exhausted. If there was ever any doubt about Nashville's growing influence and popularity as a fashion mecca for the South it was laid to rest by my experiences and interactions with Music City's fashion community.
Read MoreApril 2nd, the second night of Nashville Fashion Week, will feature 10 of fashion's Emerging Designers. The Runway show will take place at Ruby followed by an after-party at Music City Tippler. Here's a glimpse at the designers that will be showing their Fall 2014 collections that night.
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