Spotted: Annie Kearney

looking totally angelic in a pair of White Rabbit hotpants from Local Honey! We love Annie!!

Sonic Youth

A big thanks to Carla Antonelli at Stella Shops for this cool write-up! A little foray into inspiration and the relationship between music and fashion by way of Myself, Amanda Valentine, and Poni Silver. I love it.

View the HER Nashville article HERE.

See the Stella Shops article with music and videos HERE.

WHITE RABBIT for NFW 2012

New arrivals from WHITE RABBIT

Over 30 new pieces... dresses, tops, accessories, and jewelry on the racks NOW. Get it!

Photo by Bradley Spitzer.

Everyone Will Be Famous for... 15 Minutes: A Fashion Tribute to Andy Warhol

WHITE RABBIT made it front and center of the HER Nashville Warhol tribute! Start to finish this is great! Thank you to Connie Richardson and HER Nashville for the inclusion!

Check out the issue and shoot credits HERE.

Spotted: Leanne Ford

looking effortlessly cool, per usual for Leanne, in a WHITE RABBIT maxi dress from LH. I didn't even get this one on the rack. She snagged it right out of my studio. M.F.E.O.

VOGUE India

The lovely Zarna Surti (below), a blogger for Vogue India, attended the runway shows and events at NFW and rated WHITE RABBIT in her Top 5. So cool! Check out her write up and snap shots HERE on the VOGUE India site!

A BIG thank you to Zarna for her continued support of Local Honey and White Rabbit! Such a cool mention!



WHITE RABBIT image (top): Bradley Spitzer
Model: Ashley Fisher

LH.NFW.OMG.

So now that Nashville Fashion Week has come and gone, I finally have a moment to sit and share how HUGE it was. If you were keeping up with all of the press... you know there were a tremendous amount of events, shows, and hours spent by everyone involved. From here at Local Honey, it was beyond. With only 5 emerging local designers securing spots on the runway... having 2 of them come from our family of designers and also create the collections right here at 2009 Belmont really brought the experience to a whole new level. It seems every time I turn around there's another article or blogger recognizing Local Honey's contribution to Nashville fashion, but all of the press from the Scene and the Tennessean that circulated during and after Nashville Fashion Week was some of the best! I feel so thankful! Talk about breaking in our new studio! Hannah Jones, Jamie Frazier, and myself racked up the hours one after another until we lost count. Sewing round the clock for weeks produced what turned out to be our best work to date and so many inside jokes we're likely to sound crazy to anyone who comes around for a while. I already knew how lucky I was to have these girls moving in at LH, but I never foresaw this family bond. It's incredible. Now that the smoke has cleared we're getting back to our routines and waiting for the official photos to be released. WHOA. Hoping this won't take much longer! For now, here are just a couple of snap shots from Nashville bloggers who were in attendance. My absolute favorite pic of the J&J girls just before they debuted on opening night at the Pinnacle and a shot from my WR show at the RAD church. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us and to the coordinators for all of their hard work. What a week!

onward

As Local Honey enters into its last month of residence at the Linden Avenue house I'm becoming more than a little sentimental. For those of you who haven't heard yet... the house we have loved for the past 4 years and filled with countless amazing memories, has been sold and I'm relocating the shop to a new home. Though it's sad to leave, this is an incredibly exciting thing! I am very optimistically looking onward and working mondo endurecido. Given the time constraint there has been a lot to do. The past 2 months have been a whirlwind of planning, debating, negotiating, organizing, barely sleeping some nights, and typing my tiny fingers off. But after what felt like the mental equivalent to birthing a yeti... I signed on the line and made it official! Local Honey will take residence at 2009 Belmont Blvd. the first week of January 2011!

Now, this location is BIG. Not only is LH setting up shop, but also menswear aficionados Tidwell and Perryman, an atelier for White Rabbit and Jamie and the Jones, and a sewing school run by Alexia Abegg offering beginning to advanced classes in sewing, drafting, and quilting. The store will boast more stock than ever in a spacious, polished new home and become a more tenacious purveyor of local designer garments and accessories. I'm beyond thrilled. Until then, we are still open for business at the Linden house through the end of the year and holiday shopping is in full swing! We will be hosting this years Christmas Soiree on December 17th and packing the shop with tons of locally made goodies and vintage giftables. So stay tuned for more details on the party and help us send 1207 Linden off proper.

15 pieces of flair

Been REAL busy making giftables for the season. Aside from an arsenal of cocktail rings, I finished up some jersey ear mufflers, suede wrap bracelets, scarves, and wool capes! All of which will be trickling into the store over the next week in preparation for the annual Holiday soiree! More details soon!

round 1

Last month, in preparation for my Fall collection, I began the first in a series of custom fabric treatments I plan to integrate into my looks over the course of the next several months, involving various chemicals, dyes, weaving, and sewing techniques. In correlation with my color scheme it made sense to start with a bleach treatment on black cotton, and 3 gallons of bleach, 16 yards of fabric and 2 very dry hands later... the results were AMAZING. A striking skeletal pattern with teal accents that simultaneously reminds me of an x-ray and the cover of Alien 3.

You can see a couple of the finished garments HERE.

Now I'm ready for round 2, which will include both a dying and weaving project. SUPER excited to get started.

WHITE RABBIT Fall 2010

Clothing- Handmade by Shea Steele for WHITE RABBIT
Photographer- Michael Howard
Make up- Eryk Datura
Hair- Shana Michelle Taylor
Models- Katherine Neff and Salome Steinmann

Diaphanous - White Rabbit August 2010

In a sprint to complete nearly a half dozen projects in one month I ended up with back to back photoshoots. This shoot fell earlier in the timeline and took a little longer to complete. A few late summer looks.

Clothing/Jewelry/Accessories: WHITE RABBIT
Photographer: Michael Howard
Hair and Makeup - Heylee Achten
Model - Trisha Stafford

woot

Got a little shout out in this "Fashion as Art" TV segment on my birthday! Best present ever. Big thanks to the endlessly cool Libby Callaway and Emily Harper Beard of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts for the mention!!

Check it out HERE.