SWEET vid!

A big thanks to our good friend Heidi Jewell of Under the Guise for including us in her tour de Nashville video for ModCloth! SO COOL!!!

Jamie and the Jones at nD

Back in April, in-house designers Jamie and the Jones secured the emerging designer slot in this years nD Festival fashion show! After months of planning, sewing, and adding the millions of final details that they've become known for, the two unveiled their newest collection at the festival's finale last week. I have yet to see the full collection in images, but the short film below by Kristin Barlowe is such a compelling portrayal of their aesthetic you don't need much else. Congratulations to Jamie and Hannah for the much deserved recognition and hats off for knocking it out of the park!

DEAD heads

YEAH! Its that time... NASHVILLES DEAD is hosting the second annual Freakin' Weekend and this year we're teaming up again for something sweet! In addition to the bevy of rad shows, including Davila 666 at Third Man that I'm particularly stoked about (see video below), they're also setting up a Nashvilles Dead pop-up shop inside Local Honey! So you'll have 3 awesome days to score all the 7"s, LPs, cassettes, and prints your little hearts can handle. Come get it!

Check out the full show details HERE.
and the Scene scoop HERE.

POP-UP SHOP HOURS:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday NOON-5:00
CASH ONLY

Full list of loot HERE.

Davila666 - Tan Bajo - Promo Video from PURO VICIO on Vimeo.

BC

New arrivals from the BOSS CONSTRUCTION print press coming in next week! You cannot beat $20 a pop for these, SUCH a steal. Get em!

ooooh!

Looks like everyone's got the hots for Nashville right now. Just on the heels of a major movie shoot and Nylon's swing through town for the who and the what, ELLE.COM has followed suit with a Nashville City Guide that further explores our art, design, and food offerings. They put together their favorite picks of young restaurateurs, designers, crafters, and stylists and honored the "newfound chicness" of our southern culture that's come as a result of all this year's exposure. They had some nice things to say about Local Honey! Pretty awesome. Check it out HERE.

MADE

Local handmade goods are one of my absolute favorite things. Especially the ones I can wear! So when my long time friend (practically my sister) Ashley decided to open up a shop devoted to local crafters and artists... I was pumped! MADE picks up right where Local Honey leaves off, offering a killer assortment of handmade housewares, art, accessories and jewelry- including some of my own handmades and mixed media work! The store is full of addictive charm and I doubt you'll leave empty handed. Check it out online HERE or visit the store at 717 Porter Rd. East Nashville 37206!!

holiday child

With Venus in retrograde, and the onset of legitimately cold weather, I don't feel like doing anything in my free time other than catching movies, pondering art, or staring at the wall. Fortunately there have been a slew of worthy diversions that fall into these parameters and aren't viewable from my couch, so I'm not wasting away in utter vacuousness. In the past few weeks I've seen a Basquiat doc, a Dennis Hopper doc, a Ginsberg biopic, the pretty stupendous Enter The Void, and a John Lennon biopic. Not a bad run. Now, local artist Shane Doling has an exhibition up at Twist Gallery that I'll be making my way down to see this weekend. If you're in Nashville, you should do the same. More info HERE.

big love

Procured my newest issue of NYLON today, and though not usually a noteworthy event as I've had a subscription since year two and probably still have the very first issue stashed somewhere in my ridiculous mountain of saved magazines, this particular copy is special! During their recent cross-country cool hunt, associate editor Rebecca Davis and crew stopped in Nashville to sink their teeth into what makes our city hop- and I gotta say, they did their homework! Not only did they request an interview with moi about a week before they arrived, but by the time they got here they had contacted enough of my friends and done enough digging to send everyone into a tizzy. My phone was vibrating to death! What they put together might very well have been the exact collection of Nashville people I would have chosen to feature and I've lived here 11 years! So, hats off to NYLON, super pumped, and thanks to my amazing circle of vibrant, talented friends for the overwhelming love.

Check out my write-up below... and see the full Nashville review in the November issue!

gunners

If you're anything like me, then reusing and recycling are important to you. Even though sometimes my kitchen gets overrun with bags of glass bottles waiting to be hauled to the recycling center and my bin looks more like a mountain, I still religiously rinse, break down, and stash. So any help getting these things to their proper destination is huge. Of course, Curby is the best known resource for households. But I recently discovered a locally operated glass recycling service called GUNNERS. They will bring you a bin to put on your porch and stop by to empty it twice a month... all for only $6 a month! This is great. But the key to keeping these kinds of luxuries around is by supporting them. So sign up!

Visit their site for more information HERE.

cool

Have been SO busy this month with everything under the sun. It's been an incredible whirlwind and I am only now getting around to sharing some of the cool things produced, large and small. I feel thrilled to have contributed to this project. Was so curious how it would turn out and adore seeing one of my favorite girls in the cast. A film created for Proenza Schouler by local Nashville director Harmony Korine. Enjoy.

thanks for the love

My friends over at NASHVILLES DEAD never fail to warm my heart. Really! In all of the countless tasks on my to-do list in the past few weeks, somehow blogging about my Fall Fashion Weekend didn't get crossed off. Good thing your friends have your back... spreading the word, showing up with bells on, and even shooting pics both days! For now, HERE you can see their write up. I plan to share some of the pics once I get them all sorted!

and this...

Naked Without Us Festival 2010 from Naked Without Us on Vimeo.

After a hellishly busy April and not the smoothest transition into a more relaxing May, I've been sorta out of sorts... to say the very least. Completing 10 looks for Naked Without Us 2010 in one month was quite an undertaking, considering I became obsessed with making separates this year? My collection was comprised of 20 handmade garments and 8 handmade necklaces, and after finishing it... I was TIRED. So tired in fact, that I got sick. I had exhausted myself to the point of illness and true to form, I had already taken the liberty of scheduling a photoshoot for the following week to document all of the work I'd done. So, rather than resting, a mere 2 days after the show I was out in the rain, cold wind, and hail, shooting a look book in the woods. Aside from all of the obvious negatives, the shoot went REALLY well!! Then I got really sick... sleep all day sick... and this is where it all started to amass into a huge confusing blur. After a broken AC unit at the store during the hottest week yet this year, a satellite failure during the biggest pay-per-view boxing match of the year, a devastating city wide flood (obv), a flat tire on the interstate, a RAGING sunburn that I still cannot explain, seeing my mother for the first time in 7 years, sewing through my fingertip and having to pull the needle out with a pair of pliers, and last but not least, an order from Metro to install a main line backflow on my water line ($900 or my business would be denied water service)... I officially had a melt down. There's stress and then there's life taking a huge dump on you. Mine was the latter I think.

Solution: I took an entire week off from work. It was good. Given my tendency to make lists of things to do, I couldn't help but indulge in some housework and errands, but mainly I tried to get as much rest as possible, not bother myself with any decisions or stress, and indulge in complete vacuousness and personally rewarding work like planting my flower beds! I'm feeling pretty dang refreshed and was happy to start this week off with FINALLY getting a look at some of the documentation of the fashion show! Including the above video montage put together by Dylan Reyes and Chancellor Warhol. I really like it and it renewed my sense that I had done something cool and fun rather than feeling like I'd been body slammed. I'm glad to be back on track, guhhhh... and I'll be busy the next few days organizing all of the new photos from my shoots that I have yet to show anyone!

DANG what a month.

WHITE RABBIT spring 2010...

10 looks @ Naked Without Us//Fashion and Music Festival - April 24
LOOKBOOK of full collection - May 1

More information about Naked Without Us HERE

night rider

2 amazing shots from one of my most favorite local photographers Dylan Reyes, purveyor of the coolest scene documentation in Nashville.

killa bunnies

The local Nashville art pressing, the Rabbit, has launched a new online home this week. The site looks really nice and I love what these guys are doing. Since beginning their project, they have created a synergy in the local art scene that I think is healthy and much needed. Not to mention their release parties are crazy FUN. I can only expect that this will continue to grow and be cooler and cooler each year. In the newest edition you can see an interview with Amanda Valentine of VALENTINE VALENTINE, a friend and Local Honey comrade, and peruse other local fashion blurbs, art happenings, and music related articles. Check it HERE.

...and for those of you out there that caught the Moloko reference, I love you.

freak out

The weekend is ONNNN. NASHVILLES DEAD is kicking off The Freakin Weekend tonight and hosting shows through sunday! Also, Halcyon Bike Shop is having a sale all day tomorrow in their parking lot.... all sorts of cool cheap stuff for sale from friends and vendors. For more info and band listings go HERE!

*PLUS*
If you attend any of the 3 shows or the sale you'll get one of these baybeez... yeah you did the math right... 5 bucks off a $5 sale item=FREE.

black metal

Friends seem to be my favorite topic these days. They just keep it coming. I have certainly nestled myself in the center of a bounty of amazing creative people and my latest news is evidence that this accumulation of wunderkind started long ago. As far back as, well, the ripe old age of 7. I met my friend Paige on the first day of second grade. My older sister Candi had just walked me down the hallway of our new school and left me at my classroom. I was terrified and started to cry while I walked over and sat down at my desk. Before I knew it there was a girl standing next to me telling me not to cry. I looked up at her and said, "I want Candi" and she said, " well... I don't have any." Haha. I laughed so hard I forgot I was scared and I had already made a new friend. A best friend actually. Our reign of terror spanned our elementary and high school careers and even into our twenties. I moved to Nashville, while she moved to Memphis. It was a haul. The distance made it hard to hang out, along with our maniacal early twenties in general. Let's face it... we were nuts. We ended up at odds and lost touch.
Until this week I had no idea where she was or what she'd been up to for the last 8 years. Though, of course, I had often wondered. Good thing she found me!! Apparently, just like me, she's been busy. For the last 4 years she's been running an independent metal label called Negative Existence. WHAT!? Along with her boyfriend Alex, she started this label and distro that now carries more than 3000 titles from black metal and death metal artists, including more than a half-dozen artists from their own label. Mind= BLOWN.

Coincidentally... Until the Light Takes Us opens at the Belcourt this weekend. A movie about black metal and "it's rise to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide..." read more HERE

bridging the gap

So, the Holidays were an awesome BLUR. I barely worked, attended multiple amazing parties, and consumed copious amounts of champagne... which inevitably leaves me wanting to die the next day, but hey, it's festive. Now, it's a new year! Projects are sprouting up left and right and the shop is putting meat back on it's bones after being picked dry. Meanwhile, some of my friends have been blowing up their blogs with GOLD. Apparently not everyone has been slacking shit like me. Woops. SO now I'm getting up to speed. By blogging about my friends' blogs.
Just before the Holidays I was asked by NASHVILLES DEAD to be one of 12 contributors to their 12 Days of Listmas. I was allowed to make a top 10 list of anything of my choice and after a week of soul searching... I chose slang. (Someone needs to wash my mouth out with a bar of soap) You can view my list HERE and then check out all of the cool stuff they've put up since then. I love their site. I also just discovered today that my friend Brent has a blog??????? and now I'm having a mild heart attack. Brent is one of those friends that is tuned into another universe. Literally everything that comes out of his mouth is funny. Wether he's telling me he wants to "zingle in my farm farm" or making bizarre references to Brandy (the 90's pop star)... it's an adventure just listening to him talk. So, check out his collection of cyber ramblings here: RUMPLE PUMP. Mucho el amor.

Operatic

Last week I had the rad experience of attending the preview performance of Puccini's TOSCA at the Nashville Opera. Never having been to the opera before, I didn't know what to expect. I was both intrigued and nervous. Being a huge fan of the arts, I had a feeling I would love it. However, I will admit there was still the slight fear that it would be stuffy and pretentious. Not the case AT ALL. The show far exceeded my expectations! Not only was the caliber of talent completely impressive, the show was excellent!! TOSCA is a racy story! A tale of intense love, jealousy, evil lust, and essentially the ultimate sacrifice. WHOA. A highly recommended treat.

Information on upcoming performances HERE

Fanny's III

The first day of FALL is just around the corner and this is the absolute best time to stock up on discounted summer dresses and start adding new things to your cold weather collection! This sale will be packed to the gills with BOTH. Boots, jackets, sweaters, dresses galore, and everything in between. Don't miss out!

This saturday Sept 19th
10 to 6
East Nashville