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New Houston home design shops have much to offer - Houston Chronicle

Gust has gotten licensing rights to create from original works. Right now she’s got works by Pam Smillow of New York and Barbara Lanier of Boston. She carries rock ’n’ roll photography by Robert Landau ($1,500 and up), and one clever new product is a collaboration with florist David Brown, when Gust had Brown bring in flowers that were photographed, then manipulated in a variety of colors and backgrounds for prints with bold pops of color ($250, framed). 5338 Cornish; by appointment, call 713-202-0552... https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/style/luxe-life/article/New-Houston-home-design-shops-have-much-to-offer-13810864.php

How to Get Flowers in the Foyer—If You Don’t Have a Butler - The Wall Street Journal

Dior in London and supplies flowers for European events put on by brands like Louis Vuitton. Most notably, it has just crossed the Atlantic and opened for business in New York, its May arrival heralded with a monthlong pop-up store in Bergdorf Goodman. Flowerbx began with a $180,000 personal investment from Bromberg Hawkings; her husband, Peter Hawkings, senior vice president for menswear at Tom Ford; and Ned Salter, an investment director. “We bought a ‘plug and play’ website, leased a van, hired a driver and [rented] a warehouse,” she says. To kick off the business, in April 2015, she sent bouquets to 20 friends, influential people she’d met over nearly two decades at Tom Ford, where she started out as the designer’s personal assistant. “Ranunculus,” she says. “I bought them myself.” Many of the recipients, who included Alexandra Shulman, then editor of British Vogue; Elizabeth Saltzman of Vanity Fair; and Natalie Massenet, founder of the online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter, posted pictures on Instagram. Bromberg Hawkings’s business boomed. “It soon became clear that we needed a second van, a better website. We could see the names in the back end, celebrities and duchesses, and we were like, Shit, this is serious,” she says. The company is based in a warehouse park, next to a graveyard, in the London area of North Acton. By 9 a.m. one early spring morning, it’s been five hours since that day’s flowers arrived by truck from the Netherlands, and the Flowerbx team has already sorted them, wrapped them in brown paper and boxed them up for delivery. Bromberg Hawkings, a 44-year-old Texan who has lived in London for 15 years, steps over the flotsam of the morning’s work—torn foliage and snipped ribbon—in her black-velvet Gucci loafers. “I didn’t know that flowers were Instagrammable,” she says. Another thing she hadn’t anticipated was being asked to do events, the first being to fill London’s River Cafe restaurant with peonies for a Michael Kors launch. More recently, for a Louis Vuitton dinner in Versailles, Flowerbx created a 46-foot-long floral “chandelier” from jungle foliage and orchids; another project found Bromberg Hawkings arranging 35,000 hydrangeas on the facade of the London nightclub Annabel’s at 2 a.m. Five months after launching Flowerbx, Bromberg Hawkings sought further investment. One of the first people she approached was Massenet, who had just left Net-a-Porter. “Immediately I said I would love to invest in the company, because this was something that resonated with me from the get-go,” says Massenet. Flowerbx was the first company that Massenet personally invested in, three years before she co-founded the venture capital fund Imaginary. “Up until then I had been skeptical about people’s ability to deliver on risky ideas,” Massenet says. “Havin... https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-flowers-in-the-foyerif-you-dont-have-a-butler-11556800089

Mother's Day Gift Guide: Fashion Books That Make A Bold Statement - Forbes

It highlights 500 items from the permanent collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York. Each page provides a rare glimpse into the philosophy, aesthetics and process of a featured designer. Perfect for a style connoisseur or a rookie just getting into fashion, it could just inspire you to visit NYC with your Mom on a special shopping and street style getaway next. Vogue: The Covers (updated edition) - Dodie Kazanjian List Price: $60.00 Vogue: The Covers (Updated Edition) by Dodie Kazanjian Courtesy of Abrams Books When it comes to glossy magazines, there is a good reason Vogue is called the Fashion Bible. Spanning 120+ years of print history, this book gives you all the covers now considered iconic plus every cover between 2010 and 2017. Supermodels, the hottest celebrities of their eras, legendary photographers: what a way to immerse oneself and loved ones into the world of breathtaking style. Vogue: The Covers (Updated Edition) by Dodie Kazanjian Courtesy of Abrams Books There are five frameable Vogue prints at the end of the book! You can count it as six fabulous gifts wrapped into one. American Fashion Designers at Home - Rima Suqi List Price: $75 American Fashion Designers at Home by Rima Suqi / 280 pages, 325 illustrations Courtesy of Assouline Oh, to be a fly on the wall! With more designers becoming celebrities in their own right (will anyone from the industry run for President?), we tend to have an interest in more than what they have to offer for the runway. This book takes you on the ultimate backstage journey into the inner sanctuaries of over one hundred Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) members. American Fashion Designers at Home by Rima Suqi / 280 pages, 325 illustrations Courtesy of Assouline Not only you can glimpse their private worlds, but also get some amazing ideas on how to redecorate your own living-working space. It’s a very fashionable win-win. a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-hidden-history-of-american-fashion-9781350001046/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow n... https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanrabimov/2019/05/01/mothers-day-gift-guide-fashion-books-that-make-a-bold-statement/

Five Couples Escape the Familiar for Destination Weddings - Louisville.com

Read about each couple's special day below.Brea Wilson and DeArejon “Keeb” WhiteWed on October 10, 2018Brooklyn, New YorkPhotographer:  Larisa Shorina Photography, New York CityAttire: Wedding gown from Bridal & Formal in Cincinnati. Blue Calvin Klein suit from Men’s Wearhouse.Hair: Bangs N Brows, BrooklynMakeup: Rese’s Makeup Artistry, Brooklyn “(The ceremony) was on the rooftop of 68 Jay Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn,” Brea says. “After the ceremony, we strolled around the streets to take pictures, and then hung out in Manhattan until 2 a.m. It was a good night!“Personally, I wanted the big wedding with the 200-plus guest list. Keeb never wanted that. We ultimately decided to travel away, and we’re both very happy that we did. We didn’t have to go crazy with planning a huge wedding. We wish we would have hired a wedding planner. It would’ve been helpful to have someone more experienced and also more familiar with the area to assist us. And maybe we should’ve shared the surprise with more of our close family and friends prior to the big day/announcement.”Taiesha N. Washington & Ke’Onda L. JarmonWed on June 23, 2018Henderson Beach State Park, Destin, FloridaPhotographer: Michael HammerAttire: Gilded Gown, Knoxville, Tenness... https://www.louisville.com/content/five-couples-escape-familiar-destination-weddings