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- Home Decor - candles and holders, frames tabletop, vases and more
Monday, April 1, 2013
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SMALL BUSINESS AMERICA STILL EXISTS AND IS THRIVING
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Fashion Style + Business: Thank you BRAHMIN!
Thank you BRAHMIN!
BRAND NEW TO THE BRAHMIN COLLECTION!
Simple and chic the anytime mini can be worn with shoulder strap for a day out or strap can be worn wristlet style for an eveing look. Small enough to tuck into your everyday tote or used for travel.
Get yours! http://www.brahmin.com/product/G90151NE/mineral-croco-anytime-mini-bag-mineral
Thank you BRAHMIN!
BRAND NEW TO THE BRAHMIN COLLECTION!
Simple and chic the anytime mini can be worn with shoulder strap for a day out or strap can be worn wristlet style for an eveing look. Small enough to tuck into your everyday tote or used for travel.
Get yours! http://www.brahmin.com/product/G90151NE/mineral-croco-anytime-mini-bag-mineral
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Vogue Influencers Network
The Red card attached said:
Dear Leslie,
You’ve been selected by Vogue to discover Brahmin, a luxury handbag company known for its timeless, sophisticated styles.
It also goes on to tell me that the Anytime Tote will not be available in stores until May. It will however, be available on April 15 on Brahmin.com and in the Brahmin Boutiques.
What a nice surprise!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Gap Ads Go Behind the Scenes
Gap Ads Go Behind the Scenes
by DAVID MOIN and RACHEL BROWN
Posted MONDAY AUGUST 1, 2011
From WWD ISSUE 08/01/2011
LAUNCH SLIDESHOW 3 images
On Pico Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, not far from where the 10 and 110 freeways intersect in a mass of concrete, the Gap 1969 denim studio was launched in August 2010, in a former cigar factory loft, in the heart of the city’s jeans infrastructure. This week, Gap Inc. begins providing an inside look at the operation — glimpses of the people, processes and products — in a much different type of fall campaign for the retailer.
Working with ad firm Ogilvy & Mather and culture and design Web site Cool Hunting, Gap created 30 short videos, each 20 to 90 seconds long. Some profile key members of the L.A. denim team, including women’s merchant Masako Konishi, men’s merchant Cale Margol and wash specialist Rob Crews. Each reveals a little bit about themselves, like men’s design director Jason Ferro mentioning how his background as a rebel skater, surfer and musician influences his work.
In another video, Crews suggests freezing jeans to rid them of germs and preserve the patina, rather than throwing them in the washer, which drains the indigo dye; others spotlight the ponte knit legging in black and olive, the gummy legging in black and khaki, or give a brief overview of the denim studio.
Gap has a history of using serious celebrity portraits as ads, or dancing models, and being a heavy advertiser on TV. But this season, there’s none of that. While not exactly cinema verité, the new campaign strives to humanize a big corporation by depicting one of its more creative sides and some young talent working in an informal setting.
“It’s quite a shift,” from past campaigns, said Seth Farbman, Gap’s global chief marketing officer. “This is the beginning of a longer-term strategy” that continues for the holiday season and into next year at least, and also continues to feature different operations and people at Gap. Farbman, who is based at Gap’s Global Creative Center in New York, declined to disclose which Gap operation will be highlighted next.
“Increasingly, people want to know the stories behind the products — who’s designing it, where it comes from,” Farbman said. “We recognize that we have to be more open. We had not done enough storytelling about what was new and different at the Gap.”
Farbman noted that the campaign is his first for Gap since joining the company five months ago and that it targets millennials, whose retail allegiances to the Gap in many cases have frayed. The campaign will be more visible in the social media and digital world, than in traditional media. “When you look at how millennials consume information, it is not in a simple, transactional way,” Farbman said.
The videos break this week on Web sites such as Cool Hunting and Refinery29 before blanketing the Internet next week with sponsored content on Refinery29, DailyCandy, FabSugar, Glam, Hulu, Pandora, LookBook, TrendCentral, Rolling Stone and Gap’s Facebook page. The videos will also be shown in the 28 other countries where Gap has stores, aside from the U.S. stores, where campaign images will decorate windows, and shoppers will be able to pull up the videos on their mobile devices.
Print ads are a mix of inserts and spreads in the September issues of Vogue, GQ, Glamour, InStyle, People StyleWatch, Lucky and Rolling Stone, with text written by journalist Ruth Barrett. Larger spreads will appear in Elle, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Nylon, Details, ESPN and Marie Claire. However, the print advertising campaign strays from the “real people” approach with images shot by Cass Bird of “real-ish” people in Gap 1969 pants, as Farbman said, most of whom are cast in street scenes depicting a few locations that these people could be from or seem to reflect, such as Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Portland, Ore., or Nakameguro, Japan
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Influencers
Who are our influencers?
In fashion, our past influencers are clear: Chanel, Vionnet, Dior, Gres, YSL, McQueen-- all are responsible for a distinct shift in perspective on design. In furniture design, Chippendale in the 1700's, Eames in the 20th century and Piet Hein Eek in the 21st century come to mind. In architecture, the innovators of their day included Frank Gehry and Frank Lloyd Wright.
I think people like Madonna, Gwen Stephanie and Lady Gaga are influencers in music, but have a temporary influence as true trend setters. It is in their saturation that makes them less of an influence, as they seem to become mainstream the moment they are copied. In today's society, people still think Gaga is an influencer. I would say that is true a year ago, but today, she is predictible and is so immitated and followed. This makes me believe she has lost her influence to be a true innovator, but simply a leader with a following. She is not unlike any other leader in the world who has a herd of sheep following blindly as they are lost and looking for someone or something on which to hang an identy.... or adopt an identity.
In the media, Mark Zuckerburg would have been an influencer in the world of social media and the way in which social media would be used today. Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue was an influencer in the fashion media, but her power is continually being challenged by new media outlets, such as online blogs and magazine. Tavy Gevinson, the fourteen-year-old blogger truly challenged the old guard of the fashion writers with her influential blog. Hugh Hefner was an influencer in the 50's with the introduction of the first Playboy magazine.
Watching a documentary on Hugh Hefner in the 1950's made me realize something I had never thought about him- he was ahead of his time, he was not "popular," in fact, when he started, he borrowed any amount of money he could and his first issue sold only 50,000 copies. WIthin a year, he tripled that. He was ahead of his time and went against the grain of society; he did not have a following for many, many years and he promoted something that went to against what was the norm in a 1950's society and forever changed the American ideal of women and created an unattainable standard by which many American women measure themselves. Unfortunately, the start of Playboy magazine made for a perpetually-sexualized undercurrent in society that has become validated through the media and by his own controversial lifestyle. Playboy forever changed the ideal of American beauty.
His magazines were not initially all about sex, but they also included politics and controversial sibjects in the magazine. Utilizing the controversial platform of the magazine, he included in those pages his own ideas about controversial issues, like black rights in America, politics involving President Carter, racial bias in stand-up comedy artists in the 60's, etc. In his day, he was an influencer, but today, his lifestyle seems almost obscene or mundane, depending on perspective, but it is no longer innovative, nor are his ideas.
I am not perpetuating Playboy or any kind of pornography. What I am hoping for is that thought-proving change comes from talking about those who really change a mind set or a society's point of view or at least their discussions.
So, who are our influencers today?
INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
BRAHMIN ANYTIME TOTE!
The Red card attached said:
Dear Leslie,
You’ve been selected by Vogue to discover Brahmin, a luxury handbag company known for its timeless, sophisticated styles.
It also goes on to tell me that the Anytime Tote will not be available in stores until May. It will however, be available on April 15 on Brahmin.com and in the Brahmin Boutiques.
What a nice surprise!
Gorgeous!
Monday, April 4, 2011
BRAHMIN ANYTIME TOTE!
The Red card attached said:
Dear Leslie,
You’ve been selected by Vogue to discover Brahmin, a luxury handbag company known for its timeless, sophisticated styles.
It also goes on to tell me that the Anytime Tote will not be available in stores until May. It will however, be available on April 15 on Brahmin.com and in the Brahmin Boutiques.
What a nice surprise!
Friday, February 18, 2011
JOIN US FOR A LIVELY DISCUSSION ABOUT DESIGN
TRENDS - CAREERS - INSIGHT
San Joaquin Delta College's Interior Design Program
is gathering industry professionals from various areas
of the Interior Design field to share their insights and advice with students and the community.
On February 23rd, notables from the field of Interior Design will be converging on Stockton and the entire community is invited to participate. The program is hosting this event to expose its students to some amazing industry professionals and to the realities of the career. The hope is also to share this with the community and anyone interested in pursuing a career in Interior Design.
MEET THE PANEL:
KERRIE KELLY- Kerrie Kelly Design Lab Kerrie Kelly, Proprietress of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab, is an accomplished interior designer, author, instructor and multi-media consultant. An ASID certified interior designer and owner of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab, based in Sacramento, she authored “Home Décor, a Sunset Design Guide” published by Oxmoor House in September 2009. The book is still a defining guide to all styles of home décor. In addition to being a published author, she is a certified aging-in-place specialist (CAPS), a subject matter expert for Pearson Publishing, and the Academic Director for The Art Institute of California, Sacramento. Kerrie’s start in interior design came from early family influences that allowed her to pursue her studies at Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, California. Since then, her portfolio includes experiences with Macy’s, Ralph Lauren, All American Design and Furnishings, Inc. and Del Webb’s Sun City |
KEVIN MANLEY- Foodservice Designer/Sales Consultant Kevin has over 25 years of sales, installation and design in the foodservice industry. He is currently wearing two hats with being employed for eleven years by Yaffee Restaurant Supply in Sacramento and as designer for his own company, KM Design. Kevin has completed projects all over Northern California including Friar Tucks in Nevada City, Bistro 33 at the Mercedes Benz Dealership in Rocklin, Pacheco High School in Los Banos and Maranello’s in Fair Oaks. Some of these projects being design and some contracts for equipment. Always changing health codes, mechanical codes and NSF standards keep Kevin busy to stay on top of his trade. Kevin gives a big thank you to Delta College for teaching him auto-cad design. Kevin just recently designed and installed one of the first Mercedes auto dealerships with a full service restaurant inside the dealership showroom in Rocklin. |
MARIKO PARRIS- LEED Certified Designer Mariko is a space planner and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accredited professional for Durst Interiors in Lodi. Parris received a bachelor's degree from California State University, Sacramento and pursued a certificate in green building and sustainable design with the University of California, Davis. Previously, she worked as a designer for Ambiance Interiors and was co-owner of Parris Tile & Stone. Parris is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the International Interior Design Association. Mariko is currently space planning the move of the city hall departments to the city owned WaMu building. She is also space planning projects at the HSA County building downtown Stockton. |
ZACK ROSSON- Lighting Specialist, Lumens Light and Living Zack, a product of San Joaquin Delta College, studied Interior Design at SJDC and moved to Sacramento to expand his experience in the design industry. After a few experiences, he landed at Lumens Lighting in Sacramento. Through his career, he’s created lighting design for restaurants, hotels, homes and salons. His projects include:The AVE Lounge, Stockton; Wine and Roses, Lodi; Wasabi Sushi: Folsom; Blade Barber and Sugar Salon: Sacramento; Deda Salon at the Sterling Hotel: Sacramento;The Shady Lady Saloon: Sacramento; Christmas and Co: Old town Sacramento; Flowjo Yoga, Davis, just to name a few. There are many many more residential and commercial spaces, including lighting jobs with Kerrie Kelly Design Lab. Kerrie and Zack will be festured in Sacramento Magazine together for the Lighting. He was also featured in her book Home Décor. |
The event will begin at 5 pm with a general forum and Q & A with the panelist. Then breakout sessions will allow attendees to talk with the insiders one-on-one and develop a greater understanding of the career. WHAT: Meet The Industry Insiders in Interior Design WHEN: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 from 5-7 pm WHERE: Danner Hall on the Delta College Campus. COST: The event is free and open to the public. For parking, maps and direction, visit www.deltacollege.edu.