At The Indie Craft Experience, Act II

Adolescent Lion

Pink And Grey At The Indie Craft Experience

Indie Craft Experience

A Rainy Afternoon At Paris On Ponce, Act I

Paris On Ponce

In Piedmont Park: A Walk With Comet

Street Scene: McLendon Avenue

At The Indie Craft Experience, Act I

Karla Jean Davis
The ICE Holiday Shopping Spectacular continues today from 11am 'til 6pm at the Georgia Freight Depot in Underground Atlanta.

In Oakland Cemetery: A Winter Coat

On the train yesterday my bicycle sparked a friendly chat with visitors from Chicago and Ontario who were en route to their flights home. Our bout with the polar vortex must have seemed tame to them, but for hours here it rolled up the streets. These Emory students, however, defied the chill in memorable style.

Indie Craft Experience This Weekend

The Indie Craft Experience has a new home this holiday season in the Georgia Freight Depot. Find the vintage and repurposed goodness adjacent to Underground Atlanta at 65 MLK Jr. Drive and make arts patronage your gift to our city.

Autumn Color In Oakland Cemetery

Old School Elegance In Decatur

Audrey Hepburn At René René: Act III

René René

Autumn Color In Decatur: Act II

Audrey Hepburn At René René: Act II

René René

Autumn Color In Decatur: Act I

"The only dress I've ever completely loved" is a souvenir of St. Simon's Island and those cowgirl boots are vintage Abilene from the web. The jewelry she makes herself. Look for a selection of herAppaloosa Designs at Wild Oats & Billy Goats in Decatur.

Audrey Hepburn At René René: Act I

René René

Southwest Atlanta Welcomes The BeltLine

Hundreds gathered yesterday in Adair Park at the Southwest BeltLine Trail gateway for its groundbreaking ceremony. The three mile corridor will connect four schools with four parks and promises more of the transformational magic that the Eastside Trail has wrought in central Atlanta, causing one neighbor to dance with joy. Behind her, the former State Farmers Market awaits redevelopment of its sixteen acres while, across the street, three acres of railbed will become an Urban Farm, all in two years.

Street Scene: Georgia Tech

Congratulations To Oakland Cemetery

The Atlanta Regional Commission announced its 16th annual 'Developments of Excellence' awards last Friday, citing Oakland Cemetery as the Great Place for 2014. Piedmont Park was last year's winner of the prize, which honors places, streets, communities, neighborhoods, civic spaces or parks that contribute to the Atlanta region’s character and provide choices for where and how people work and live. Great Places are enjoyable, safe and desirable and can serve as regional models for future growth.-ARC

MODA Presents Versailles '73

l-r Ramona Saunders, Pat Cleveland and Audrey Smaltz

l-r Smaltz, Deborah Riley Draper, Gail O'Neill and Stephen Burrows

Perhaps you have seen the 2008 film Bottle Shock, which tells the story of how a California chardonnay from Chateau Montelena rocked the French wine establishment in a 1976 blind tasting called The Judgement of Paris. Three years earlier, something similar happened in the world of fashion. The setting was Versailles, where New World designers Bill Blass, Stephen Burrows, Halston, Anne Klein and Oscar de la Renta faced Old World masters Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves St. Laurent and Emanuel Ungaro. An equally stellar crowd had gathered to raise money for restoration of the palace and were treated to a battle royal of the runway. Now that watershed moment is subject of a documentary film by Deborah Riley Draper called Versailles '73, which was screened last week in conjunction with Inspiring Beauty: Fifty Years Of Ebony Fashion Fair, now on tour at MODA. Present for a panel discussion following the film were Deborah Riley Draper, Stephen Burrows, Versailles runway models Pat Cleveland and Ramona Saunders, journalist Gail O’Neill and Ebony Fashion Fair commentator Audrey Smaltz. What a treat it was to meet these game changers and to share some great looks from our Atlanta gathering.