Mayor Kasim Reed announces city’s second annual Fashion’s Night Out

On Monday morning, Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed took time out from negotiating the region's looming transportation infrastructure plan to announce the city's second annual Fashion's Night Out event. "I want you all to know this must be important," Reed told a packed press conference at the W Buckhead hotel. "Because right now, I'm in the middle of negotiating a $6.5 billion transportation deal!" The city's fashionistas gave Reed a hearty round of applause (under state law, the ambitious plan has to be voted on Monday afternoon).

Crown & Caliber offers an eBay alternative for luxury watch re-sales

Out of a nondescript Buckhead office, Hamilton Powell, a fourth-generation Atlantan, consigns some of the world’s finest watches: Rolexes, vintage Glashüttes, Patek Philippes.
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What a pair! Complementing chic outfits with vintage furniture at Brick + Mortar

Fashion and furniture combine to create a beautiful romance. At least that’s the story at Brick + Mortar, the vintage and antique furnishings shop at Westside Provisions District. Local fashion designer Megan Huntz teams up with Brick + Mortar founder David Kowalski to match three garments with their fine furniture companions.

Jeffrey Fashion Cares celebrates 20 with new venue, goats in couture

As Jeffrey Fashion Cares kicked off its 20th fundraiser and runway show Monday night, the Susan G. Komen of Greater Atlanta and the Atlanta AIDS Fund benefit had a sleek new venue, the John Portman-designed American Cancer Society center downtown and a bright young guest designer to celebrate.

Inside Zac Brown’s Smyrna man cave-turned-recording studio

Zac Brown’s ranch house played a cameo role in his music video for “Highway 20 Ride,” but these days, the Smyrna abode functions as a recording studio for his label Southern Ground Artists.

February market minis: Phipps and Lenox personal shoppers, Georgia designers show at New York Fashion Week, and more

Phipps Plaza and Lenox Square now offer personal shoppers. After a complimentary consultation, it’s $75 an hour for an escorted shopping tour—or for them to just shop for you.

Finally! Buckhead Atlanta shops announced

For years, talk of fancy shops at Peachtree and Roswell roads in Buckhead has buzzed and abated as the cranes creaked on and off. Finally, as the mixed-use Buckhead Atlanta development fills the longtime hole in the ground, the chatter comes to fruition.

Designer Mychael Knight on Project Runway . . . Again!

We all remember Mychael Knight. The baby-faced Atlanta designer who stole our hearts on season three of Project Runway back in 2006, when he won fan favorite but came in fourth overall . . . and again in 2009 on Project Runway All-Stars, which Daniel Vosovic won. But could the third time be the charm?

For one night only, reliving Rich’s Fashionata

Of his legendary style sense, Rich’s fashion director Sol Kent once wryly observed to Atlanta Constitution columnist Celestine Sibley, “There’s nothing so unchic as a woman who looks too new.” Kent’s genius at merging the new with the traditional and his eye for discovering future classics will be on dazzling display at tonight’s tribute to his career, “Be Divine: A Tribute to Fashionata” at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Midtown. The evening benefiting the Breman also serves as a social set finale for the museum’s six month-long “Return to Rich’s: The Story Behind the Store” retrospective set to close on May 27.

Now open: Warby Parker, Moncler, and the Collective

Warby Parker, the affordable-hip eyewear brand, opened at Buckhead Atlanta on Sunday, as did Moncler. And across town at Krog Street Market, the first retail store, Collective, also opened.

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