Tag: fashion

In early 2010 Jared and Katherine Petty MacLane set out to take the polo shirt, a standard of American fashion, and transform it with European luxury.

Westport is not just another preppy Connecticut town. A longtime magnet for glitterati from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Paul Newman, it’s an artsy place heavily influenced by nearby New York City. So its style is classic and comfortable like other wealthy New England enclaves, but with artistic and fashionable flair.

Who is this mythical Southern Gentleman we’ve heard so much about?

Since launching her eponymous design firm three years ago, Melanie Turner has twice been ADAC’s Southeast Designer of the Year. We peeked inside the fashionista’s Buckhead closet.

The storybook ruins of Barnsley Gardens’ Italianate mansion in Adairsville are a fitting setting for this fall’s romantic fashions. The season’s runways saw ladylike looks in reimagined shapes, with elegant embellishments and lavish flourishes to give the vintage-inspired silhouettes a contemporary bent.

If the gold crests, cheery colors, and citrus-lacquered doors of Lenox Square’s new C. Wonder seem familiar, it’s no coincidence.

Designer Billy Reid, the epitome of sophisticated Southern style, opened his seventh national and first Atlanta store in Westside’s White Provision building this summer. Raised in Louisiana and currently residing in Florence, Alabama, Reid launched his line in 2004.

Dana Spinola was a pioneer in making boutique shopping affordable in Atlanta. In 2002 the then twenty-seven-year-old left a computer consulting career to turn her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for style into a business plan.

Magazine editors and celebrities, make room for today’s new fashion authority: the blogger. Many successful cyber fashionistas have showcased trends from Los Angeles and New York. But the Atlanta area has its own stylish bloggers, who are right on the pulse of beauty and fashion.

These vibrant fashions keep any wardrobe from becoming drab, and thanks to the annual Living Walls conference, Atlanta’s streets are looking brighter as well.