The Spotlight, Warren TV

I was the guest on Warren TV's "The Spotlight" yesterday. It was so nice of them to ask me to be on the show! We did a mini runway show, featuring 6 looks. Check it out here!

Bravo! Bravo! Promotional Video!

Styleline Magazine feature + Etsy shop up and running

Check out pages 34-35 and 105-106 of this month's Styleline Magazine!!!

I am the featured designer for June. :) I'm so happy with how the article and photos turned out. Thanks so much Hoda Salameh and Daniel Lippitt, and also thanks to the editor Karen Buscemi. In addition to the article on pages 34-35, they also covered my fashion show on March 20th. So great. I <3 you Styleline!!!

I have also launched my Etsy shop. I will be putting up last year's marked down items all week, and the Fall 2010 Collection should be up by the end of next week.

May updates, still ticking?

I have had so much going on lately, I feel like the past few months have been a massive blur!

1. I was chosen to be one of 6 featured "top michigan designers" for the Bravo! Bravo! benefit for the Detroit Opera House. The event is on June 4th, and I designed a new dress which will be auctioned off that night. Below are some promotional photos taken by the lovely and talented Iryna Zhygalkina.





cool photos, but the one in the green chair makes me think the caption should read
"Dr. Kelly Tinsley, Alternative Psychologist, PHD." ;)

There is also apparently going to be a commercial for this event featuring myself and the other 5 designers, who are Wound Menswear, William Malcolm, Joe Faris, and Femilia Couture. We took some footage for it last week and I'm excited to see how it turned out.

Speaking of videos, I'm also going to be on television AND the internet! I'm going up to Warren City TV studios next Thursday to be a guest on "The Spotlight", which will feature an interview with me and a small fashion show featuring 6 of my looks from the Fall Collection. Woo! It will run on air for 2 weeks and then be up eternally on facebook and youtube.

I finished one of the five bridesmaids dresses I need to have finished by the 3rd of October. It was way more work than I thought it would be, mostly because I'm an insane perfectionist when it comes to my work - I just hope for my sanity the other 4 go faster and smoother.

Just two more weeks until the June issue of Styleline Magazine comes out - I'm the featured designer, and can't wait to see how the article turned out. Stop by your local Barnes and Noble or Borders Books to check it out.

Sketches for my Bridesmaids Line

Here are the 8 rough sketches of the dresses I have designed for my bridesmaids line. 5 of them will be "walking down the runway" in my own wedding this October! :) They can be made in any colors or fabric and with or without a tulle trimmed lining, which for my wedding will peek out of the skirt about 4 inches. I'm using a rich black lightweight silk satin for the dresses, with a deep gold oversized bow belt, with gold metallic tulle.

April Happenings.

I have been really busy, its insane. Last Sunday I did a photoshoot for Styleline Magazine! I am their featured designer for the upcoming June issue. I am really lucky to have such amazing girls on my team. Johnnell, Kelly Jean, and Lauren were three girls who modeled in my show. When I was told I got to pick three of my designs to be photographed for the magazine, these gorgeous dames were my first choice. They all just really embody the spirit I try and portray in my clothing (as you can see below). Not to mention they are all so beautiful inside, as well as out. Girls like that are few and far between. I was so lucky that they were all available! And I couldn't have done it without my amazing hair stylist, Alisha Nichole, and the make up artist Mandi Nixx. Both girls did the runway show in March, and I'm so in love with their styles. I was really really lucky to have them come back again for this shoot. Love you guys!!











This same day, much later on, I was also involved in the Shei Magazine 10 year anniversary fashion show, Shei X. I donated 23 pieces from both my current collection and my past designs. Other designers involved were Gemela Designs (who did the gorgeous jewelry), Wound Menswear and Femilia Couture. Here are a few of the shots! Great job Shei, and thanks for thinking of me to be in your show.

Shei X Fashion show this Sunday!

A bunch of my older designs as well as pieces from the new collection will be featured this Sunday at the Shei X 10 year Anniversary Fashion show in the Michigan Ballroom in Ann Arbor! Come check it out. Below is the facebook event with all the info. I'm really excited to be a part of this!

Shei X 10 year anniversary fashion show!

new photos from the show

I have a ton of new pics from the show up on my facebook fan page, so check em out! Below are a few of my favorites, courtesy of Evelyn Miska. I think I managed to post one photo of every look. Whew, 21!

the launch of my fall 2010 collection.

Saturday night was epic. Everything went better than I could have ever imagined. Tons of pictures are up on my facebook fan page and we will have video up soon too, but there are a few teasers down below.

I need to thank first, my wonderful fiance Martin, who not only BUILT me a runway, but also made more time in his own life to do all the things I couldn't do because I had to dedicate the last 5 months of my life to this and only this. He also did an amazing job flyering, talking me up, and networking. None of this would have happened with out him. I also owe the success of this event to the struggle guys who throw recession (Stos, Mathew, Jon, Frankie, Aaron, Chris, Bryan) for not only letting me take over their venue completely, but also helping with promotion, setting up lights, making a hologram of my name to shine on the curtain(!!!)...thank you Mathew for that!! and just overall being really supportive. And of course all the lovely models and volunteers.

Without someone to look at them, wear them and make them come to life, clothes are just pieces of fabric sewn together. These models, many of whom were my friends, and some I'd only met when they modeled for me - were all just the most spirited, encouraging, beautiful individuals, inside and out. My Volunteers, Andrea..Sadie...Nicole... I would have never gotten through those quick changes without you there!! Mandi Nixx, my make up girl, was fast, and completely amazing. She created the exact make up look I had in my head. I heard she even works on the set of Burn Notice - how cool is that? Had I known, maybe I would have sent some head trauma down the runway. Maybe next time, for sure. (Bloody spring!) Alisha Fraser, did my hair - she was also just phenomenal. She did a mix of vintage pin up with rocker mohawk. It was absolutely perfect. And last but not least, my lovely parents - my sister allison and her husband dave...and all the wonderful friends I have who came out to support me! It was really overwhelming, really.

All in all, it was truly the best night of my life. The room was packed, the lights were flashing, everything went wonderful.



































Credit to Evelyn Miska on the above photos.












Hopefully I will have some full body shots of all the looks up soon. This collection will be available for pre-order in late June!