The Fashionistas

THE FASHIONISTAS are pleased to host jewelry design maven Kendra Scott as guest lecturer in the FASHION TALK Lecture Series on December 7th at The Magnolia Theater. In 2002, out of the extra bedroom of her home with only $500, Kendra Scott combined her love for fashion with her creative talents and began her own line of jewelry. Today, the Austin based designs of Kendra Scott Jewelry have found a home in her brand boutiques in Austin and Beverly Hills and can be found at top retailers such as Nordstrom, Henri Bendel and Lord and Taylor. Dallas is now home to the latest brand boutique, which opened its doors Saturday, November 12th and is located in the heart of Uptown, in the chic West Village area, nestled between Taco Diner and Spa Habitat and across from the Magnolia Theater and Bar.

The color-infused Kendra Scott Jewelry line continues to garner the attention top magazines all over the country. Kendra Scott has also formed high profile partnerships with fashion designers Oscar de la Renta and Randolph Duke, who have featured her as the accessories designer or their runway collections.

Kendra Scott necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings all have an air of chic yet carefree style that looks gorgeous for both daytime and evening wear. Each Kendra Scott jewelry piece boasts great attention to design and detail, using color, texture and unique compositions to make a true statement. Each gorgeous Kendra Scott jewelry piece is created using beautiful shapes and often she utilizes colorful semi-precious stones in very distinctive designs. The result is a jewelry line that is both sophisticated and different.

As Kendra Scott Jewelry grows, Kendra herself remains committed to three philosophies: family, fashion and philanthropy. Kendra’s “family first” philosophy has always been the core value for growing the company. The birth of her two sons during the initial stages of her business influenced Kendra in creating a lifestyle that is both flexible and fun. Kendra Scott is the epitome of work hard, play hard. Her passion for beautiful jewelry resonates in every gorgeous piece and in every woman who wears them.

Kendra Scott Jewelry uses captivating color and unique designs to create a look that’s luxurious at an affordable price for every woman and every occasion. Whether on the soccer field or a black tie event, Kendra Scott Jewelry designs offer something for every lifestyle.

What: FASHION TALK with Kendra Scott

When: December 7, 2011 from 5:30pm-8:00pm

5:30pm doors open, 6:00pm lecture, 7:00pm drinks and tour of Kendra Scott Jewelry’s Store

Where: The Magnolia Theater, 3699 Mckinney Ave #100, Dallas

Cost: $10 members | $15 non-members, tickets can be purchased at here

Sponsors and Partners

F|D Luxe, West Village, Magnolia Theater and Bar

By Megan McQuery

THE FASHIONISTAS are pleased to host Laurent Cotta as guest lecturer in the FASHION TALK Lecture Series. Laurent Cotta is an art and fashion historian. His most resent acclaim stems from his work on the “Madame Grès, Fashion Design” exhibition as part of the “Galliera Off-Site” program. Since 2002, Cotta has been responsible for contemporary creations at Galliera, the museum of fashion in Paris, France. Between 2003 and 2011, he has designed an exhibit at the Galleries Lafayette for the 60th birthday of ELLE magazine, mounted the exhibit “Gallierock – Jean-Charles de Castelbajac”, as well as an exhibit for the Grand Trianon Museum and the Bourdelle Museum.

Laurent Cotta has also been regularly lecturing at l’École du Louvre since 2004, and in 2010 was responsible for a series of courses devoted to the history of contemporary fashion. At the same time, he gives lectures on Yves Saint Laurent at the Institut Français de la Mode [French Fashion Institute].

COTTA & YSL

Cotta’s lecture for the FASHION TALK Lecture Series will celebrate 50 years of Yves Saint Laurent and the dichotomy of YSL’s aesthetic: classicism and transgression. Before the end of his career in 2002, Yves Saint-Laurent was certainly the last active couturier to have lived through the glory period of Parisian design in the 1950s and to maintain the same number of design studios and employees as in the hey-day of the ‘50s throughout his entire career. Recognized by Chanel as her heir, taking after a classicism inscribed in the French tradition, he offered an understated fashion which glorified the woman, gave her the assurance that she needed to assert herself.

From the start of his career, he rendered the concept of “Parisian elegance” obsolete, and replaced it by the idea of “seduction” which was more in line with the aspirations of women at the dawn of the 1960s. This form of seduction was all the more disconcerting in that he deliberately conceived of it as poisonous, as witnessed by his 1971 collection, inspired by the 1940s or Catherine Deneuve’s outfits in Belle de jour by Bunuel in 1967. Through his classics – the safari jacket, the tuxedo, see-through clothes – he accompanied women in their emancipation and fashioned a clothes-closet that is contemporary even to this day.

Where: The Janette Kennedy Gallery, South Side on Lamar, 1409 S Lamar Street, Dallas

When: October 24, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00pm

In the Door: $10 THE FASHIONISTAS members | $15 non-members

Partners: This event is organized in collaboration with the Delegation Generale de l’Alliance Française aux USA, Alliance Française de Dallas, & THE FASHIONISTAS.

By Megan McQuery