:: THE FASHIONISTAS - MARCH 07 ::

Issue Five: 2007

HEIDI'S WORLD

Hi Fashionistas,
It's a well know fact that the only beverages I consume are champagne and water, which explains my youthful appearance and charming disposition. Due to recent developments, however, I may have to add martini to my list.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

WELCOME NEW FASHIONISTAS

Please welcome Lysa Rohan, Eduar Lamprea, Kelly Pruitt, Sheryl Duncan, Matthew Simon, Natalie McGuire, Juanita Couch, Judy Ninman, Alexis Versace, Richard Segui, Mary Gill, Tara Oliver, Rosanna Nardizzi and Rebecca Masinter.

FASHIONISTAS 2

Our most adorable group continues to grow. We welcome Kasie Smith and Audre Miller from the Art Institute of Dallas, Alexi Norton from Highland Park Middle School, Tatiana Thomas from Bishop Lynch and Liz Sawyers, Amanda Taylor from SMU, and Kaitlin Chad from Highland Park High School.

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS

For those of you who received a membership renewal form in the mail recently, please don't forget to send it in. Your membership money plays an important role in our organization.

Everyone has heard of GREY GOOSE and everyone knows it's a staple for all martini lovers. What everyone does not know, until this minute, is that GREY GOOSE is now the spirit sponsor for The Fashionistas. They are also making a donation to our Fashionistas Building Fund, the proceeds of which will go towards the expansion of Fashion on Main. Now that we have our own Lancôme lipstick line, Courtney Winter, Marketing Manager and Lanay Bielert, District Manager for Bacardi USA, thought it would be fun to have our own martini. They came up with the idea to call it the "Fashiontini" and make with the new super premium pear-flavored vodka by GREY GOOSE called La Poire. We are getting a few of Dallas's most well-know bartenders to submit their version and then The Fashionistas Board of Directors will choose the winner. I like to work our board really hard. You can expect to be served "Fashiontinis" at all of our events. Speaking of lipstick, I am really looking forward to our party for the Lancôme/Fashionistas Lip Design Collection. We have already received tons of press on the event in D Magazine and F!D Luxe. At the party, be sure to introduce yourself to Vanessa Dabich, Director of Public Relations for Lancôme, and Artistic Director, Ross Burton. Vanessa has been a dream to work with and Ross is one of the best makeup artists in the world. I had the pleasure of having him do my makeup on his last visit to Dallas. He was in town for a few days before he dashed off to the Sundance Film Festival to do Winona Ryder, Kate Beckinsale and Sienna Miller's makeup.		I just got some scoop from my friends at Lancôme. Make sure to look for the April issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Lancôme partnered with the darling designers of Proenza Schouler to create a one of a kind dress inspired by the hypnotizing Lancôme fragrance Hypnose. You can image how impossible it is to get a one-of-a-kind dress made by these immensely popular designers, but it could be yours. The dress will be auctioned off to benefit Save the Children. Be on the look out in the article for an exclusive new web site designed just for the dress auction and a super cute video featuring the designers and Lancôme spokesmodel Daria Werbowy. I love Lancôme because they do so much for charity. Well, we are going to be very busy this spring. I look forward to seeing you at our parties. Stay Fabulous,

Heidi Dillon & Lancome Artistic Director Ross Burton

UPCOMING EVENTS

Lancôme/Fashionistas Color Design Lip Collection Launch Party

Last November I received a call from Vanessa Dabich, Lancôme’s PR Director, saying that she had read about our organization in D Fashion, loved what we were doing and wanted to play a part in raising funds to expand Fashion on Main. Vanessa and her colleagues at Lancôme came up with the idea to do a Fashionistas inspired lip collection and give us a percentage of the proceeds. Over the past few months we have had a great time working together and have come up with our very own Lancôme/Fashionistas Color Design Lip Collection, which we will launch on Tuesday, March 6 from 6-8 at the Lancôme Boutique at NorthPark. Naturally D Magazine is the media sponsor and our new friends at GREY GOOSE are providing the ingredients for martinis made with their yummy La Poire vodka. Tuesday, March 6, 6-8 pm at the Lancôme Boutique at NorthPark. Please rsvp to ewohlwed@lancome-usa.com, 212-984-4702.

Screening of the Vogue film Seamless at AMC 15 NorthPark
By now you have all heard of Fashion at the Park, which runs from March 7-10 at NorthPark Center. What you may not have heard is that The Fashionistas are the beneficiary of the screening of the Vogue film Seamless that is sponsored by Vogue and Barney's. The film is about the selection process of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award and the designer who won the award; Doo Ri Chung will be at the screening along with Barney's Simon Doonan for a question and answer period after the film. The screening is on Thursday, March 8 at 6:30 pm and the ticket price is $25. You can purchase your ticket at www.northparkcenter.com.

Allegra Hicks Trunk Show
Our board Member, web site designer and logo designer Ricardo Fernandez does it again. He has arranged for Allegra Hicks to do a trunk show of her clothing and home accessories at my house on March 22-23. Allegra is very famous throughout Europe and is opening a shop on Madison Avenue this month. She has agreed to donate 10% of the proceeds to The Fashionistas. Invitations will be in the mail in a couple of weeks.

Hamish Bowles Lecture and Party
You will have the opportunity to hear Hamish Bowles, Vogue’s European Editor-at-Large and Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Living, give a lecture entitled The Fashion Connoisseur at the Meadow's Museum on May 10 at 5:30. The lecture is free, but seating is limited to 111 and is on a first-come, first-served basis. After the lecture there will be a fabulous Fashionista party for Hamish at the courtyard at Stanley Korshak. Cymbidium, Paper City, GREY GOOSE and Stanley Korshak are the sponsors. Tickets will be $100 each. Invitations will go out the end of April.

David Rodriguez Trunk Show
Our favorite fashion designer, David Rodriguez, is coming back for a trunk show of his fall, 2007 collection. Nancy Klompus has reserved a room at the Melrose for the two-day event - May 17-18. Amanda Sterett will be there showing her jewelry collection. Of course they both generously donate a percentage of the proceeds to The Fashionistas.

PAST EVENTS

Dallas Auction Gallery

Kathy and Scott Shufford, owners of Dallas Auction Gallery, invited us over to preview the estate from the late Montine Wisdom. There were some beautiful pieces by Chanel, Gallanos and Nina Ricci along with some to-die-for sables and minks. I ended up with a great looking mink stole and some baubles. Modern Luxury was there with champagne and martinis. Dallas Auction Gallery plans to do more fashion auctions, so I'll keep you posted. www.dallasauctiongallery.com

Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection Opening Parties

Myra Walker has been planning the Balenciaga exhibition that opened to the public on February 4th at the Meadows Museum for five years, and I must say, the show took my breath away. If you missed the opening, you still have until May 27 to see the show. My suggestion to you is to take a few of your friends to see the show and then have lunch at The Gates restaurant (214-768-3928). You'll have to book ahead because the show is attracting so many visitors that The Gates is constantly full.

There were two parties, both sponsored by Modern Luxury. The first party was for high-level members of the Meadows Museum and The Fashionistas, the board of directors for both organizations, Modern Luxury VIP's and media. I say this because some people felt bad they didn't get invited to this one. Sorry. The party the following night attracted over 800 including Mercedes Bass who declared the show "ravishing". Both evenings were great fun and everyone was gaga over the show.

Guillaume Cothiellas, Robyn Wise & Blake Cleavenger at Balenciaga

Myra Walker, Lawrence Marcus, Pamela Golbin & Maggie Eckardt

Balenciaga Symposium

I am the type who could go to school forever, so that's why the all day symposium entitled Balenciaga and the Transformation of 20th- Century Fashion was heaven for me. The speakers were Pamela Golbin, Curator of 20th-Century Fashion, Musee de la Mode et du Textile, Musee du Louvre, Maggie Eckardt, Former Balenciaga Model (The Fashionistas sponsored her visit), Jean Druesedow, Director, Kent State University Museum, Harold Koda, Curator-in-Charge, The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of course Myra Walker, Curator and Director, the Texas Fashion Collection. A DVD is coming out for those of you who missed it.

OUR MISSION
The Fashionistas, Inc.'s mission is to support the Texas Fashion Collection, which is part of the School of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas at Denton, by raising funds for the expansion of Fashion on Main, exhibitions, acquisitions and educational programs.

FABULOUS FASHIONISTAS

Tina Craig - BagSnob		Tina Craig - the BagSnob The London Daily Mail said that "the BagSnob can make or break a bag and the brand behind it". That's a lot of power for a girl who started her company with a $20 investment a year and a half ago. Our fabulous Fashionista, Tina Craig was born in Taiwan, grew up in DC and moved to California to attend the University of Southern California. After running her own licensing company, she got a gig as a VJ for MTV Asia, which allowed to to travel around the world extensively for work and pleasure.
Eventually her nesting instincts took hold and she married developer David Craig and settled down in Dallas. To pass the time of day in the big D, Tina, a lover of fine baubles, launched a line of handmade jewelry, which was carried at Nordstrom’s and several boutiques in L.A. I met Tina at The Fashionistas kick-off party at Cru restaurant two years ago. She had just had her baby boy and was in the process of moving out to her husband's development, Craig Ranch, in McKinney. Being more of a city girl, the thought of moving out the "burbs" was a bit frightening. Our Tina is clever, though, and quickly figured out a way to make money, indulge in her life-long passion for handbags and live a rich and fulfilling life in her new environment. Her best friend Kelly was in a similar situation in Cambridge MA. Together they came up with the idea of BagSnob and, for a $20 registration fee, launched what is now considered to be the top bag blog in the world. Within 10 months Tina and Kelly were earning a five-figure income each month -that's with no overhead. They do everything themselves from uploading photos, researching, critiquing, writing entries and maintaining the site. Over 10,000 people per day click onto their site to learn about treads get advice on bags and hear celebrity dish. Vogue editors have told them that they do not make a bag purchase without reading BagSnob first! The BagSnob has been featured in London Times, New York Sun, WWD, UK Vogue, French Vogue, F!D Luxe, Boston Herald, and CBS Evening News. Tina and Kelly have recently launched, JewelSnob, CoutureSnob, and BeautySnob. www.BagSnob.com


	Calender- Upcoming Events

	Balenciaga and His Legacy continues at the Meadows Museum through May 27. March 6, 6-8 Lancôme/Fashionista Color Design Lip Collection Launch Party, Lancôme Boutique at NorthPark. Co-hosted by D Magazine and GREY GOOSE. Please RSVP to ewohlwed@lancome-usa.com or 212-984-4703.

	March 8, 6:30 *Seamless* screening at AMC NorthPark 15. Sponsored by Vogue and Barneys. Ticket price $25. Meet CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner Doo-Ri and Barney's Simon Doonan. Purchase tickets at www.northparkcenter.com.

	March 22-23 Allegra Hicks trunk show at 3822 Turtle Creek Drive. Look for your invitation in the mail soon. www.allegrahicks.com

	May 10, 5:30 Hamish Bowles, Vogue's European Editor-at-Large, speaks at the Meadow's Museum. The lecture is free; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 111 people. Cocktail reception hosted by Paper City, Stanley Korshak, GREY GOOSE, and Cymbidium to follow. Time of reception TBD. Ticket price $100.

	May 17 &18 David Rodriguez/Amanda Sterett Trunk Show. See David's fall 2007 collection and Amanda's fab jewelry collection at the Melrose.

	September 20 Michael Faircloth exhibition at Fashion on Main