indiana, new york, london

I absolutely go crazy when I discover that someone huge in the fashion industry was bred in Indiana. I think immediately of Bill Blass, Eleanor Lambert (the creator of the International Best Dressed List) and Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist). I just discovered the CEO of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts, is also from Indiana. (Love her initials!) The day after she graduated from Ball State University she moved to New York City on a one-way ticket. 30 years later, after developing both her analytical and creative sides in New York, she's living in London  and is now Burberry's CEO.

Even more, AA and Christopher Baily, Burberry's Creative Director, established the Burberry Foundation in 2008, a charitable organization dedicated to helping young people realize their dreams and potential through the power of their creativity. The foundation recognizes that the twenty-first century requires new skills amoung young people who are looking to become successful adults in today's multicultural, diverse global community, and therefore provides educational programs that build skills in language and relationships so that they can be technologically and culturally fluent to navigate difficult decisions and locate trustworthy mentors to open doors to professional careers and meaningful lives.*

*www.burberryplc.com

Oh, to remain grounded enough to excel beyond my wildest dreams and outrageous enough to keep my life focused away from myself.

design palette

I favor classic lines. I grew up on classic movies. Women were celebrated.

My favorite spring 2011 collections are Isaac Mizrahi, Milly and J. Mendel.

BABA

Will be going with the mister to Brooklyn for brunch.

[When times have reached their fulfillment.]

touch of

classic with a twist

glimpses of tom ford spring 2011

100 invited guests. Small cocktail party. Celebrity models. Tom Ford narrated the presentation in the 1950s style of presenting a collection. One photographer, Terry Richardson. Rebellious genius.

[Beyonce skipped the VMAs to model in Tom Ford's show. Smart move.]

tom ford woman

Word has it Tom Ford will give a glimpse of his first signature women’s designs during New York Fashion Week at a cocktail he’s hosting the evening of Sept. 12. It is understood the first full collection — spanning ready-to-wear, shoes, bags and jewelry — will be shown to the trade in January for June delivery. A Ford spokeswoman confirmed “a small cocktail party” but declined to give other details. - WWD

Imagine being shown the inaugural women's collection by Tom Ford at a small cocktail party. Only a sophisticate like him would make an understated choice like that.

month four

Four months old today. And all that we're longing for and called to is emerging like the turns in the road before us. I'm shocked and amazed but shouldn't be at all.  This is what we've been groomed for. The life we're destined to live is being lived out right now as we prepare the ground for harvest.

Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. Genesis 12 - Words from ABM on our wedding day.