Style Profiles
Photo: Jess James Location: Joe Dunton Cameras I recently had the pleasure of meeting Costume Designer Erika Munro, a statuesque beauty with wavy locks and signature shade of red lipstick, for French 75 cocktails at manna, and a few weeks later, a behind the scenes look in the costume department. Set up in the back of Joe Dunton Cameras, Erika’s staff packed up fringed cowboy boots and shoulder padded and sequined remnants from the 80′s culled for the Wilmington-based film Hick starring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz and Juliette Lewis. Munro, a New Yorker in Wilmington for the first time, stayed in an old cottage on Wrightsville Beach...
HALF: Feeding Hunger Through Fashion When I first met Carmin Black at Hallelu’s holiday fashion show last year, I didn’t quite understand how her new business, HALF, functioned but there was no question her passion was intoxicating and her mission, clear: to make the world a better place. Along with her brother, Christian, a graphic designer and member of Wilmington band Rio Bravo, it all began with a humanitarian mission, an interest in fashion and design, $200 seed money and a bag of rice. After being chosen as one of 13 budding entrepreneurs to spend six months on the road...
Style Profile: Charleston Handbag Designer Natasha Madan Natasha at the Charleston Style Swap in April and behind the scenes at a Taashki photo shoot. Meeting handbag designer Natasha Madan and her husband for the first time at Charleston Fashion Week, I couldn’t help but notice how she seemed to radiate with positive energy. It’s only fitting that her handbag line, Taashki, is inspired by this same “glow” from the inside out. Taashki, a spirited handbag collection with a passionate take on fashion and philanthropy, originated as a term of endearment Natasha’s husband Alok started calling her when they first met...
FashionFix Newsletter Template It all started with a shopping trip to Billy Reid, the Southern-bred luxury shop on Charleston’s King Street, where Shannon and I (of James + Dunne Styling) had done some serious shopping for our client, Marty. I joined their email list and one day, in lieu of a sale on their handmade leather shoes, they featured a video. There, among the antique decanters, faded portraits and herringbone trousers in Billy Reid’s New York store, stood Charlie Mars with his guitar. Performing acoustic at a Relix Magazine party, his presence pulled me in – the raw intimacy in...
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