DFW Buzz: New Dallas Based Brand Flops Their Way into Summer

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well here we are, its time to countdown to pool party season. I’m totally thrilled with this summer, it’s going to be a good one, color blocking, stripes, and neon what can be better?

The summer season also means its time for flip-flops,  Love them or hate them,  the flip-flop to many is as american as that  tiny weenie Bikini, however finding a pair that you can say is chic is task that all summer lovers embark on right about this time.

So much to my fab surprise, I was thrilled to have discovered the Guys over at Hari Mari. This Dallas based company launched this spring is all about summer, in fact their ad campaign is entitle “Summer In The City” and everyone out there knows  I love a good City trend. A Flip  Flop is a Flip Flop  and never has a pair really  proven worthy of ‘Atten-SEAN’ but   those guys  totally did the trick.

The independent Dallas company founded by Jeremy Stewart and Barrett Horton, designed these hue driven flips with comfort in mind, however us in the style world always stick to the look rather that then comfort at times ‘OOUCH’, with Hari Mari launching their Parks Line this season all I have to say is when did flip-flops get so chic.

Color blocking is  a biggie this summer, and The Parks Line by Hari Mari with white beds and   a multicolored range to choose from  for summer are  must haves when  mastering  that block. I myself picked the blue! Never been one for flip-flops but there’s nothing floppy about  these. Continue reading →

Diana Vreeland film screens at DIFF, Director speaks of what’s to come this fall!

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Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Last Tuesday, was the first of two screenings of Diana Vreeland The Eye Has To Travel, which naturally was my center piece screening, if you will, at the 2012 DIFF. Clearly I wasnt the only one who was expressing a certain kind of groupie-ism, as word spread of the film so did the news that first time director, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, was due right here in the city.

Our city indeed moved quickly, centering events around this particular film, professors professed  all info to  fashion students, and just like that, Diana Vreeland The Eye Has To Travel became among the most anticipated films at the  DIFF. I  was sure to snag tickets to the first screening, which was the ideal  intimate setting with fashion enthusiast of old and young and Lisa Immordino Vreeland  watching along with us.

The Film, which was paired with the book published in october, sharing the same name, also  published by Lisa Immordino Vreeland , who to add is the granddaughter-in-law of the Diana Vreeland herself, Talk about fashion history indeed!   The film  brings the pages of the book right to life, in fact i’m speaking literally, First scenes of the film  show  each page of the book , and snap shots of Vreeland’s apartment, which is almost just as famous, being modeled after a garden in hell.

it’s no question who Diana Vreeland was, and perhaps still is to many. I could go on and on about her  legacy, her career, and her fabulous friends but I find watching the film is a lot more pleasurable. The one thing I absolutely loved of the film, is the extraordinary amount of information that at sometimes was  dwarfed by Vreeland’s over the top personality. Clips of interviews with Vreeland were cut, snipped, and pasted back to an almost seamless conversation with Vreeland.  Continue reading →

Dallas International Film Festival Starts Tomorrow, Many Stars and Film Elite expected In The City

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The Dallas International Film Festival

Tomorrow, The Dallas International Film Festival is to host the opening night Gala at the Majestic Theater, Which means its time to go to the movies!

The 2012 Dallas International Film Festival , presented by Boardwalk Auto Group Volkswagen Dealers and Dallas Film Society, is set to bring over 200 titles to Dallas, all having screenings as well as Q&A with directors, producers, and actors from April 12- April 22. Many international film names to mix and mingle with our own Dallas film elite.

With over 200 titles taking part in the DIFF, there’s much to see and take in. Being quite a bit of a film buff myself there some titles I know I have my eye on. A bit cliché to say that there is something for everyone, but with all honesty there is.

For starters, my inner snoop or rather I should say my addiction to information has me head for hills to see Atomic States Of America, an inside look at the myths of nuclear waste right here in our country, screening this Film is saturday at Mockingbird Station’s Angelica Theater. Another Big Title which is one to watch out for is, VITO, a film that depicts the uprising of the Gay Rights movement with first hand accounts. More exciting, the film itself consists of the footage captured by a then 23-year old Vito Russo, who in 1969 was a promising film student that found himself in the middle of history in the making, screenings of VITO, Friday and Saturday at the Magnolia.

As for the Style, you know a film festival taking part in Dallas would not dare leave out us Style-istas, Coming April 17th and 18th, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel. A film which takes from the Book, Published in October by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, gives an inside portrait of the Woman who every fashion teacher will profess as The Empress of Fashion. Some even will dare to say that the fashion industry could be defined by one name, Diana Vreeland, which i would agree. The film I might add is directed by Vreeland ‘s Granddaughter-in-law. Fashion History right here in Dallas is enough to give any fashion enthusiast chills.

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DFW Buzz: Weathered in the Wake

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credit: WFAA

Yesterday was no easy day for anyone in the city.  As many of us rise for the morning to go on with our usual daily  routines its hard to even fathom that words such as Disaster and Devastation  are in bold-faced font, on local and national news papers, and News Sites.

A string of tornadoes  ripped through our city yesterday afternoon. A reported 15 “unconfirmed” tornadoes, memories of   another town stricken with warnings and alerts such as ours  Last year, in Missouri , was enough to know that we were about to embrace for a rough day.

As of now, no reported missing, and no reported deaths, which is a complete miracle in that of its own. As  a blogger who has created a platinum  solely focused on the city that now dominates the headlines, I’m  sadden to know of the massive damage left in the aftermath, in Lancaster, Arlington, Irving, and Forney TX.   Many lives have changed with this new day, a reported 600 homes have been damaged or if that wiped out. Many families, throughout DFW have expressed many thoughts of gratitude knowing there families are together, and are now embracing to rebuild. Continue reading →