Something can be said about cavorting in vintage. I wore Julie Wheat’s Vintage Silk Blouse and her Design Sequined Skirt and it upped the ante. I am pretty sure the free spirits that inhabited her fashion finds have left a little of their spirit in it and made me a little more carefree and a little more confident. I went to the Tin Roof with an old friend from college and pretty sure I caught the eye of two bachelors. Needless to say, one was verbose enough to engage me for awhile. That is, until he asked me where my boyfriend was and I panicked and flipped my hair around to say,”He’s right behind me.”
As for fit and function, vintage tops rock! Albeit size is something you should not pay attention because a Large is not a Large. The sequined skirt did not seem to be my typical flair for style, but I was glad to wear it because it really pulled the out fit together and gave the strong color of the blouse an anchor. I’m really excited to cheer on Julie and her clothes full of attitude. I have the hottest leather get-up that really ties in the “Glam Rocks” theme in Marion Square. Be sure to stop by the Style Lounge and meet the Cavortress herself!
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Caroline Millard has some inside scoop about this year’s Charleston Fasion Week. “There’s no calm before the storm” is a pretty bold statement since CFW in its festive spirit kicked off on Friday. Julie Wheat of Cavortress launched her 201o collection with Eye Level Art and the [aloft hotel] in North Charleston.
Charleston City Paper gives there praise by invoking the spirit of Bettie Page.
Here’s a roundup photos after the walk through [aloft] by Sully Sullivan.
If you would like to learn more about Julie Wheat and how she advises aspiring designers to “have the guts to be you”, then Shauna Heathman of Mackenzie Image has the scoop on being Cavortress.
My Charleston Fashion has provided a video from the event and behind the scenes.
So has All Over It. And earlier last week, All Over It put together this preview of Bellina in Cavortress prior to the launch.
Social media has impacted how we gather and view news worldwide, and media outlets continue to struggle with a way to combine social media with traditional journalism to find a model that works. We think our March Social Media Star, Ken Hawkins, has the solution: TheDigitel.
TheDigitel, founded by Ken in 2008, is currently based in Charleston, S.C., but headed to other cities soon. It’s a site that connects readers to news from local media outlets and also produces its own stories, while integrating social media tools like Facebook and Twitter in a helpful way. They’ve also created an innovative ad model integrating real time social media content from their advertisers.
TheDigitel, which recently secured funding for expansion, has its finger on the pulse of news in the 21st Century. We once heard Ken say that citizens will become the gatherers of news and the journalist’s new role will be to provide context. We think he’s right!
Ken wears many hats at TheDigitel.com, acting as Web master, information designer, owner and editor in chief. To keep the site up to date, he spends four or more hours a day on social media sites, monitoring news and events.
For the rest of this article, please visit http://www.stepaheadinc.com/2010/03/1565/.
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Yesterday was my first experience in the co-work environment. It was a much smaller group compared to the door-busting crowd that welcomed the movement to the Lowcountry last week. I’m glad it was not too overwhelming because I became better acquainted with my peers and could embrace exactly where the co-working movement was headed. I left Rehava abuzz with so many new million-dollar ideas in my head and with so much electricity to want to do more.
If you are unfamiliar with the co-working concept, then these principles come to mind:
- collaborative community
- sustaining a local economy
- accessible + efficient
Co-working is the best alternative for freelancers, sole proprietors, creatives, and ingenues to be immersed in a homogenous think tank for mobilization. I would happily contribute to keeping this alive with some of the sharpest minds in the Lowcountry than pay rent to work alone. For Ergonomix, co-working enables me to cultivate ideas in a hotbed of my peers + potentially stakeholders. I am able to sharpen my thought process and bounce it off of a different wavelength.
Yesterday, I joined a podcast led by Sean McCambridge of Chucktown Deals. He hosted a round table with Jared Smith, Mike Close, Kenneth Andrews, Steve deGuzman, Chrys Rynerson, and myself. It has been interesting to see how co-work emerged from BarCampCHS and become something like a weekly CHStweetup for this burgeoning “creative class”. If you’ve never read Who’s Your City? by Richard Florida, run to get it, now! (Not just because he RTed me + Ken Hawkins that one day.)
Here’s how I see it…Not-for-profit co-work v. for-profit incubators reinvests interests back into the community. Many of us feel that providing a home for co-work is expense enough. Rehava has been generous enough to share their workspace with the co-work crowd while the City of North Charleston embraces and prepares for a more static home in Park Circle. This is the ultimate gesture of community, not just for our creative class, but toward a sustainable, and inclusive, business culture. The collaboration with Rehava can only enhance the appeal of the Lowcountry as creatives become attracted to our fair Lowcountry and hope to surge our saturated real estate market. To really appreciate this beyond la vie boheme you should read Richard Florida’s books!
For more insight on how co-work got started and what it means to us, spare us 20 minutes, it has posted to Chucktown Deals:
