Into it: Valentine’s Fever.

2.9.2011

start  it out RIGHT.

wear your HEART out.

keep it COOL.

eat your HEART out.

and then GIVE it away.

you can purchase E-cards designed by me, and profits will go to The Hope House. click here.

Shop~Make-up Case~Moschino Cheap&Chic~Jonathan Adler Sunglass case

Bloggers Soiree Charity Event.

12.28.2010

The Fashion is Never Bottomless Charity Event for Bottomless Closet NYC presented by Bloggers Soiree was a huge success! Here are some photos from the runway show that I got to be a part of with 17 other Bloggers and 5 emerging Designers. I got to meet some super sweet girls and we were all in love with our dresses designed by Viva Aviva! Not only did we get to dress up and feel beautiful, we got to feel good inside too by supporting a good cause!

photos by Hikeki Aono//Red Rover Style//Arthur Eisenberg

Let’s have a party.

9.26.2010

Flashback to Summer(thats right it is Fall, although I am still hanging on to my Summer wardrobe til the last thread)…. I had a little party on my rooftop in Williamsburg to raise some funds for my next Art Show! It was a fabulous turn out and I was so lucky to have FAIR. Vodka and Grolsch beer sponsor this event!!

…some amazing photos by  the fab photog miss Karen Kristian, this is just a sneak peak, check out more HERE

Here is one of the Cocktails served that evening with Fair. vodka, which by the way is a Fair Trade product, so all you do gooders…Drink for Good!!

AND the sweetest article on me titled “Cutie Patootie Not So Snootie” written by Nia Kiesow, Fashion Editor the Happy Hipster from Red Rover Style.

Lacee Swan isn’t what you expect out of an artsy Brooklyn Betty who paints and designs fashion. For one thing, she’s too darn sweet. There’s no grunge, grit or any of that typical high-nose hipsterness about her – just straight honey. A cutie voice, doll face eyes and a hospitality that’s all too rare in the Williamsburg scene.

It’s the night of her first self-promoting fundraiser event as an artist, and Lacee is standing in the middle of her apartment surrounded by her artwork, which is quirkily arranged along the walls with hot pink tape. She’s awash with bright colors, cuteness, and frivolity – all features that blare out from her recent artwork and designs. She was looking like a piece of art herself in a vintage sweetheart romper of vivid hues, ebony Louis Vuitton flats, and wonderfully oversized spectacles with black rims. Her hair has that summer humidity-friendly look, soft curls pinned with a little black hairpiece she fashioned herself. A dash of color swiped over her lips is the only shade of pink you’d expect her to wear: light bubblegum. The night is still fairly young, and only a dozen guests roam her place or the rooftop (where most of the action is anyway) thus far, forcing her to man the apartment to meet and greet the cool kids who decide that later is greater.

Lacee gives me a smile of recognition, and we immediately launch into conversation about how she uses watercolors as her medium, “girliness” as her inspiration, and the recent “going green” craze she intends to stick with. When she couldn’t get any more adorable, she tells me that she has a bicycle and promotes its clean service to the environment as much as she can. For Lacee, eco is the way to go.

Rolling her eyes, she says, “I go back home to North Dakota and see everyone using Styrofoam cups. I just want to shake my head and shout NO!”

She’s also taken up DJing with friend and street-style blogger, Susan “Susie G” Nurit. When asked which type of music she’d spin at any party, she instantly throws out names like Joy Division and New Order (proudly exhibiting her hipster points with true love for the tunes). However, it’s French Pop that permeates all that she does – not only providing inspiration to her artwork, but also the tunes she can spin on a turntable to dance the night away with.

At the moment, fashion and art are Lacee’s main focus. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she has had loads of experience in production and technical design. One day, she became fed up with the entire industry and fueled with frustration.  She promptly took a 2-year break from the whole industry to collect thoughts and figure herself out. Now, she’s back, and she’s armed with her talents and determination to break into the business again.

“A lot of people have gone down this road only to get killed. I’m gonna go and get shot, but you gotta do what you love,” she says with a shrug.

Her artwork features notorious characters of the fashion world, like style bloggers Garance Doré and Susie Bubble, with a focus on the girlish side of the industry. Her model series sketches include the likes of Lara Stone, Alexa Chung, Dree Hemingway, Daisy Lowe, Karlie Kloss, and Ranya Mordanova; the drawings have also been translated to tee-shirts which go for $37.00 a pop.

Her next project?

“Watercolor scarves,” she answers with a little nod and smile. Oh Lacee, you’re just too darn cute!

“Nia—you are too cute!!” here is a photo of Nia + me.

all photos from Red Rover Style