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TALKING ART

this is a bit out of chronological order but we shall just call it a “flashback” since it was Aug 22nd when I went out to dinner and art gallery hopping with some friends. documented mine and Elizabeth’s outfits along with a few snaps around the galleries in the West Side area and Poncey Highlands.

newest accessory: THE UMBRELLA.
always raining so why not have a cute one, this one is via Target!

Free People top and necklace, LOFT pants, RagORama boots and purse (vintage), Target umbrella, BCBG bracelet

American Apparel maxi, thrifted vest, TOMS+Serpentine edges

after dining at Ormsby’s we headed to Kai Lin gallery to pop in and say hi to Jonny “Double Wolf” Warren and other artists hanging out drinking and doodling.

(above) Jonny Warren + his tools

Sam Parker + Molly chatting and doodling
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after Kai Lin we went to BEEP BEEP to view my roommate Chelsea Raflo’s exhibit which was showing from the beginning of August till ~~now~~ (show is about to come down). her and Mike Germon collaborated on a mixed show of some independent pieces along with a joint-effort mural in the back.

cut out stills from one of her stop motion videos

really need to watch her create each frame, one by one, and then to see it all come together and MOVE inside a video box she crafted by hand as well-so proud!

SPACE//AGE

recognize the tiny person above wearing the ASOS Alice in Wonderland style dress? IT’S ELIZABETH from the above pics (with a lot more hair…this was pre-pixie cut obv..)! months ago, Chelsea and Eliz did a shoot together and Chelsea cut out some frames and used the stills of Eliz for one of the videos and then reused them in the dual effort collage, hoping we get to keep some of these around the house after the show comes down!

don’t know about you all but I’m glad my labor day weekend was chill. I desperately needed to catch up on some house stuff, freelance stuff and LIFE stuff.
good luck with going back to work tomorrow!
-F L A S H Y-

SEERSUCKER SOCIAL

this year marked the 4th Annual Seersucker Social and my second year in a row in attendance for the fancy ride through Atlanta’s hilly streets! dressed in our finest Southern duds, bike baskets loaded with blankets, food and drinks we peddled, waved to cars and jammed to swing jazz for about 7 miles before setting up a picnic area in the Historic Oakland Cemetery!
take a look into one of my favorite events-

packed and ready to RIDE!
check out Cole’s super nifty ‘picnic table’ on-the-go that you simply pressed into the ground, came in handy for all of our fancy glasses!

Kensie dress, Banana Republic (mens) fedora, Clothing Warehouse sunnies, Superga tennies
ps: i wore bike shorts don’t you worry!

Tannis was the youngest of riders and a really rad 6th grader!

Kyle helped host the event while keeping us laughing during the ride and taking action shots! caught him assisting Cole with getting his sprinkle print bowtie straightened out for my photo :P

meet Kwanza Hall a city councilman representing District 2, we met while I was working at Fastsigns and helped him print up some campaign signs many years ago. he came along for the Social riding his brightly colored fixed gear and rode the whole time wearing a blazer in 90 degree Southern heat! I asked “how in the world are you still riding with that on?!?!” he said “I’m just keeping it cool” per usual might I say, he’s changed the way I think of politicians!

(right side photos are father and son!)

meet Cameron Adams, a fellow blogger and photographer. we’ve been buds for a while now and have collaborated on photos and blog posts. check out his street style on http://atlantastreetfashion.blogspot.com/

a serving accessory that goes with that snazzy picnic table!

this couple met at the first seersucker social four years ago and this year Erica was surprised with a proposal! it was so awesome to witness!

more Southern gentlemen

Steve & John

Tim Ho pre-ride // Kwanza Hall post-ride

Junks & Kemeza

hanging with the couple awarded with “best dressed couple” superlative
Joanna’s mom MADE her romper and Cole’s matching sprinkles bowtie-too cute and crafty!

after we packed up our picnics we headed to Grant Park to hang at Junks and Kemeza’s cute lil duplex where they had these TALL beautiful wild flowers. great porch sitting and sipping times!

beautiful light captured by my man!

this guy makes my heart happy

join us next year!
special thanks to the folks that keep this event going and getting us safely around the busy streets of ATL!!!!!
-flashy

OPERATION PROM

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of giving back to my community via the Operation PROM X Borrowed by Design dress drive in Buckhead. I brought along an embellished black Jessica McClintock dress from my senior year prom from back in 2004! The drive raised 73 dresses that will be donated to less fortunate girls around Georgia who, without the help of Operation PROM, wouldn’t be able to attend their formal dances. Here’s a short recap of the event in the Atlanta Tech Village-

I’m wearing a Banana Republic dress, purse by Zatchels, UO necklace, BCBG bracelet, and suede booties via Rag O Rama

Made with love by the Borrowed by Designs ladies

Each dress worn by the pageant winning models were later donated to the dress drive. Too cool that a high school girl will be able to wear a dress that was worn and WON in a pageant to her formal dance!!

Karen is the Atlanta Operation PROM director, she is wearing a vintage dress from her friends vintage shop. We chatted about our love for all things thrifted and Instagram, nice meeting you Karen!

Meet LaTisha of Blushing Black, my newest blogger gal pal, isn’t her peplum skirt fabulous?!

Knowing that I helped a high school girl attend one of her formal dances wearing something I wore and enjoyed when I was in high school means a lot! Thanks to Operation PROM and Borrowed by Design for allowing us to reach out to our community!

-Flashy

ATL Streets

in this month’s issue of Jezebel I have photos featured in both the Street Style section and Best-Dressed ATL!!!! here’s a snap shot from the digital copy that you can view here.

loving the very-on-trend crop tops, the zig zag pants and turban and the dude rocking some white denim-go you!

here’s my little contributor’s blurb, the question for this month was “what is your idea of a ‘perfect date’ around Atlanta?” I described mine and Dustin’s second date. after tossing around the frisbee we wanted to get more competitive and so we set up a frisbee golf course (placed 3 different objects in different areas that you had to throw and get closest to, while tallying up tosses) lucky for our competitive personalities we tied each time! sweet memory that I think is perfect :D

RED WHITE & FLAMMABLE

my photographer friend Betsy and I decided we should revisit the stomping grounds where we met and do a little photo sesh in Grant Park. we added some sparklers left over from the 4th of July and some oldie but goodie vintage pieces from my wardrobe, here’s set one of three!