Just Posin'

I just returned from Interiors08, the ASID Conference on Design, held right in my backyard of New Orleans, LA. As a board member of the host chapter, we were encouraged to attend and help portray the sense of hospitality that is Southern Louisiana. That was all fine and well with the one exception of the Second Line Parade. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_line) With no explanation offered to the attendees from all over the U.S., the members of our chapter who so wholeheartedly participated in this display of culture looked merely like a bunch of lushes who cannot handle their alcohol...in a city and at a convention where the liquor was free flowing!

That's not my point, just merely an aside.

As a twentysomething interior designer I am allowed a few liberties. As a member of the art culture I am allowed even more. I chose to exercise these within my wardrobe. At gatherings of designers you can see every range of the spectrum, from the frumpy--how do they get clients--to the extravagant--I'm talking Swarovski crystalled eyewear... In a world where bubble dresses and black tights may be considered wayyyy tooooo out there for a normal Saturday night, in the land of Designers, I was complimented on my outfit before I was fully out of my car! Dress the part, I say. Each day a new dress, pair of tights, and scrunchy boots. Only this time I left my eyewear at home: http://eyeglasses.go-optic.com/enlarge.asp?id=18758&cat=DFRAMES

I think the conference photographer may have had a crush on me. Seemingly everywhere I was, he was there, snapping away. Or maybe it was to document the outfit! We'll see which one's make the conference brochure for next year!