NuLu

Hope all is well. The semester is coming to a end and if you’re going to be in Louisville this summer this post might interest you. I went to an event called trolly hop a couple weekends ago and couldn’t believe how much fun I had. The First Friday Trolley Hop is an art show, tourist attraction, street party and celebration of downtown Louisville that brings new visitors and new life to the Main and Market streets. The Trolley Hop takes place on the first Friday of each month from 5-11pm, rain or shine. Most of the galleries close around 9 pm but the restaurants, clubs, and shops stay open later and the trolleys runs to about 11 pm. I went with a friend who was looking for art and ended up seeing a lot of old friends, cool art, free wine tastings, took funny photos, caught live music and had free food. This event takes place in a new part of town called “NuLu”. The East Market District, also referred to as NuLu, is now best known for its art galleries, specialty stores, antique shops and a growing number of local, upscale restaurants. The term “NuLu” is a portmanteau meaning “New Louisville”. As home to two LEED® certified commercial buildings, many historic restoration projects, as well as several restaurants offering organic and locally sourced ingredients, NuLu has emerged with a culture of sustainability. Visit http://www.eastmarketdistrict.com for more information. I hope this interests you and you go explore the “Nu” part of the city. Peace. ✌

www.eastmarketdistrict.com

Collegiate 100 6th Annual Pre Derby Gala

Hello beautiful people! Hope your week is going well, and you had a great weekend. This week I’m going to talk about my RSO, Collegiate 100, 6th annual Pre Derby Gala. This year the event is taking place at the PNC Club in Papa Johns Stadium at 8pm. It’s only one week left of classes, so I’m sure this Gala will be filled with energetic people. Collegiate 100 has brought exquisite and over the top Galas to the Univeristy of Louisville campus for the past six years. Collegiate 100 has had Frankie Beverly and maze, 112, J. Holiday to name a few performers in the past. I’m really excited this year because I’m ahead of the Gala committee and been planning this event for over two months. I think everything will fall in place and will be one of the most successful Galas we ever had. Also at our Pre Derby Gala we announce the next Miss Collegiate and reward her with a crown, sash, bouquet of roses, and a scholarship of $300. Miss Collegiate will serve the next school year and help out with events, community service, programming and more. If your interested in attending our Gala this year, tickets are only ten dollars and we’ll be in the SAC all week selling them. It will definitely be a night to remember!

My Divine Family Spring 2012 Preview Look Book!

Look Book provided by D.M.D’ Agency. MDF 2012 Spring Preview. Vintage Clothes. Fashion. Look Book.

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Special Thanks to our Beautiful models Mariah Powers & D’Ante Tinson, Amazing Photoghaper Leilani Hunter, Ella Photography, Mariah’s heels provided by Loud!, and My Divine Family for letting D.M.D’ create this project for them. Be on the look out for MDF apparel in stores near you!

Fashion Shoot

Hello Everyone, I hope you all had an excellent and exciting weekend. I also hope you all enjoyed my last post and had a great V-Day. This week I want to talk about something I am working on this week that might interest some of those fashion bloggers out there. I arranged a photo shoot to take place today in a Grotto by my apartment complex. I found this aspiring photographer through a friend at U of L and asked two friends to be models. I have to make a creative for a company or brand for my stratigic communication class. I decided to go with one of my friends up and coming clothing line M.D.F. or My Divine Family. This clothing line features a lot of screen printing of t-shirts, crew sweatshirts, and hoodies and a little vintage wear too. He eventually wants to have his apparel in local shops and boutiques around the city so I thought I could compile a look book for him. A look book is a portfolio of models wearing your apparel and shows a assemble of styles you put together. I thought a look book would be perfect for him so he could show different store owners or merchandisers his clothes and how well he styles without him actually carring apparel with him. I like to think I’m killing two birds with one stone and having a little fun too. I will keep you all posted on the look book and how the photo shoot went. Have a great week and thanks again for taking time out of your day to keep in touch with DwaynessWorld! Peace.

Here’s a couple of pictures off what the look book would look like inside and out.

Thrift Mondays

I hope everyone had a great weekend and took note to my last blog. I’m happy to say I’m over my flu for the most part, but I am still taking medication. But over that, I want to tell you about something that might interest the fashion/vintage bloggers out there. Every Monday a friend and I go thrifting at Unique Thrift off Preston Hwy. We like to hit up Unique every Monday because they have 25% off everything in the whole store and sometimes 50%. Unique has apparel(Men, Woman, and Kids), shoes, furniture, accessories, and more. I personally like to thrift because I like unique items and pieces that I can place together that I would likely seeing on someone else. The prices range from $1-100, but I never spend more then 10 dollars on a single item. I encourage everyone to check it out, I promise you will not be disappointed. Heres the link to the store for more information if needed. http://www.uniquethriftstore.com/index.aspx I hope you all have a great week and thanks for taking time out of your day reading DwaynessWorld Blog. Heres also some pictures of items I have bought at Unique in the past. Peace.