I researched, compiled content, and wrote the copy for the spread that spans pp. 70-71. Published January 2011.

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A new decade can redefine an entire city. What’s hip, hot and now for 2011? We track 2 “Sales are up and leases are still retail-friendly, which makes 2011 great for expanding boutiques like mine.”
down the best ideas, designs, trendsetters, tipples and bites for the year to come –kassie rempel, owner of simply soles, with locations at national harbor and georgetown park
Edited by George W. Stone, with Christina Holevas, Tiffany Jow, Marjorie Korn,
Lauren Marie Pritchard & Madeleine Starkey
Three for
rock
3
the road
As if we needed another
reason to hit up Tysons Galleria—
now we have three! Bountiful
stars
boutiques by Elie Tahari,
Vineyard Vines and Louis
Vuitton will be opening their
6 Few District
doors inside the ever-expanding
mall throughout the spring.
jeweleristas make About town
a style statement like While sorting through urban
7
Couture Saboteur. Each options, new-to-DC designer
Celia Reyer fell for the District. Why?
design is individually “With the city’s history and international
created on a form and culture, my aesthetic will thrive.” As will
purposely positioned for 01
her clientele—her gorgeous gowns are
perfect for DC’s gala-goers.
maximum effect.
8 9
must go must see
Born to a We’re watching
Barbadian dad WaPo’s Style
buttoned up! and Trinidadian section shape up
mom, Dana after losing much
4
It’s one of Oprah’s 02
Ayanna Greaves of its aesthetic
favorite things for 2011, infuses her paper team with the
jewelry and silk departure of
and it will be yours, too! dresses with her fashion editor
After working in DC politics for multicultural Robin Givhan
years, Rochelle Behrens could background, all (to The Daily
never find a blouse without a gape. 03
available at her Beast) and critic
So she made it! Her line of shirts, new boutique in Blake Gopnik
11
/11 featuring a patented double-
button, comes in four fashion-
savvy, suit-ready styles, each
Chevy Chase. in December.
best of Style crafted in cool stretch-cotton and 10 11
available in black, white and color.
Unzipped Farr
The New Crew
from
Saks Jandel
04 heaven
loves reality TV.
5 fine lines After hosting Friendship
“Think global, act local” Christian Siriano Heights just
just got even more stylish. Raid multi-faceted Locally based Couture Sabatour will and his capsule got friendlier
make its mark on 2011 with launches for its spring
1 in-exile” tookbehindmatters into their Friday don’tthey couldn’t find the style supplementsplay.their ideal. Starting with a line
The guys
sartorial
Derringer
own hands when
like to separate work from
to fit
These “dandified Southerners- your closet for an old jean jacket
and a fab scarf (perhaps grandma’s
line. 01 Custom bronze and gold tone leather cuff
with resin crystals, $375. 02 Gunmetal spheres and
collection last
year, the Chevy
to chic, niche
brands at Julia
of ties and pocket squares, dapper designers Lukas Smith (left) and Scott Permar (right) are launching a major accessories collection chockablock heirloom Hermès), and send it over blank link necklace with chains, $300. 03 Bronze Chase boutique Farr. Halston
serpent collar with multi-chain drop, $650. 04
with bags, tie bars, cuff links, hats and shoes. The 2011 spring tie collection will be blooming with floral prints, seersucker and a light, bright to Good Jeans Co. for a major brought Isaac Heritage, Tibi
Portrait by greg powers.
Jumbo ebonized studded wood cuff, $250.
color palette. In stores in NYC and online, the Bloomingdale neighborhood-based brand hopes to nab a DC retailer soon, too. mash-up. Former PR exec Kate Mizrahi and his and Milly rate
Fralin launched the couture biz after spring line to at this lawyer’s
lining her own jackets with aplomb. DC exclusively. new boutique.
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2 to the max! The Kennedy Center’s maximum INDIA festival. “The great international festivals produced by the
Kennedy Center are one factor in making the DC cultural landscape unique,” says National Symphony Orchestra Maestro Christoph Eschenbach. “This
year, the NSO will perform in maximum INDIA, giving us the great opportunity to experience this culturally rich part of the world.”
3 Words From
the Wise
Musicians Andrew Bucket
and Lex Paulson love to
rock onstage, but think the
internal life is worth examining,
too. So they dreamed up The Folly,
DC’s new print literary journal.
An all-star editorial board and Outsider Art
inspired submissions from DCites The Studio Gallery in Dupont
will stretch your intellect while Wild ThingS! 7
susan cho photograph courtesy of the studio gallery. chris martin’s Isaac Hayes courtesy of the Corcoran gallery of art. andy warhol image courtesy of the national gallery of art.
Circle opens The Magic of the
running the gamut of lit: expect Melting Pot: Immigration in America
poetry, satire, literary criticism, this month, showcasing a set of visionary
loquacious musings and even some
wild art showcases around town. 6 Hometown boy works inspired and influenced by the
canvases the city non-native experience from artists
around the globe—and closer to home.
with what just may be too
cool for the color school.
8 9
DC-born-and-bred Chris Martin
opens his first solo show at the Extra! district
Corcoran Gallery of Art’s NOW Extra! United
Contemporary Art Program The first show Sam Gilliam’s
on June 18. Ever ecstatic and dedicated to audacious
chromatic, Martin will install Andy Warhol’s project comes to
three original 40-foot-high tabloid mania life this month
paintings in a site-specific débuts at in the Kreeger
installation in the museum’s the National Museum’s In
atrium, where the artist’s bold— Unison: 20
iona rozeal brown’s sacrifice courtesy of the rubell family collection and the corcoran gallery of art.
smooth moves and, let’s face it, trippy—paintings Washington,
4 The South Asian folk dance will give a fitting nod to the DC Artists,
Bhangra has be‌ ome a bright
c sculptures in the same light-filled where a flock
international phenomenon. On Feb. 11, space. Martin’s Isaac Hayes (above) of the District’s
the sensation hits DC in the second- radiates shafts of vivid color. finest creatives
annual Elite 8 Bhangra Invitational, a show off their
hot competition at the Warner Theatre. skills in a variety
/11
of mediums. It’s
11 Gallery of Art a chance to see
5 “I’m looking forward to seeing brave, bold shows in 2011—works that this fall, with local works in a
80 works of uniquely local
The bold and the Beautiful
–Rachel Cothran, Public Relations
challenge patrons and shake things up a bit.” Coordinator, The Corcoran Gallery of Art sensationalism. landmark space.
1 based Rubell FamilyACollection, the landmarkA newly 30 Americans is being contextualized for the Corcoran at the Miami-
A local artist. local landmark. local family. A national show. First staged 10 Triple Threat The Washington Ballet rocks into 11 Material Matters In
exhibition Gallery of Art the new year with its rollicking February program, featuring February, the Textile Museum kicks off its yearlong dedication
this October, featuring the most influential African-American artists of the last three decades. Look for eye-popping works from Jean- to preservation with Second Lives: The Age-Old Art of
Michel Basquiat, David Hammons and performance artist Nick Cave. DC’s Iona Rozeal Brown steals the show with Sacrifice (above). Christopher Bruce’s Rooster, set to hits by the Rolling Stones; Trey Recycling Textiles. The exhibition features 18 works that
McIntyre’s High Lonesome, choreographed to Beck tracks; and an demonstrate how textiles can be artfully repurposed, with each
electrifying world premiere by Artistic Director Septime Webre. use gaining another layer of meaning and cultural importance.
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3 “Washington fosters opportunities to create great new buildings and landscaped environments that
can be contextual, human-scaled, transparent and sustainable statements of the 21st century.”
–Daniel J. Cinelli FAIA, Managing Principal, Perkins Eastman
7
Little
Apple?
The design-savvy
stars at Hickok
Cole Architects
are spearheading
their best project
yet: New York
University’s
4 Peace ShowPiece 75,000-square-
USIP image by Timothy Hursley. NYU DC Campus and District Architecture Center renderings by Hickok Cole Architects. double octopus lamp courtesy of Well Built.
September brings the much-anticipated grand opening of architect foot building on 9 Center Stage If you think design
Portrait by greg powers. MLK jr. national Memorial image courtesy of the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc.
Moshe Safdie’s United States Institute of Peace, a Modernist L Street, NW, competitions are hard, imagine facing off against 15 DC
expression of bended glass and bold diplomatic ambitions. The slated to open firms to win the task of creating a building about design. Hickok
USIP, expected to achieve LEED Silver status, will consist of in 2012. The Cole Architects did just that, and were awarded the job of erecting
three distinct sections, connected with atriums and an undulating ultra-mod space the District Architecture Center, set to break ground in March.
roof of steel and white glass, swooping near the Potomac River. encases offices, The firm’s design connects with the city through broad glass walls.
classrooms
and a 200-seat
6 auditorium. 11
10 Showing Off!
Museum What’s Kelley Proxmire’s secret? This Net
Major interiors guru and real estate problem- Zero
The National solver fixes up long-for-sale houses, which For this fall’s
11
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busy rehabbing
The Petersen
are snapped up within weeks. She’s a go-
to among firms such as Gibson Builders
and Washington Fine Properties.
Solar Decathlon,
Parsons The
New School for
House, the site Design’s carbon-
the Real Dealer
of Lincoln’s neutral home
death. Slated 8 will be built
to re-open this in Deanwood
spring with a Superior and sold via a
repaired façade InterioR no-interest loan.
1 Design-savvy Mei Xu knows how to engage even the most powerful senses. A candle from her high- and refurbished Ann Blackwell’s The project is
end interior accessories company, Blissliving Home, was a White House gift in 2010. Now, she’s turned her sights on another 5 The style interiors, the Well Built, one a collaboration
reigning couple with the launch of her London collection—just in time for the royal wedding. Picture applique pillows with red telephone hot spot historic space of DC’s top between Habitat
booths and sheets bedecked with the city’s skyscape. While no one can say whether Prince William—or his betrothed—will rest his royal will resume its design shops, for Humanity
head on Xu’s luxe wares, her diplomatic style is fit for a king. Just in time for spring, hipsters invaluable post brings Keeping It and DC’s
house-wares giant CB2 will open alongside Ford’s Close on Jan. 20, Department of
its accessories-filled showroom in Theatre and 6-8PM, a panel Housing and
Georgetown. With a huge expanse Museum. discussion by Community
of street-side display space for area designers Development.
2 Building the Dream Nearly five years after its ground-breaking, the 12,875-square-foot post, the promoting local The home’s
the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial is on schedule to open this August with cutting-edge, contempo shop is set goods and eco- energy use is
a star-studded landmark dedication. Generous landscaping near the Tidal Basin flanks the heroic to become the city’s go-to for chic, friendly building one-tenth of
structure, which will be the first memorial to honor an African American on the National Mall. inexpensive essentials. and design. its neighbors.
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