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Dinner Lab//ATX

Dinner Lab is probably the most unique dining experience I have had in my life.  It’s soft opening is being held all this week, and I had the pleasure of an invite to one of the friends and family events: a five course gourmet meal served in a moped garage.   DinnerLab, although new to Austin, was not surprisingly founded in our beloved sister city, New Orleans.  As the only city in the country to trump our weirdness, and THE pinnacle of fine dining, New Orleans lends it’s culturally revolutionary flavor to my current home, and it’s so very appreciated.

So what exactly IS Dinner Lab?  It’s a once in a lifetime experience, literally.  Fusing the refined talent of up-and-coming gourmet chefs with little known (or completely unknown) spaces, Dinner Lab creates an evening that cannot be replicated.  Members are given an address the day before the dinner, and they are ushered into weird spots, like moped shops, to eat a 5+ course meal tailored to perfection.

I’ve requested a membership and will be patiently waiting for an invite.  Fingers crossed SO HARD.  The photos are sort of limited, because I was so busy enjoying myself, but next time I promise to have the lens glued to my eyeball.

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The Windmill Club SS13 Look Book

Shot by Laim Goslett

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Literary Lookbook//Brooks Brothers x The Great Gatsby

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Limbo Launch Party//Handcrafted Jewelry//ATX

Jewelry designer Edson Zinser Enriquez cuts to the chase: design focused on the sheer beauty of simplicity.  Sharp lines and negative space shape the minimalistic masterpieces Enriquez delivers with his collection.

Limbo has all of the qualities an Austin staple requires: true artistic merit, prime location, accessible price point, and best of all-it’s a husband and wife team.  Edson designs everything, while Anne handles the business aspect of the line and location.  Limbo’s first physical store is sandwiched between iconic South Congress landmarks New Bohemia and South Congress Cafe, and likely will be there for a long time to come.  The first time I walked into Limbo, I was greeted by co-owner and director of operations, Anne Rutt-Enriquez, whose good vibes just sort of radiate out of her.  Her passion and commitment to her husband’s designs is evident in the way she communicates to her client base and conducts their business.

The space has a clear congruence with the geometrical streamline of the pieces themselves, but that doesn’t deter Edson and Anne from coloring their landscape with true Austinisms:  succulents are bursting from the backs of plastic dinosaurs and miniature desert terrariums line shelves, while a giant “Til Death Do Us Part” painting hangs above the register.

The launch party featured DJ El John Selector (Thievery Corporation, Poi Dog Pondering), Catering by Mettle, a photobooth by Lucero ValleLive portraits by RAY RAY Mitrano (click this link, it’s awesome), and a percentage of the proceeds to benefit Austin ASPCA & workers defense project.

I shot that//Nayara Megarity x Chelsea Richards

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Nayara is wearing a modal and cashmere Herff Christiansen tank from Moss in Austin, TX.

Prada//Real Fantasies//SS13

Stop motion, collage, black and white, texture, classic tailoring, beautiful, angular models, metallics, and….wait for it…..florals (?!)
Everything I love most in one campaign. Art direction win.