The Brush Factory will show at Fashion Week April 2010
Nathan Hurst poses for CincyChic.com
Nathan Hurst has teamed up with KeepingCincinnatiBeatiful and many many other helping hands to bring Cincinnati’s first ever Fashion Week. Click the link below to find out more and add CincinnatiFashionWeek to your Facebook for updates.
TBF has been invited to join in the mayhem. More specifics will be posted as the week is nearer Rest assured, we will be having some promo events at the shop, new designers, and a grand finale show for SpringSummer 2010 (which will then be available to purchase at TBF.)
While Mario Savio, some activist dude, was talking about student rights or something, he appealed to our Luddite side when he so passionately delivered the famous speech: “You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!” The truth is, after that speech, he hopped back online and joined up with his World of Warcraft guild, typing to his Internet comrades, “1 l0ve th3 netz sOO much!” Another truth is, it’s not okay to be a Luddite, so we at Milk Money have printed up a 15-step program to help you come to realize that science and technology should be embraced. Don’t bite the robotic hand that mechanically sealed your Eggo waffles at a stunning 600,000 waffles-per-hour. Instead, kick back, relax, read some new fiction and poetry from Milk Money’s wonderful contributors, and let the nuclear sun rays give you a tan to die for. Here’s Milk Money, Volume
Six: Luddites Anonymous…
There was no ghost, and Christmas has passed… but Saturday brought quite a surprise through the doors of the Brush Factory.
As I was working on some weaving for an upcoming collection, a young girl and her mother came in. Dressed in pink, long curly thick hair …im talking Curly Sue thick, one small pink barrette in the front, rosy cheeks and spoke with more eloquence than the third graders Ive met. She came to conduct an interview with a “real” fashion designer because that’s what she wants to be when she grows up.
All this time I was thinking the same thing.
I was flattered..
I wouldn’t exactly say I have fulfilled my child hood dreams just yet. But after I met a certain someone else that day… it made me think again. I have been invited to view Mary Baskett’s personal clothing collection comprised of the most influential Japanese clothing designers of the 20th century.
The Brush Factory will be closed on Saturday January 23 to remember Jenna Laumer, a friend of many, and the brave battle she lost to T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia this past Tuesday.
Jenna worked for 3CDC in downtown Cincinnati and was very involved with local entrepreneurship. She was one of the first persons I sought advice from about developing a boutique. She was so incredible enthusiastic about my ideas that I should give her a little credit for PUSHING me to the edge and really just diving right into the project.
Thanks Jenna
Thanks to Ann Lawson, a long time friend and one curious babe wrote this lovely article about Brighton. Oh yea, she also lives in the neighborhood too!
Brighton is a little forgotten strip of history that was once bustling with Cincinnatians traveling up and down the canal, riding the street cars and the inclines.
Style Sample international fashion and style/ blogosphere magazine, available in print as well, has featured The Brush Factory in their January 2010 “Scrappy Style” issue. Nicole Jarecz (seen below) is also keeping her roots in graphite and velum like a true illustrator.
The Brush Factory article was written by Australian native, Vannessa Laraine of Hallowed be Thy Name
this magazine is full of inspirational youth.. thanks
