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I have been fortunate enough to work with Mary Amons, founder of “Labels for Love”, a number of times  this past year and let there be no doubt, she proves a mother of five can make her marks in the fashion industry! Mary has the heart, the wit, and the style to make a charity like Labels for Love succeed and she has no shortage of industry friends who will support her cause.

I am so excited to announce her event happening this January 14th at the Washington D.C. Mayflower Renaissance Hotel featuring designer clothes from Lela Rose’s Spring 2010 collection and the man who brought the original hairstyles to the New York Fashion Week  runway for this show:  one of my favs, Ted Gibson and team!  Christian Dior’s National Beauty team will be backstage along side creating a complimentary look for the show featuring T.H.E. Artist Agency models.

This is a can’t miss event to benefit The Center for Heart, Lung, and Kidney Diseases at Children’s National Medical Center. It is already being touted as an “An exclusive evening of Fashion, Art and Philanthropy!” and I know it will live up to the hype.  I look forward to seeing you there!

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I pride myself in keeping my blog personal to my experiences and to reviews of things I have tried and come to love. I try not to report on a brand new product or company that is out unless I’ve tried it myself to give you my honest opinion on it.  So, in having adapted this philosophy, it doesn’t surprise me when big news slips through my radar, but I am finding that news worth reporting somehow brings itself right into my face, such as with star stylist Ted Gibson!

During Inauguration Pre-ceremonies I had the pleasure to do makeup for Amy Brenneman, the beautiful actress from the show Private Practice. I came a bit early, chit chatted with her amazingly talented husband about how things have been in D.C. thus far while setting up and waiting for Amy to arrive. A few minutes later Amy came in with a hairstylist followed by  two videographers. I figured she was going to be doing an interview of some sorts while getting ready. It turns out the two men were actually following the hairstylist, who introduced himself to me as Ted Gibson. The two men had been collecting footage of the events he was doing including an earlier shoot he had with Ted and Caroline Kennedy for Vanity Fair.

Natalie's NYFW S/S09 Showcard I did makeup/hair for.

It’s not that often you get to witness a friend’s career go skyrocketing to the moon within a few short years, but for Natalie Hockey, that is exactly what has happened. Natalie is a 16 year old model from Maryland who I met when she was 13 and just starting out in the modeling world. Her fresh and innocent look, perfect model stats,  and polite demeanor definitely made her stand out in castings and made her an instant hit on the home turf jobs. It wasn’t long before Natalie was being represented in New York and traveling back and forth between castings, school, jobs, and events.

Cut to a few short years later and Natalie is now signed with one of the most profound top model agencies, IMG, and it’s hard to not notice her! She walked for NYFW S/S09 and got picked up by many designers to walk for their collection including Zac Posen and Rodarte! I even had the opportunity to bump into her backstage at the Cho Cheng show she modeled for that I worked on under makeup artist Lottie S. Her streak continued on as she was whisked away to Milan and then Paris Fashion Week directly after her first New York debut with IMG.  On that whirlwind tour she got picked up to walk for many of the greats such as D&G ,Dolce and Gabanna, and Miu Miu,  just to name a few!