It's pretty quiet in the world of billy music this time of the year, but here's what I can find:
Tonight, January 26 - Scarlett Deville and the Devillettes @ the Horseshoe in Chicago, IL @9pm (free)
January 29 - Nothing to Gain, Jayke Orvis and the Broken Band, James Hunnicut, The Ugly Reggie's Music
Joint, Chicago, IL @8pm 21+ $10
January 29 - Dexter Romweber and the New Romans, Killer Filler, Bustello @ the Pinkhook in Durham, NC
In other news, the new Duet Dress line is available at Belindabilly.com, with more one-of-a-kinds added each week!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
New "Duet" for spring
Just a quick couple updates...
Belindabilly.com is back online, literally. It took a few days to get switched over, but Belindabilly's website is now 100% wind powered. Oh, the freedom! It feels really great to have an oil-free cyber side, but there is still much work to be done!
New photos of the Belindabilly signature skirts are up at Sense of Fashion, and will soon be up on Belindabilly.com as well. Also coming soon for spring/summer are new "Duet" dresses. Here's a preview:
Belindabilly.com is back online, literally. It took a few days to get switched over, but Belindabilly's website is now 100% wind powered. Oh, the freedom! It feels really great to have an oil-free cyber side, but there is still much work to be done!
New photos of the Belindabilly signature skirts are up at Sense of Fashion, and will soon be up on Belindabilly.com as well. Also coming soon for spring/summer are new "Duet" dresses. Here's a preview:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Ch-ch-changes
It is 2011 and Belindabilly is beginning anew. There have been a lot of changes in my own life since the beginning of 2010 and Belindabilly has gone through a lot as well. Many projects were cancelled because of this, that and the other thing; intentions for blog posts were never realized; plans just generally fell through. But it is a new year, and though it is time for reflection, it is also time for forging ahead. I restart with new energy and enthusiasm, new ideas, and new hope (no there is no star-wars themed collection in the works) and a new computer! I hope to bring my art practice and my fashion design closer together, with more of my own fabrics in my clothing and more artful inspiration in my collections. I hope to have fashion shows paired with art openings and new stores carrying both my fashion and my art. But, I'm getting a little ahead of myself.
One of my first steps is to bring my fashion practice a little more in line with my personal values. I try to make sustainable and eco-friendly decisions in my artwork and in my everyday life, so why not in fashion too? Not that Belindabilly wasn't started with sustainability as a tenet of the company, with our organic cotton logo t-shirts from the beginning, and upcycled clothing later, but I need to take bigger steps. I need to think about the impact that every facet and every detail has on our environment. That is why I have moved my website from a decent but lackluster webhost to a small company based out of Portland Oregon called Canvas Dreams - one of the few if not the only web hosting business that actually uses 100% clean energy for their servers. I'm not talking about all the places that pull electricity from the grid and then purchase carbon offsets; that's a step in the right direction, but still part of an outdated inefficient system. The servers at Canvas Dreams, and as far as I know, probably the office, too, is powered by wind energy that comes from a wind farm near their facility. That's real innovation and not only is it a good step for the environment, but they are also showing that wind energy is both viable and efficient.
Which brings me back to Belindabilly. There are many steps I still need to take and a lot of questions that don't yet have an answer, but I want to show that fashion can be eco-friendly without having to look like it is made of potato sacks and soybeans. Not everything that is organic has to be olive drab, and I'm going to prove it.
One of my first steps is to bring my fashion practice a little more in line with my personal values. I try to make sustainable and eco-friendly decisions in my artwork and in my everyday life, so why not in fashion too? Not that Belindabilly wasn't started with sustainability as a tenet of the company, with our organic cotton logo t-shirts from the beginning, and upcycled clothing later, but I need to take bigger steps. I need to think about the impact that every facet and every detail has on our environment. That is why I have moved my website from a decent but lackluster webhost to a small company based out of Portland Oregon called Canvas Dreams - one of the few if not the only web hosting business that actually uses 100% clean energy for their servers. I'm not talking about all the places that pull electricity from the grid and then purchase carbon offsets; that's a step in the right direction, but still part of an outdated inefficient system. The servers at Canvas Dreams, and as far as I know, probably the office, too, is powered by wind energy that comes from a wind farm near their facility. That's real innovation and not only is it a good step for the environment, but they are also showing that wind energy is both viable and efficient.
Which brings me back to Belindabilly. There are many steps I still need to take and a lot of questions that don't yet have an answer, but I want to show that fashion can be eco-friendly without having to look like it is made of potato sacks and soybeans. Not everything that is organic has to be olive drab, and I'm going to prove it.
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