{"id":1053,"date":"2015-11-21T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T17:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"heart-of-fashion-houston-recap-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Fashion, Houston (Recap and Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1053 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?attachment_id=1054'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7114-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7114-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7114-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1054'>\n\t\t\t\tDJ Booth in reception area\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?attachment_id=1055'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7119-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7119-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7119-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption 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150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1061'>\n\t\t\t\tDinner at The St. Regis Hotel\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I had the pleasure of attending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartoffashion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heart of Fashion<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vivian.wise?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivian Wise<\/a> Production, in Houston, Texas earlier this week. Vivian and her staff did an incredible job creating quite the atmosphere in\u00a0an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionair.com\/hou.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airport hangar<\/a>. The collections I viewed during\u00a0Wednesday&#8217;s fashion show were beautifully executed articles of clothing and the presentation first-rate. I should have had a snack before attending as the cocktails were flowing! \u00a0Quite the night, indeed. It concluded with a delightful group at the St. Regis Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of attending Heart of Fashion, a Vivian Wise Production, in Houston, Texas earlier this week. Vivian and her staff did an incredible job creating quite the atmosphere in\u00a0an airport hangar. The collections I viewed during\u00a0Wednesday&#8217;s fashion show were beautifully executed articles of clothing and the presentation first-rate. I should have had a snack before attending as the cocktails were flowing! \u00a0Quite the night, indeed. It concluded with a delightful group at the St. Regis Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,13,40],"tags":[263,147,260,178,261,265,264,266,262],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clothing","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","tag-carmen-dellorefice","tag-graydon-parrish","tag-heart-of-fashion","tag-houston","tag-million-air","tag-peter-cohen","tag-peter-martino","tag-ralph-rucci","tag-vivian-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}