The Luxury Home Alliance - Upcoming Evening Event, “Fashion and Interiors: Luxury's Design” - July 25th

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“FASHION and INTERIORS: LUXURY’S DESIGN”

Date: Wednesday July 25th, 2007
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm

Location: The Fashion Institute of Technology, The David Dubinsky Student Center
Building A, 8th Floor. On 27th Street, Right off of 8th Avenue (between 7th & 8th Aves)

Panel Presentation by:
Kenne Shepherd, AIA, Principal, Kenne Shepherd Interior Design + Architecture PLLC
Randy Ridless, Principal, Randell A. Ridless LLC
Ron Pompei, CEO and Creative Director, Pompei AD
Nancye Green, CEO, Waterworks

Generously Hosted by The Luxury Home Alliance, with thanks to The Fashion Institute of Technology

Attendance is limited to the first 100 confirmed guests, please RSVP promptly to avoid disappointment.

Synergy abounds amidst design for fashion and interiors, and trends influencing one market are influencing the other. Experiencing luxury at retail depends ever increasingly on the interior design and décor of some of the world’s most celebrated fashion and design brands.

Our panelists’ remarks will reveal, from their respective points of view as architects, interior designers, and design business leaders, the environmental relationships they have designed for their luxury retail clients and their affluent customers.

Our members, luxury marketers, know that the designed environment is the 3-D embodiment of a brand image. The look and feel of the retail environment is as powerful as the client’s graphics, PR, and marketing campaign in communicating the essence of the image and the brand.

Informed by trends in fashion and eager to be influenced by new directions in design, interior designers and architects are creating built environments that embody the business objectives and image of their clients, and at the same time expressing their own design philosophy and vision.

Members and guests of The Luxury Home Alliance will see and hear from our distinguished panel about their approaches. We have asked our panelists to comment on their work and to discuss the sources of their design inspiration and how they as designers merge their creative vision with the creative vision and business objectives of their clients.

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ABOUT OUR PANELISTS:

Luxury Home Alliance members will recognize this vanguard of designers because they represent the vision and execution of many of the most chic retail and commercial interiors, and certainly are destined to do more. Their work is featured on the most fashionable stages of New York, Los Angeles, London and the world.
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Kenne Shepherd
Kenne Shepherd, AIA, founded her own architectural firm to provide interior architectural services to retail, corporate, and residential clients. Ms. Shepherd has designed numerous built environments that give both shape and meaning to the identity of her clients and their lifestyles, products, or services. She has a keen awareness of luxury markets and design trends, and an expert understanding of both interior architectural design and the value and importance of integrating innovative lighting technologies into the built environment.

Distinguished by Display & Design Ideas magazine as one of today's top 100 design firms, her practice has produced several award-winning projects for such noted clients as Calvin Klein, Bergdorf Goodman, Lancôme, and Salvatore Ferragamo. Kenne’s leadership in luxury and design is amply demonstrated by her ability to attract this event’s panelists, and her insight in to the key issues has helped frame the quality of the agenda.

Ms. Shepherd is a licensed architect in the States of New York, New Jersey and Nevada. She is an active member of the Association of Real Estate Women (AREW) in New York, the Fashion Group International (FGI), The Retail Marketing Society (RMS) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Chapter.

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Randall A. Ridless
Randall A. Ridless, LLC, a New York based interior design consulting firm, was founded in 1999. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. Ridless began his career at Bloomingdale’s, R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. and I. Magnin. After decorating for the firm of David Anthony Easton, Inc., Ridless was appointed Vice President of Store Design for Saks Fifth Avenue where he designed thirty store interiors nationwide.

Ridless created the Burberry prototype store on Bond Street in London, and now his designs for Burberry include stores in Tokyo, Barcelona, Moscow, New York City, and 40 stores worldwide.

Ridless designed Bergdorf Goodman’s Women’s Main Floor, Second Floor, and Women’s Shoe Salon in New York City. In 2004, his firm won the international competition to design the Van Cleef and Arpels flagship store on Fifth Avenue.

Randy Ridless has been named one of America’s top 100 designers for the fifth consecutive year by House Beautiful and as “One of the Top 10 Designers to Watch in the 21st Century” by House & Garden. He was selected by Interior Design Magazine as one of the top 13 “New Blood” residential designers in New York and as one of the top 100 designers by both Gotham and New York Magazine.

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Ron Pompei
Ron Pompei’s multidisciplinary education and training as an artist, sculptor and architect is the lifeblood of Pompei A.D.’s holistic approach to its projects, enabling the firm to integrate diverse forms of expression through architecture, design, experience branding and cultural entrepreneurship.

Philosophically centered on ‘commerce, culture and community,’ this innovative firm has collaborated with a wide spectrum of clients including Sony, Coca-Cola, Anthropologie, Fortune Magazine, Levi’s, Herman Miller, and MTV.

Leading as the Creative Director, Ron’s firm’s work has been recognized by The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Interior Design, Blueprint, Metropolis, and The Financial Times. He is a popular and featured speaker at industry, branding and educational venues including CNN, Fortune, Time Inc. and conferences on design and branding.

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Nancye Green
Nancye Green is currently Chief Executive Officer of Waterworks, a luxury brand that offers fixtures, fittings, surfaces, and furnishings for environments in the home dedicated to water. She began her professional career as a designer, founding Donovan and Green, a design and marketing communications consultancy working with clients ranging from Pleasant Company: American Girl Place, Sony, Metreon in San Francisco as well as creating the concept, story, and design for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. She has had a career-long interest in making content accessible and understandable and, most of all, in telling stories and bringing new products and ideas to market.

Nancye is past President of both the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the prestigious International Design Conference in Aspen. In 1998, she received an honorary doctorate from The Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC for her contributions to the field of design. She has served on the Board of Directors of D’arcy Worldwide and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Hallmark Cards, Waterworks, and Wildlife Trust.