What happens when a New York fashion editor blogs with an West coast techie in an ongoing search for style and substance
ABOUT KELLEY CULP:
"After a weak attempt at a Fine Arts degree at University Colorado at Boulder, I realized I was far too materialistic to paint murals in baggy overalls. I moved to LA and spent four years in what I can only explain as a Fashion Design Boot Camp called Otis Institute of Art and Design. An internship at Marc Jacobs in NY led to a job at JANE Magazine as a fashion assistant. Five years later, I was the Market and Fashion News Editor, only to lose my job when the magazine folded.
Fortunately, by then I knew what I was doing and was picked up by the NY Post to help launch a new Sunday Fashion and Lifestyle magazine called Page Six Magazine. I spent a little more than a year there before it went away. Fearing that every magazine would soon disappear, I partnered with Christopher and created Smocks, a line of limited edition, designer aprons.
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER IRELAND:
"Despite my name, I'm female. I am also a tech geek who happens to love design, particularly fashion and architecture. I have an MBA from UCLA and 20 years experience developing products and marketing campaigns, mostly for tech companies like Microsoft, HP and Intel.
I've lived on the West Coast all my life and imagine I always will because it suits me. I'm too casual to survive in an urban setting. I'm also restless--I love to start projects and companies, but I don't necessarily enjoy running them (unless they are small and fast). I'm also an optimist--about almost everything. Failure is just a momentary delay.
