In honor of Jeffrey Kalinsky’s 25th anniversary as a Phipps Plaza retailer, Jeffrey Fashion Cares returned to the iconic Buckhead shopping mall Monday night at the recently renovated Monarch Court. At times during the pre-fashion show reception, quarters got a bit close as hundreds of attendees all congregated into the white curtain draped corridor in […]
When every last designer frock is rolled off the sales floor and stashed in the stock room where an armed guard stands vigil, you know it’s not going to be a typical evening at Jeffrey Atlanta. The Phipps Plaza retail mainstay closed early on Sunday so shoppers, friends and family could help the shop’s namesake […]
It’s more than appropriate that the 23rd annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares Atlanta benefit will return to Phipps Plaza when the Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta and Atlanta AIDS Fund erects its runway on the freshly renovated Monarch Court next Monday, August 31. It’s where the benefit’s namesake and now-national retail arbiter Jeffrey Kalinsky opened his […]
Atlanta photographer Alli Royce Soble was shooting the ambitious new #GTJoy social media campaign outside the Georgia Tech Student Center this spring, asking students to name three things that brought them joy when one of the responses stopped her in her tracks. “This student just looked at me with this completely blank expression and said, […]
When Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer in Cooperstown, New York, he only had 12 minutes to express a lifetime of appreciation. So the pitcher’s agent Lonnie Cooper threw Smoltz a private party held this summer at the marketing and branding firm’s CSE’s Atlanta headquarters […]
One morning in 1999 over coffee in her office, a few weeks before she died at age 89, Atlanta Constitution reporter Celestine Sibley brilliantly boiled down her 60-year journalism career for me. “Letting the people know,” she explained. “It’s really a holy cause. Time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad […]