A Special Bankle Holiday Event
Sponsors and Participants
BIOGRAPHIES FOR OUR CREATIVE TEAM
Detroit By Design
Detroit By Design (DBD) is a promotions and production company specializing in creative, cultural and community event services. DBD has produced and/or supported events including the High Tech Soul Film Premiere, 2007 Detroit Opera House Bravo Bravo Event,Fashion For Food I-IV, S2dio Night, Woodbridge Summerfest, 2006 Riverfront Towers Fireworks Celebration, and the Scarab Club 100 Year Anniversary Party. Event services include catering, red carpet events, film premieres, creative receptions, wine parties, fashion shows and photography services. Detroit By Design works on location throughout the greater Detroit area while producing a majority of their signature events in the Detroit By Design Gallery inside Camilo Pardo’s Bankle Building.
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Femilia Street Couture
Fotoula Lambros and Emily Thornhill founded Femilia Street Couture in early 2007. Remaining friends after attending design school together,at the Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, they collaborated on a way to share and expand their design ideas with the world. Duringthe Fall of 2007 the designers made a big hit at Detroit Fashion Week with their first formal showing together as Femilia. Since this timethey have quickly built relationshiops with the media, photographers, models and buyers becoming one of the fastest emerging Couturedesign labels in the Detroit area. As women, they are detail oriented, hard working, professionally driven, passionate, confident, outspoken,sexy and intelligent. They design for women who share similar attitudes and aspirations. We expect great things from Femilia in the future.
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Joshua Band Photography
Joshua Band is an Ann Arbor-based photographer who creates highly stylized fashion photography. His extended studies in art, design, and filmmaking have influenced his ambitiously creative trademark style. Post production techniques are employed to create hissignature style. Clients include Spin Magazine/Spin.com, Real Detroit Weekly, Vivid Braille Clothing, Kate Bennett Fashions, Detroit Fashion Incubator, and Salon M. He is looking to form relationships with both corporate and agency clients. His photography has been showcased at the Scarab Club in Detroit, MI, in Big Idea Magazine, Real Detroit Weekly, and at Spin.com and PerfectWeddingGuide.com. Band is anaward winning photographer who has been featured as photographer of the day on OneModelPlace.com.
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Imeer D. by Jill Robertson
Jill Robertson is an accomplished and experienced seamstress, designing dresses for private clients while selling her 2007 Fall Collectionin Royal Oak at Artisana Obscura. Her professional design work has been employed with theatre companies, wedding parties andindustrial automotive clients. Ms. Robertson is a cross-disciplined road scholar leaving her mark on the fashion design scene in Detroit. Her well executed and sophisticated Imeer D. fashion line is influences by fashion design studies in London, England, a textile and apparel undergraduate focus, as well as marketing and management skills picked up from Graduate studies. Her work has been shown on therunway at the Detroit Fashion Incubator, featured as a finalist at the 2007 ArtRageous Gala and the 2007 Detroit Fashion Week.
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Directions to Detroit By Design
To reserve the galleries for a special functions contact Rich Rice.
SAVE THE DATE: Bankle Holiday Party 2007
We are very fortunate to have had so many wonderful experiences with you in 2007.
Join us for a special Bankle Holiday Fashion Event so we can celebrate the season
with our community friends and supporters. Happy Holidays from Detroit By Design!
Detroit By Design and George Petersmarck
DETROIT BY DESIGN 