Artists
Angela Fabbri
Shop Angela's "Stay Wild" collection at the Round Top 2024 Fall Show at Zapp Hall in Denverado's Big Tent, Oct 18-26. Angela Fabbri has received celebrity, collector and press attention for her signature backwards messaging and eye for detail. Summer/Fall of 2023, her vibrant work was printed in 3 issues of British Vogue. She has shown during Art Basel Miami for the last 4 consecutive years, as well as the Florence Biennale, in Italy and a solo show in Marfa, TX, to note a few. First commissioned at 16 years of age, Angela Fabbri, has been painting for most of her life, and her contemporary realism and electric color palettes have been acquired by residential and commercial collections across the...
Angela Fabbri
Daniel Renfrow aka "Cutzu"
ShopĀ Daniel's hand-embroidered kimono design at theĀ Round Top 2024 Fall Show in Denverado's Big Tent at Zapp Hall. Daniel Renfrow is a freelance journalist and collage and embroidery artist based in Houston, Texas. Although heās now lived in Houston for half of his life, he had a meandering childhood, and was raised in small towns in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas before making his way to Singapore and eventually to the Bayou City as a teenager. During the early days of the pandemic, Daniel turned to crafting as a way to make the best of his time spent in isolation. Although he initially found creative solace in the art of paper collage, heās since shifted focus to hand embroidery and sewing. Daniel...
Daniel Renfrow aka "Cutzu"
Soi-k
Ā ShopĀ Soi-k's kimono designs as seen at our Neiman Marcus Houston Galleria fashion exhibition, May 2024: Soi-k is a music collector, artist, andĀ designer based in Houston, Texas. With a background in Design and Anthropology, she seeks to find unexpected illuminationsĀ through various mediums, including drawing, painting, and digital formats.Ā Her influences range from listening to musical compositions to visual artists such asĀ Martin Puryear, Ruth Asawa, and Isamu Noguchi. Each kimono she has the honor of painting leads to a meditative experience. These influences are apparent in her artwork through organic conception and lines as they mimic the waves of free-form water or frequencies.Ā Current works include Cosine1 and Cosine2, named after the song by the band Mamalarky, which was on repeat...
Soi-k
Magpies & Peacocks
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Shop pieces byĀ Magpies & Peacocks' as seen at Neiman MarcusĀ fashion exhibition, May 2024. Ā Ā Ā Ā Magpies & Peacocks, the nation's only 501(c)3 non-profit design house, specializes in the creation of up-cycled, zero waste and sustainable goods from reclaimed material, and the curation, restoration and redesign of vintage wear. As the global consensus on climate change rises so does the urgency and scale of action required to keep our planet safe. Immediate action is demanded of the fashion & textile sector as major contributors to the problem, calling for fashion stakeholders ā from raw material producers, textile & apparel manufacturers and fashion brands ā to identify areas for action, to develop a coherent and unified position on climate change mitigation and...
Magpies & Peacocks
Judy Masliyah
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ShopĀ Judy's kimono designs as seen at our Neiman Marcus fashion exhibition, May 2024: Ā Ā Ā *NEW* Designs for MFAH Trunk Show July 5-7 Ā Ā Vintage enthusiast and fashion designer Judy Masliyah of My Flaming Heart reimagined and redesigned our long, silk kimonos, shortening them by draping and resewing the length to create a modern bustle skirt effect. By adding unexpected details like corset lacing and peek-a-boo cutouts, Judyās kimono designs have a sense of whimsy and glamour. āMy approach to working with the kimonos is the opposite of how I design, explains Judy. I usually start with the idea of a silhouette and then try to find a fabric that works with what is in my head. With the...
Judy Masliyah
DonRasta Rseenal
D.O.N. (Divinely Operating Nature)R.A.S.T.A (Realizing Appropriate Solutions Through Awareness) As seen at Neiman Marcus fashion exhibition: "Rastacasso" Reimagined Vintage Kimono - Kimono Zulu Artist Collaboration with DonRasta Rseenal With a dynamic and multifaceted artistic style, DonRasta Rseenal emerges as an artistic visionary, articulating the essence of a "New Generation" within Jamaica's Reggae Music culture and the Rastafarian ethos of "One Love" with various mediums of artistic expressions. Hailing from the vibrant yet politically charged community of Allman Town in Kingston, Jamaica, DonRasta Rseenal cultivated a deep passion for the arts from a young age. Drawing inspiration from his surroundings, he found expression through poetry, spoken word, songwriting, and various forms of visual arts, channeling his experiences into creative outlets. Now...
DonRasta Rseenal
Jennifer Dawn Gabiola "Dawning Soul"
Jennifer Dawn Gabiolaās vision is to empower more women to unapologetically express their inner beauty and sacred style. She recently created her āSpirit of S.T.Y.L.E.ā Documentary to share her divinely inspired vision for Style as an empowering sacred practice to express your true essence from the inside out. She loves supporting her clients to fully own their true self and authentic style with her āStyle Vibeā Sessions and āStyle My Soulā Shopping Experiences. Her āI AMā poetic kimono is an inspired creation of her empowering vision.
Jennifer Dawn Gabiola "Dawning Soul"
Selven O'Keef Jarmon
Ā Ā Ā ShopĀ Selven's kimono designs as seen at our Neiman MarcusĀ fashion exhibition, May 2024: Ā "When Tina asked me to participate in the Kimono Zulu creative exploration it was like being asked to revisit a book I loved whose content was still lingering within my memory banks, explains Selven OāKeef Jarmon. Three of my most treasured influences are Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo. In working on the Kimono Zulu project, my approach cannot escape the conceptual nature thatexists in Japanese fashion and their overall influence on the world of fashion. With theseĀ ingrained sensibilities, I also approach each Kimono with its own minimal complexities derived from Western design influences as well. Each kimono I touch is met with a respect...
Selven O'Keef Jarmon
Shelbi Nicole
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ShopĀ Shelbi's kimono designs as seen at our Fashion Exhibition at Neiman Marcus Houston Galleria, May 2024: Shelbi Nicole, named one of "Houstonās Top 10 Painters" by Houston Press, is an artist, designer and influencer, with fine art paintings both collected and exhibited worldwide. In addition to her namesake line, "Shelbi Nicole," she has collaborated with many major brands including the NFL Super Bowl, Kendra Scott, Coach, Vans, Alto, Common Bond, CafĆ© Bustelo, Budweiser, NASA and more. She also manages a creative firm called Shelbi Nicole Designs that helps design creative spaces, interactive installations and hundreds of whimsical larger-than-life murals. She has also worked on a number of notable public art projects over the years, most recently The Whimsy...
Shelbi Nicole
GONZO247
See GONZO247's "International Spice" reimagined vintage kimono at our fashion exhibition at Neiman Marcus Houston Galleria, May 1-31. Ā GONZO247ās reimagined vintage kimono is an interpretation of the classic Indian folioĀ āShiva on His Vimana (Aircraft) with Himalayaā featured in the Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2018. GONZO247 was inspired by the use of color and patterns in the classic composition while keeping to his rendition of a contemporary abstract graffiti style. āWhen I looked at the painting I instantly gravitated towards the layered waves, and thought about the collection of layered graffiti tags youād see on a wall over time.Ā I enjoyed the challenge of...
GONZO247
Sebastien "MrD 1987" Boileau & Romain Froquet
Ā See Sebastien's new kimono designs at our Fashion Exhibition at Neiman Marcus Houston Galleria, on view May 1-31.Ā See MrD1987's x Romain Froquet's kimono collab sneak peek below! Sebastien "Mr. D1987" Boileau is an artist with a rich history and a passion for blending urban art with fine art. Born in Versailles, France, in 1973, Sebastien's journey into the world of art began at a young age, inspired by the American Pop Art movement and early graffiti culture. Starting his artistic endeavors in Paris at the age of 14, Sebastien quickly made a name for himself, creating his first canvas art piece in 1989 and transitioning to large-scale murals shortly after. His travels in the early '90s took him...
Sebastien "MrD 1987" Boileau & Romain Froquet
Emilie Duval
ShopĀ Emilie's kimono designsĀ created for our Neiman Marcus fashion exhibition, May 2024.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā EmilieĀ Duval is a French-American multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Houston and New York. Her artistic journey is characterized by a deep exploration of contemporary issues within the digital age. Through a blend of paintings and digital animations, Duval seeks to unravel the complexities of society's structure and the digital world's impact on our lives. Her work often revolves around the intricate balance of societal structures and the potential future shifts within this delicate equilibrium. Duval's portfolio is diverse, featuring series such as "The Garden of Yalta," "Computational Dust of Existence," and "Digital Heterotopias," among others. These series of paintings and visual installations highlight her ability to...