Market Publique is down in Austin for South by Southwest! Last friday, I was invited to the New Media Fashion Brunch, hosted by Indiana Adams of Adored Austin.
We had a blast seeing familiar faces and the Austin fashion bloggers and boutique owners. It was quite the idyllic day, filled with cute clothes, champagne, cupcakes and great company. Here's some pics of our adventures...
Thank you to all the bloggers who let me use their photos - my camera had an unfortunate incident, of course, the first day of SXSW!
Our host, Indiana from Adored Austin, hosted a delicious brunch full of goodies like croissants with nutella, fruit salad & quiche. YUM! Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
After meeting everyone, we did a bit of crafting and mingling. Although I mostly got mingling done... Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
Then we got the boutique crawl started. Our first stop? Jewelry and champagne at Eliza Page. Here, Brooke, founder of Fashism.com & Indiana pose for the camera. Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
My favorite jewelry at Eliza Page was the collection from Elizabeth Cole, who you may remember is the designer of the fish skeleton earrings I wore to the IFB party in September.
I was very tempted by these rhinestone jaguar earrings, but seeing how I already have a pair of jaguar earrings I decided to exercise some self control. Foreshadowing: the self-control did not last...
After Eliza Page we headed to MissBehave, who had some fabulous printed dresses. Indiana browses the racks while Anna tapes some footage for her video for the News 8 Austin. Scroll down to watch it! Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
I loved that Katy of Dirty Hems were both wearing ikat, so we decided to take a photo in front of this oh-so-true sign. I followed the advice on there a couple of days later when I splurged on a pair of fringed wedge shoes on our next stop... Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
Our next stop was Girl Next Door. This boutique was even more tempting... I fell in love with the aforementioned Joie wedges. Plus they had very convincing cocktails and mini cupcakes. Photo courtesy of In Her Stilettos.
They had a vintage jewelry trunk show by Esther. Photo courtesy of In Her Stilettos.
My self-control disintegrated at that point and I got this vintage snake belt that I immediately wore as a bracelet.
Then we refueled with some pink champagne and chocolate covered strawberries at Cru. Photo courtesy of Walls Are Imagined.
Indiana and Grechen of Grechen's Closet chatted about our next plan of attack... Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
That only got us partly started on our sweets binge... The second stop was Delish for amazing cupcakes - some with fancy edible glitter!
Some exercise was in order, so we left 2nd Street, crossed the bridge and headed to South Congress for some more shopping. Photo courtesy of Fashism.com
Our first stop on South Congress was Prototype, which will be featured in a more complete way on the blog soon. After that, some heavy shopping at Feathers, tacos at Gueros and a nap! What a perfect day! Photo courtesy of Walls Are Imagined.
Watch video of the event by News 8 Austin. Thanks to @webanna for the great coverage!
For more photos and coverage, visit:
Adored Austin
Fashionably Austin
In Her Stilettos
Walls are Imagined
