Fashion producing, red-haired czarina Jan Strimple‘s 2014 goals are:
- Spend more time with my charming husband. The biggest action I took towards achieving this goal was declining the production of the 2014 DIFFA show. Producing DIFFA at the level that Planet Productions and I have requires my home to become HQ for dozens of designers, wig stylists, production assistants and non-stop meetings and fittings. After producing the show for about ten years and then returning for the past 3 years to help put it back on its feet, this year I opted for a more civilized spring. Will I miss the creative outlet for my Disney-esque brain? Yep! But, I will pour all that creative energy into my other projects!
- To further develop an idea I’ve had cooking for several years: building a bridge between the fashion designers who visit our city and our local fashion college students. Attending fashion college in L.A. or New York generally allows for working classes/lectures with today’s designers or some of fashion’s prolific retirees. Dallas has never been able to offer that, yet we have stores like Neiman Marcus, Forty Five Ten and V.O.D. who bring designers into our city regularly. I shared this thought with Fashion Group International’s Chuck Steelman and he loved it. Appropriately titled The Designer Speaker Series this should be the year it takes off and I look forward to working with him on it!
G Bradley Alford says
If Jan Strimple is involved, I am 1000% in…….keep me in the loop for whatever!