Monthly Archives: July 2015

Collaborate at Creative Mornings

Creative Mornings is this Friday at Copper and Kings! This month’s theme is Collaborate, and the featured speaker is Lou Lenzi, the Design Director at GE Appliances.

Last month we spoke with a few CM attendees about their work, life, and style. Destiny Gowdy talked to us about working from home, and vintage clothes:

What type of work do you do?

“I work at Humana. I develop creative content for videos and I’m working on an upcoming ad they are doing.”

Tell us about your outfit today.

“I just got this dress from Unique Thrift Store for like $7! I wore it because I biked here, and its long enough to bike in.”

“I’m a heavy thrifter, but I’m a fabric snob. New fabric feels so light and cheap. I look for older things, at the right length and the right fabric, because I know it’s gonna last. I love stuff from the 1970’s, anything mid-length.”

Getting dressed is a creative process that we repeat every day. Where do you start?

I work from home, so I start with anything. But, if I go in to work I start with whatever will make me feel comfortable in an environment that I’m pretty new to. I’m new to the corporate environment, having previously worked in film, so I focus on feeling good. From there, I worry less about what I’m supposed to wear.

What brought you to Creative Mornings?

I moved here from Seattle, but grew up in Louisville. This looks awesome, I’m excited to be back in town, and that these things are happening.

Religious experience at Forecastle? Seeing is believing.

Memorial for Zephra Mae-Miller at the Smoketown Arts Festival this weekend. Photos by Josh Mauser

Zephra, who passed away in 2004, was known in Louisville as “the Bag Lady.” She was a talented folk artist whose hats, purses, dresses and works of art were made of ordinary plastic bags, beautifully woven into delicate patterns. She was lived in Smoketown, and was a stranger to few.

According to her son, among other hobbies, Zephra “threw hatchets, knives, and rode motorcycles”. She drove around town in one of two cars—a 1965 Chevrolet Impala convertible and a white Lincoln stretch limousine, one that apparently did double duty at the funeral home owned by her family.