How Wyld Empyre is Giving Back

Fort Worth handbag designer Lauren Blake launches a collection of exotic skin and leather bags

After nine years as a graphic designer, Lauren Blake decided to launch American-made luxury handbag brand Wyld Empyre. The Fort Worth native and resident lives with her husband and two sons and studied architecture at the University of Texas and 3D design and sculpture at Texas ... More

Meet One of Bravo’s Runaway Stars

Project Runway alum Lela Orr is designing her way into Dallas’s closets

Having clinched the 2020 Rising Star Award from Fashion Group International of Dallas, Lela Orr is readying a boutique to showcase her Ferrah fashion label as well as other sustainable fashion and accessories. Located across the street from the hip Trinity Groves ... More

Meet Dior’s New Dallas-Based Beauty Ambassador

Luxury skincare guru Joanna Czech is fully embracing her newest role as beauty ambassador for French house Dior

Operating two tony skin studios in Dallas and New York, where you must book at least a year ahead to see her personally, Polish-born entrepreneur Joanna Czech didn’t think she’d partner with a mega fashion brand. “I surprised myself by connecting to a big fashion house ... More

Do The Two-Step In These Designer-Favorited Boots

Meet the sister act behind the cowboy boots with a New York Fashion Week runway debut

When Prabal Gurung needed cowboy boots to wear to Barbara Bush’s wedding festivities, he surfed the web and discovered Miron Crosby, a fashionable collection created by two sisters in Dallas. Five months later, he had not only a pair for himself but also eight More

An Immigrant’s Story of Success

From a deserted island to Dallas, Ashley Murphree Tran defies the odds

Ashley Murphree Tran knows risk. At the age of five, in 1979, she fled Ho Chi Minh City with her parents and sister in a boat crammed with refugees. On the seventh day, Thai fishermen pirated their valuables and fuel, dumped their food in the ocean, aa lind set the ... More

How to Embrace Style While Doing Good

The status quo is unacceptable to Jennifer Sampson, president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas

Jennifer Sampson, the president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, has big ideas and isn’t afraid to implement them. That’s the reason there are a couple hundred thousand fewer impoverished people in Dallas than if trends had continued, and why a popular nonprofit restaurant has ... More

This Beauty Maven Goes Skin Deep

Beauty Bioscience CEO and co-founder Jamie O’Banion is changing the skincare game worldwide from her Dallas headquarters

A quick scroll through Jamie O’Banion’s Instagram and one may wonder how the mother of three could possibly do everything that she does, and do it all seemingly flawlessly. For starters, she seems to exist on little to no sleep, yet she looks perfectly put-together, 100 percent of ... More

The Story Behind a Housewives Star’s Skincare Empire

From the White House to The Real Housewives of Dallas, D'Andra Simmons has been an ethically conscious business maven

As a Real Housewives of Dallas cast member and skincare maven, D’Andra Simmons is no stranger to environmental toxins. Despite the recent second season’s many sordid hijinks, which included everything from death threats to sex toy gags gone wrong, Simmons managed to stay above the fray. “Even though I’m ... More

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