Designer Love … Bohemian Babe
May 27, 2011
Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Emily Bargeron, founder of Mamie Ruth. If you haven’t heard of this Savannah, Georgia based designer, you may want to listen up. Here’s how I heard of this delightfully original line. In my home town of Charleston there is an event called the Style Swap. Local stores and designers come together under one roof to discount their merchandise down to next to nothing. I’m serious, I got two vintage pieces for about $30 dollars — like, awesome vintage. Well, walking back from the dressing room, I looked behind me to see a smiling face in a pair of pants that were to die for. So, being the style huntress that I am, I asked her, “Where did you get those pants?” She said, “Oh I made them. My line is right over there.” She pointed me in the right direction, we talked, and I decided they had to be mine. Before the night’s fashion show began, she went to see if the pair the model had on were my size so she could discount them. The next day, I got an email from her saying that she would be in Charleston that weekend and would bring the pants directly to me. And directly to me she brought them!
Emily’s whimsical and bohemian flair is so refreshing. It’s totally comfortable and wearable, and it is indescribably original. Getting her start by playing with her grandmother’s jewels, she realized that “the simplest outfit could be marvelous with the perfect trimmings.” And it is with that aesthetic that she has paved her way in the design world. The girl surely has talent. So, with a healthy dose of fashion inspiration from her nana (where so many of us glean our most elegant taste) it was only appropriate to name the line after this fashion maven … thus, it was dubbed Mamie Ruth.
So, we salute Emily and all of her accomplishments. We can’t wait until her designs are flooding all boutiques and she’s gracing the pages of national magazines. We’ll say we knew her when.
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Comments
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What an awesome collection! You were right – I’m loving these pieces – the prints are so gorgeous!
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