i love learning about up-and-coming designers that i may have not found myself,

so yesterday morning when i woke up and had a facebook message from my boyfriends mom, Karen, that included a link to this article i was very excited! not only to read it and learn about a new designer who is actually from a town near my hometown in Tennessee but to also share it with all of you who follow my blog :)

Jeff Garner grew up in Nolensville, TN and went to David Lipscomb High School. he rode horses every day after school and "basically grew up in the woods and the barn" as he says in his interview with the Tennessean. growing up Garner wanted out of TN more than anything; which most young Tennesseans do, trust me ;) 

Garner attended Pepperdine Universtiy in Malibu, CA. he received a degree in business and communication. he was a California resident for about nine years before getting into fashion.

Garner is currently working from his family's farm in Nolensville but is working on setting up shop in a remodeled barn in Leiper's Fork, TN. he is excited to have access to land to grow the crops needed to develop dyes for his work. Jeff is not just messing around in a barn though, he has a store that is to open soon in Santa Monica, CA and his eco-friendly clothing line, Prophetik, can be found in more than 40 high-end boutiques, including Posh in Green Hills and Ivy in Franklin, TN, and throughout 15 states and even overseas in England and Switzerland. as well as his success in stores, various celebrities regularly wear his fashions including; Tennessee's own Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, Sheryl Crow, Kings of Leon and the Jo Bros.

to create his Spring 2011 collection, called Midnight Garden, he dug deep into his southern boy roots to create a sense of romance and civility in the line, including the precise tailoring of Civil War uniforms and the frilliness of antebellum gowns. the menswear of the collection is adventurous and the women's wear is "more like the adventurer's muse".

this just proves that no matter how small of a town you are from you are capable of big things.

xo.

and a special thanks to Karen German for showing me the article about Jeff Garner!