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Investment opportunities, wherefore art thou? The answer is high atop our fair metropolis in the City Club. In that venue with a view, Christie Taylor of Hodges Taylor Gallery told the City Club's Investment Strategy Club on Tuesday how to buy and enjoy art.
She recommended Cristina Cordova, the ceramics genius based in Penland, near Asheville. You see her fascinating ceramic head in the window of the crafty Mint Museum on Tryon. Speaking of which, that Mint (this town has a double mint of museums, ya know) has its own new head, Annie Carlano, just in from Santa Fe. The other Mint, on Randolph, has a big shindig tonight, the opening of The Art Of Affluence, with some of Elton John's clothes. (Too subtle for me.)
Neiman Marcus full of art
Kristine Ottens Matthews, GM of Neiman Marcus, reminds me that her store has 178 pieces of art hanging around. I reassured her that when I get arrested for shoplifting, it will only be in her store. Unlike alleged Madame Sallie Saxon, who was recently popped for an alleged five-finger discount at Stein Mart in Cotswold.
1st Kennedy Covington, now what?
Kennedy Covington, trusty ol' business-oriented law firm, was gobbled up this week by K&L Gates, an international law mega-firm. Here's what the Ken Cov lawyers are buzzing about over lunch at Lola's and Mert's – who's next?
Dress like a driver
Ran into my friend Paul Simon the other day. Wearing a $2,000 gray Zegna suit, he instructed me in how to go “NASCAR chic” this summer. Simon outfits Clint Bowyer, and says the hip drivers dress like this in summer: Linen jacket, linen or silk shirt, expensive jeans, Italian loafers. “It's a really dressy casual,” Simon says. So when you're ready to pose on the patio at M5, near Simon's store, you'll get mistaken for Kasey Kahne.
All new Emerson Joseph
Simon has new competition. My favorite sisters of suits and spas, Stacy Donnelly and Shelly Takats Hutchins, have set up a new Emerson Joseph on Sharon Road. This comes six months after the men's store popped up in Ballantyne. The coolest thing about Emerson Joe: Ultra-elite poker game in a back room of the uptown store with a private entrance. Donnelly went to West Point.
Queen City protector
This is the summer of superhero movies – Iron Man, The Hulk, Batman…. So, if this city had a super hero, here's who I think he/she would be. Spencer Lueders, the Renaissance man of NASCAR – attorney, engineer, bicycle racer. Or Michelle Menard, chief of Choice Translating – along with suave hubby, Vernon. The super hero would belong to the City Club, of course. ($3,500 initiation fee, if you're a resident. And $134 a month dues.) The superhero would be outfitted by Simon, shop at Neiman's, pose at M5, play poker at Em Joe, and – of course – nab shoplifting madames wherever they grab the merchandise.
Look, up in the sky!
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