Billy Reid (fashion designer)
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Billy Reid is an American fashion designer. His clothing is known for its classic styles in high quality fabrics, but with unusual accents, self-described as "low-fi Southern-bred luxury".[1]
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Early life and education
Reid grew up in Amite, Louisiana, just south of the Mississippi border. He operated a women’s clothing boutique located in his grandmother’s home. Reid's hobbies included outdoor activities in the surrounding Southeast Louisiana wetlands.[1]
Reid attended Southeastern Louisiana University. Later he attended the Art Institute of Dallas and studied fashion design and merchandising. While still at the Art Institute, he started working for Saks Fifth Avenue. After Saks he worked for 6 years at Reebok International, travelling across the globe for the first collections of Greg Norman. He started his own company in 1995 with clients including Fruit of the Loom, Neiman Marcus, Reebok and Takashimaya.
Brand
Reid's first collection launched in Spring 1998. He received the CFDA Best New Menswear Designer award in 2001, but economics forced him to close his business in Spring 2002. Reid then moved to Florence, Alabama.
Reid's new business model built up a small namesake chain of shops which reflected his "personality and his aesthetic" - loaded with antiques, family heirlooms and reclaimed architectural materials; they "took on a very personal, warm and hospitable environment."[1]
His company headquarters is in downtown Florence, Alabama in a historic bookstore. Downstairs is his flagship shop and upstairs is his design studio. There are also shops in New York City (opened Fall 2008),[1] Highland Park Village in Dallas, New Orleans, Nashville, Charleston, Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.[2] The stores are notable for their atmosphere of faded elegance, for example the New York store has faded chairs and carpets, an antique chandelier, mounted deer head, and antique apothecary cabinets.[3]
The brand is sold in Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdales in the US, and Takashimaya in Japan. Each season the brand debuts a line of K-Swiss/Billy Reid collaboration sneakers.[4]
Actor Daniel Craig wore the Billy Reid Bond peacoat in the 2012 film Skyfall, which exposed the brand to a wider audience. [5] The coat was named after Bond Street, the location of the brand's flagship store in New York City.[5]
Retail locations
Billy Reid monobrand stores are located in:
- Atlanta (Buckhead and Westside Provisions)
- Austin, Texas
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Chicago (Fulton-Randolph Market District)
- Dallas (Highland Park Village)
- Florence, Alabama
- Houston (Westheimer Road)
- Nashville
- New York City (Bond Street and West Village)
- New Orleans (Magazine Street)
- Washington, DC (M Street NW)
Awards and honors
- 2001 CFDA Best New Menswear Designer award (Perry Ellis award)
- 2008 New York Magazine Best Men's Store (for New York retail store)
- 2010 GQ Magazine Best new menswear designer in America[6]
- 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Prize [7][8]
- 2012 CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Billy Reid on Facebook
- ↑ Times Daily Reid wins designer award
- ↑ Fashion New York Times 2009/02/19
- ↑ K-Swiss Billy Reid Collection
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 JAKE WOOLF, How James Bond's Peacoat Changed Billy Reid's Business, GQ Magazine November 5, 2015
- ↑ fashionista.com GQ names Billy Reid Best new menswear designer in America FEB 2010
- ↑ Billy Reid wins 2010 CFDA Huffington Post
- ↑ Marc Karimzadeh, Billy Reid Named CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Winner Women's Wear Daily November 15, 2010
- ↑ Council of Fashion Designers of America
See also
External links
- The Shortlist: Billy Reid Elle Decor, October 2013
