THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS...

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHAT THAT BEAUTIFUL NEW SCENT YOU WERE
SNIFFING INSIDE SAKS FIFTH AVENUE AND NEIMAN-MARCUS THESE DAYS ITS
ITS DOUGLAS HANNANT.  JASMINE AND ORANGE BLOSSOM FUSE TO CREATE A CLASSIC FRAGRANCE WITH A MODERN TWIST, SOMETHING DOUGLAS HANNANT KNOWS ALL ABOUT.

THE LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE FRAGRANCE WAS A GILDED AGE SPECTACLE IN THE PAYNE-WHITNEY MANSION ON FIFTH AVENUE IN NEW YORK.  WHEN YOU WALKED IN THE FOYER WAS ABLAZE WITH PINK LIGHTS, ORCHIDS, AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN  NEW YORK HAD TO OFFER.  GILDED AGE LIVERY LINED THE STEPS LITE BY CANDLE LIGHT ALL THE WHILE TEMPTING YOU TO TRY THE FRAGRANCE.

IT WAS A NIGHT OF ELEGANCE AND GRACE AND I WAS PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE FESTIVITIES.  FASHION NEEDS MORE MEN LIKE MR HANNANT.

PUT ON SOME SWEET SMELLING JUICE, FEEL PRETTY, OPEN THE DOOR AND STOMP THE RUNWAY!

APOLOGIES AND PICASSO!

FIRST LET ME BEGIN BY SAYING I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT HAD A POST IN SOME TIME.
COMPUTER ISSUES AND LIVING THE GLAMOROUS LIFE KEPT ME FROM THE KEYPAD.

RICHMOND HAS BEEN A BUZZ ABOUT THE COUP OF LANDING THE ONLY EAST COAST VIEWING OF PICASSO AT THE NEW VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ART.  WHAT AN OPENING NIGHT PARTY, THE ORGANIZER JENNIFER GORSLINE CREATED A WORLD WHERE YOU LITERALLY STEPPED THRU PICASSO'S RABBIT-HOLE (A FRAME) AND INTO HIS WORLD.  "WHERE WHAT YOU CAN IMAGINE CAN BECOME REAL."

THE DRESS-CODE WAS WHIMISICAL FORMAL AND THE LADIES AND GENTS STOMPED THE RUNWAY IN A PLETHERA OF DIVERSE INTERPETATIONS.  THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAS THE ARTIST WHO CAME AS A PICASSO PAINTING, HERSELF BEING THE CANVAS.

IT WAS AN HONOR TO ATTEND AND IT IS AN HONOR FOR THE MUSEUM TO HAVE SUCH A COLLECTION UNDER ITS ROOF.  PICASSO YOURSELF, BE INVENTIVE OPEN YOUR DOOR AND STOMP THE RUNWAY ALL THE WAY TO THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS.  A SPANISH GENTLEMAN AWAITS.

THE DESSERT CROWD!

YOURS TRULY!

THIS IS HOW RICHMOND ROLLS!

A TRIBUTE TO PICASSO'S SPANISH HERITAGE.