Cocktails with Adam Lippes, OKA Founder Sue Jones, and Marie Flanigan, in Conversation: Becoming Multi-Hyphenate Creators and Building a Design Empire, Moderated by Mieke ten Have, at OKA
WHEN: Tuesday, April 23, 6 to 8 pm
WHO: Designer Adam Lippes, NYC; OKA founder Sue Jones, London; designer Marie Flanigan, Houston; Mieke ten Have, NYC.
WHAT: Cocktails and Illustrated talk with Adam Lippes and Sue Jones, exploring Multi-Hyphenate Creators: Building a Design Empire — Balancing Your Design Business while Expanding in Creative Ways
STREET CRED: Adam Lippes, NYC, began his fashion career at Ralph Lauren before joining Oscar de la Renta, where he became one of the youngest creative directors of a luxury fashion house. Widely published for fashion, interiors, and travel, Adam is a tastemaker who provides an authentic point of reference for the brand’s audience. In addition to his fashion collection, Adam designs home collections for OKA, and is passionate about art, architecture, interiors, antiques, textiles, gardens, and travel. His homes in Brooklyn Heights, his farm in the Berkshires, and his antiques collections have been published numerous times. Adam opens his second retail store in Houston in late April carrying his full fashion collection, as well as home decor and objects.
Sue Jones, London, began her design career at Colefax and Fowler in London before working for Jasper Conran for 10 years. She founded OKA in early 1999 with two friends, Annabel Astor and Lucinda Waterhouse. Together they identified a gap in the UK interiors market to sell a unique range of furniture and accessories by mail order. OKA has grown into an omni-channel retailer operating 13 stores across the UK and three in the US, alongside a well-established online store, a quarterly magazine, and a trade service. Sue holds the role of creative director, overseeing the design and sourcing of the OKA collection.
Marie Flanigan, Houston, is a respected interior designer and clasically trained architect, with 600,000 social media followers, an e-commerce platform, collaborations with Visual Comfort and Annie Selke, and in fall 2024 her second book will be published by Rizzoli. Her projects have appeared in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Vogue, House Beautiful and showcased on HGTV's Property Bothers: Brother vs Brother.
Mieke ten Have, NYC, is an interiors stylist for national brands, designers, architects and publications, is a former home editor at Vogue and former design editor at large at Elle Decor, and is a contributor to Architectural Digest and Elle Decor UK. Her first book, Interiors Styled by Mieke ten Have publishes October 2024.
WHY YOU CAN'T MISS: Adam, Sue, Marie and Mieke dissect and discuss how a designer creates and navigates multi-hyphenate bodies of work, from collaborations with design brands to creating private label, creating a successful e-commerce platform, and opening retail stores.
WHERE: OKA, 3461 West Alabama, valet parking
TXDW SPONSORS: OKA, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Houstonian, Noeka Home