Megan Pinckney Rutherford is a vogue and life-style content material creator in addition to a blogger by her model, Shades of Pinck. She’s a former Miss South Carolina USA who positioned within the prime 5 within the 2013 Miss USA pageant.
Bringing attainable luxurious to everybody’s feed, she blends the weather of a Southern belle and trendy mother into her model aesthetic. A few of her content material consists of dwelling decor and design, internet hosting and entertaining, motherhood, vogue, and her newest journey experiences. Via her collaboration with the clothes model Present Me Your Mumu, she reveals that “on a regular basis luxurious is for everybody.”
Rutherford shared how New York Vogue Week helps her forecast together with essentially the most sustainable materials to put on.
How does New York Vogue Week make it easier to together with your vogue model, Shades of Pinck?
Sure, it’s a whole lot of enjoyable. I’ve been coming to New York Vogue Week over time and I come to see and be seen. It’s my job the best way I take a look at it, which is to provide perception to my viewers, and there’s no higher place to do this than right here, whether or not it’s development forecasting, selecting colours, or conventional vogue merchandising. On a extra private scale, I’m mates with Sergio Hudson. He’s a designer from the Midlands in South Carolina. I’ve gotten to know him very nicely over the previous couple of years. He truly did my marriage ceremony costume. He and I’ve been engaged on a venture for over a yr now and I’m curating an exhibit [at] our native museum round his story, assortment and model. So, simply persevering with that relationship, I wished to be right here to assist him but in addition to get materials for that exhibit. That was what introduced me to New York.
What are some sustainable materials that customers needs to be carrying?
Something pure, so silk or cotton, and that’s going to have the next price ticket. These items are additionally going to final for a very long time. There’s a purpose why we are able to nonetheless put on them if we wish to. I like classic garments. I like pulling issues from consignment shops, but in addition from the closets of girls that I look as much as whether or not it’s my mother or grandma. There’s a purpose why I can nonetheless put on coats from the Nineteen Fifties as a result of they had been created deliberately with care. I don’t know what number of of our items as a era we’re going to have the ability to go on as a result of I don’t know the way lengthy they’re going to exist.
