Saint Louis Trend Fund – the Gateway City’s voice of vogue – has a new deal with: Monique Levy. The lately named CEO arrived just in time for the SLFF’s changeover into its new Grand Centre headquarters at 3333 Washington Ave. LN spoke with Levy about her eyesight for the fund’s future and her substitute feeling of style – from band T-shirts to fight boots.
What drew you to the Saint Louis Trend Fund?
I definitely feel in St. Louis as an outsider. I’m originally from Jacksonville, Florida, attended College of Florida undergrad and went to [St. Thomas School of Law in Miami] ahead of coming into the nonprofit globe I’m in now. My husband, Jonathan, who is from St. Louis and is an artist at Sophie’s Artist Lounge, moved to St. Louis four yrs back to elevate our daughter, Rebecca, who is 4. So I have an appealing point of view, and I assume St. Louis has a good deal of prospective to contend in the manner and manufacturing market. I want to aid the fund display the world nationally and globally what St. Louis has to supply.
Explain your private fashion.
You will usually capture me in a blazer, denims, booties and a band T-shirt – 9 Inch Nails, Beck, Death Taxi for Cutie, Blink-182, 311 or Rancid – nevertheless my beloved band is Korn. I enjoy style. I deal with vogue like a lot of men and women address art – to me, it is an artwork form. So the fund is an possibility for me to individually tie anything I like in with something I’m superior at.
What is your vision for the SLFF’s long term?
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