Vintage Couture Inc. hosted its first annual Sales Force Convention, Divas in Dallas, July 22-23! It proved extremely successful because of our wonderful (and fun!) sales force and hard-working corporate staff! It was incredible to see 50 VC Stylists meet and inspire each other. It was also great for the corporate employees to get to know the Fashion Stylists.

The event kicked off Friday night in Frisco, Texas with a banquet and awards ceremony. Corporate staff members were introduced, followed by every single one of our Fashion Stylists in attendance!

In between dinner courses and dancing, we recognized and rewarded the Quarterly Award Achievers, Top Ten Personal Sales, Top Ten Recruiting, Distinguished Diva, and Top Ten Team Sales. And throughout all of this excitement, we had numerous raffle prizes and a Coach Handbag give-a-way!!

  

On Saturday, VC’s celebrity designer Trista Sutter was there to take photos with the Fashion Stylists and offer words of encouragement at the luncheon. The Stylists were then surprised with a sneak peak of the Fall 2011 Look Book. Afterwards, the fall collection was introduced by designers Jessica Wiswall and Yvette Day; Operations Manager Karen Landis; and designer Trista Sutter.

Following the event, Trista headed to the design studio ready to begin work on her Spring 2012 line for VC. The design team and Trista worked together Saturday afternoon enthusiastically!

While Trista and the design team focused on the Spring 2012 line, Fashion Stylists attended training sessions taught by fellow Stylists to help them become more successful and productive in their business. The agenda included Building a Direct Selling Organization (by Sara Hendricks), Tips for Strong Team Building (by Cindy Boyd), Marketing your Business (by Cassity Reed), and Trunk Tips (by Shannon Rosiere). 

 A huge thank you to our teachers for the workshops who delivered informative and inspirational messages to other VC Stylists. Thank you to those who participated and helped make Divas in Dallas an exceptional weekend to remember in Vintage Couture history. Divas, let us and our readers know what you enjoyed about this event!!

Check back soon for more pictures of the Divas in Dallas 2011 event!

My Vintage Baby Featured On Access Hollywood

We're thrilled to have been featured on Access Hollywood! Trista's childrens clothing line (Winter Rose) is featured in an exclusive mini-fashion show with a surprise visit from celebrity chef Bobby Flay!

Tea with Trista

The big day for Tea with Trista finally came and went and we have so many fun images to share! It was a great debut of the Trista Sutter clothing designs, as well as the MVB Fall designer childrens clothing pieces. We have lots to share and lots of people to thank, so here goes…






Tea with Trista was a whimsical event that combined the worlds of My Vintage Baby and Alice-in-Wonderland to formally launch the 2010 MVB fall collection. We celebrated the new line with a catalog release and live fashion show. We feasted on the finest and most delightful tea party food. We raffled and auctioned off a multitude of fine prizes for our fine guests. We had a candy bar, a live friend from “Wonderland,” a red carpet and a photo booth… and we had Trista!!! Could this get any better? Any more fun??






Doesn’t Trista look oh-so-cute? She also did a fabulous job before the event plugging the tea on WFAA channel 8’s good morning texas and with Mix 102.9 and Victoria Snee. You can view Trista’s television interview here. Be sure to watch for the awesome display of mdp photos to flash across your screen for a loooong time – thank you channel 8!!











Here is more of Trista with her troop of little winter rosettes:) Her line is called Winter Rose and is inspired by a 1950’s vintage tablecloth and her history with roses!!








Don’t forget this was all for a good cause too! My Vintage Baby Foundation is dedicated to supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. We had representatives from the My juvenile diabetes research foundation present – what an honor to have them here to help kick off fall! A portion of the proceeds from Trista’s line will go directly to JDRF. Here is a JDRF local affiliate child in action with Trista!



More fun details to help set the mood for you…









Oh, and look who made a surprise visit??? Reality Steve and Jeremy from the Bachelorette!



Did we mention the crowd was Cuh-ray-zee over Trista??!!! Everyone wanted to talk with her and have their photo taken!! MVB Corporate even managed to get a shot here with our Corporate office team and Trista—


(MVB Corporate from left: Lesley, Jana, Jessica, Trista, Yvette, Lisa, Amber, Aye)



Here is our AMAZING photographer Melissa Darst of Melissa Darst Photography and Trista…



Some of the fashion show in action. This guy was quite the hit with those rockstar hands:)






And our very own friend from “Wonderland”…



A HUGE thank you to Melissa Darst Photography for capturing this amazing event and helping to put it all together! And for creating all the photos from our over the top Fall 2010 catalog! She is so talented!

Thank you to The Tomkat Studio for inspiring us and helping to style our event!! We still wish you could have joined us for the big day, but thank you for all of your donations and your talent. All of their custom details – the cupcake toppers and food tags, programs, menus, signs, labels and other Alice graphic pieces – you see are all courteousy of Tomkat. you can view more of their work event on their blog here and even purchase your own Alice goods and more in their Etsy shop! be sure to become a fan on Facebook!

Thank you to Stonebriar Country Club for hosting this event and for the lovely menu, valet, and wonderful staff. Susan, you are fabulous!!

Thank you to Timeless Elegance Weddings of Frisco for being party planners extraordinaire! Kim and many of her partners stepped up to the plate to donate our beautiful flowers, linens, décor, lots of man power plus lighting and so much more!!

Thank you to Susan of Tierney Media (online and event advertising) who is AMAZING and the rest of the media crew- Kathy with Karagin Marketing and Clint with Loveness Films!

Thank you to Arlington Camera, our favorite camera shop, who donated all of the equipment and photo booth set-up for the event.

Thank you to Elegant Cakery for donating over 300 cupcakes, which are more like pieces of art, for the event! They were heavenly and such a hit. You have got to check out their website – this place is good!

Thank you to DFW Kids Parties & Events for sending our awesome “friend” from Wonderland!

Thank you to the JDRF for coming and speaking at our event and to all the wonderful companies who donated items for the silent auction to raise money to help find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes!



There are so many more individuals and businesses that were apart of this big day, so thank you, thank you! There were so many parties involved. We hope all of you that came had a wonderful time.