Description
The Ruby Star Society ladies use a playful "Shark Tank" process to create collections. They start with a mood board and pitch their ideas to the group. After discussing, they choose the most exciting collection and begin creating the art. The designer with the winning idea becomes the art director, guiding the collaboration.
For Ruby Star Society's next collaborative collection, Geometry, Melody presented an idea to the designers for a series of simpler, vintage-inspired, hand-drawn prints featuring geometric elements like lines, stripes, and dots. She envisioned designs that captured the retro essence of double-knit polyester fabrics (which, despite their poor quality, have wonderful designs), all created by hand and refined through the perspective of the RSS designers. The designers collaborated for just over a month, generating far more ideas and color palettes than ultimately made it into the final collection. In the end, Melody played a key role in narrowing down the options and seamlessly blending the colors together.
Ruby Star Society starts with five women working collaboratively and supportively to design delightful, beautiful fabrics, and it continues with you: Every person who has looked at a wall stacked high with bolts of fabric and felt that first spark of inspiration, imagination swirling, colors calling, all promise and possibility. Founded on the belief that a good idea is worth fighting for, this sisterhood consists of: Melody Miller, Kimberly Kight, Rashida Coleman Hale, Alexia Marcelle Abegg, and Sarah Watts.
