From Michelle
Meet Michelle Winters and view her 2009
holiday card collection of New York City scenes. Michelle will be
available to personally sign your card purchases.
Saks Fifth Avenue
(5th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, NYC)
Sat., Nov. 21,
1–4 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 7, 1–7 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 11,
3–7 p.m.
Takashimaya, NYC (643 Fifth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets)
Wed., Dec. 9, 2–6 p.m.
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Fifteen years ago, after a career in the fashion industry, Michelle
Winters made the decision to pursue a change, She decided to study
Graphic Design at Parsons School of Design and open a Graphic Design
business.
After seeing the style of her work, her teachers advised her to take some illustration classes. She was extremely hesitant, as she did not see many career opportunities in illustration. Regardless, something inside of her, told her to pursue the class. She wound up with a body of work of New York scenes, and created a little book of them.
One of her friends, (whose husband was a printer), suggested that she print them, and make them into holiday cards. Her friend borrowed the little book, to show her husband. It was very expensive to print the cards. Michelle had no idea if they would sell, While she was thinking about what to do, her friend went to a restaurant in NYC. She was at a telephone booth (this was pre cell phone). making a call. She had the little book in her hands, and a woman from a paper company spotted the book. She asked if she could see it. The woman loved the illustrations, said that her company would print the cards free of cost, if they could have permission to use them for a paper promotion.
The paper company printed the cards, and Michelle had the cards that she needed to show the stores! She had eight cards. She decided to present them to Bergdorf Goodman first. (Michelle's first job was there when she first moved to New York). She knew that they were a leader in the industry, and that if they bought them, others would follow. They DID buy them, and many others followed. Her cards are in some of the finest stores in the country, and consist of many styles in many cities. She has been commissioned to create custom cards for World Yacht Cruises/Circle Line, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many others.
At the time, she had no idea that taking an illustration class would lead to all these cards! When asked advise to give others she said, "Go with your intuition! Don't stop yourself from pursuing something, just because you don't know were you are going. Enjoy the journey!"
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