00:04I originally went to college for fashion design before I started touring spent about 10 years on
00:10the road solid with my band the Etts and it was just full circle when I landed in Nashville to
00:16kind of pick up fashion where I left off. My name is Maria Silver and I'm a clothing designer here
00:24in Nashville Tennessee I decided to stay in Nashville because it wasn't here nor there
00:30it was its own entity and it had a much more of a collaborative vibe amongst the artist community
00:37amongst the fashion community amongst musicians people actually go out of their way to help each
00:42other out. Call Leslie Mobile. Hello. Hi Leslie how you doing? Good how are you? It's going pretty good. Have
00:55you found the fabric you were looking for? I haven't yet so I'm gonna head to textile fabrics and see
01:01if they have
01:02something. So my brand Black by Maria Silver is a woman's sportswear line it's for that kind of
01:10creative professional that can feel just as comfortable and her outfit and sneakers and then
01:15switch it to heels and you're done and can continue on your day. I do all my samples myself in
01:21my studio
01:22and all the initial pattern making and then I have a small production factory in Nashville that I outsource
01:29to do the production so everything is locally made and it's done here which is important for me to do.
01:36I
01:36consider Nashville a great city to celebrate art because the stuff that's happening right now is
01:42just the really energetic spark that is incredibly inspiring and it's also one of those things that
01:50kind of just gets your brain going gears you see other people around you being creative and makes you want
01:54to be creative as well it's just a really lovely lovely energy.
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