HeatSpine

    Heatspine may not cure your grandparent’s aching back, but it’s sure to send chills down your spine. Although there are many ways to describe Heatspine, we, The Yacht Club, understand Heatspine to be the photographic crumb trail from the life of Stephanie Thomas. Based out of Nashville, TN, Stephanie has truly found her passion to be in fine art, event, and portrait photography.

    Upon purchasing her first camera, at the age of 15 for an art class, she had never even considered any significant thought about photography in her entire life up until that point. Yet, since that moment and up until now, you can see her carrying a camera on her at all times. Unfailingly cemented to her side for 7 years, her camera has truly become a fixture of her person that one day showed up, and never left. 

    Stephanie’s transformation into a photographer has been an unceasing journey of learning and creating her own personal language. However, there are no words involved, only light. Stephanie spends her days in constant observance of what she sees, waiting for that fleeting moment of raw, unrefined beauty that shows itself to her. When she sees it, she captures those moments through her camera lens. With the press of a button, she immortalizes tiny moments of time that would otherwise be gone and forgotten. 

    Her romantic view of photography makes her relationship to her passion one of ambivalence. Her personal desire to express what she sees doesn't leave much room for conventionalism. She has no time for rules and regulations that most consider concrete truth. To Stephanie, the art of photography is strictly about setting forth her very own testimony of beauty with a single image, with one goal in mind… the possibility of inspiration. And for that, we salute you!

XCocaineXJaneX

Back in August, we had the insane opportunity to see New Orleans’ Big Freedia, The Queen Diva of Bounce, in Nashville at Exit/In. If you haven’t had the chance to see her/him live, you’re missing out on a carnival style show of ass, ass, and more ass. We’re not sure what kept us there and weirdly entertained; it was either the catchy party tunes or the insane spectacle of booty-poppin’. In the midst of the sea of sweaty, jiggling ass, we had the pleasure of meeting Cocaine Jane.

Cocaine Jane is also known as Kayla Bishop from Birmingham, AL. Kayla is not only an admirer of The Yacht Club Company, but also a phenomenal artist, model, stylist, and entrepreneur. Basically, Kayla is an extraordinary individual that pisses excellence and reeks of ambition. During our luncheon, we learned that she was launching her own clothing brand, appropriately called Cocaine Jane.

Kayla plans to release her clothing brand by November 2012. She has been showing off previews of her merchandise on her Instagram(Sneek-a-Peek @XCocaineJane). The Cocaine Jane collection will include everything from t-shirts and stickers to 40 oz. koozies and coffee mugs. She told us that she had been experimenting with gold spikes and embroidery, so you can only imagine what’s next.We had the privilege of viewing the exclusive Cocaine Jane t-shirt collection. We even got a few “limited edition” t-shirts of our own. Afterwards, she hopped on a plane to New York City for a photo shoot for Mishka Clothing.

During her stay in New York, Kayla met up with the incomparable Danny Brown while on the LongLiveA$AP Tour. Not only did she get a photo of Danny Brown in a Yacht Club Original, but also, in a recent interview by Complex Magazine, A$AP Rocky claimed she was “the highlight of the tour so far.” And for that, we salute you.