Chris Benz Becomes A Southern Gentleman

by The Daily Front Row

Savannah Fashion Week is granting Chris Benz with their first-ever Savannah Fashion Visionary Award. Random alert? Not quite! Benz, a Seattle native, often returns to the Georgia city for inspiration and has previously been a mentor to SCAD design students. He even named his Fall 2011 collection “Spooky Savannah.” And while he put his namesake collection on hold over a year ago, Benz is keeping busy with an eBay partnership, a London Fog capsule collection (so apropos for today’s weather), and consultation work for Synchro Crossing, a Japanese label. Peachy keen, non?

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