Alli Marshall
Alli Marshall is the lead arts reporter and fashion editor at the Mountain Xpress in Ashevile, N.C. She is also a freelance writer and novelist, and holds a MFA in writing form Goddard College. Her interests and areas of expertise include alternative fashion, street style, recycled wear, indie-designers, green and eco-fashion, eco-weddings, budget shopping, vintage and retro style, fashion history, travel, culinary history and literature.
Articles by this Author
Raw Seam Sensibilities: Asheville’s metropolitan fashion sense
- By Alli Marshall
- Published 02/11/2008
- Fashion Designers and Fashion Brands , Fashion News Articles
- Unrated
Few people, whether visitors or long-time residents, are likely to mistake Asheville for a sister city to the Big Apple. A sibling to Athens, Georgia or Ithaca, New York, sure. But not New York City unless you’re talking about some psychic extension of Brooklyn’s funky-trendy Williamsburg area. Then again, the Western Carolina mountain town does share an important commonality with its unlikely northern ally: Fashion.