{"id":1320,"date":"2008-07-28T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2008-07-28T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:34:47","slug":"heidi-merrick-clothing-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Merrick: Clothing Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/41074603.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/41074603.jpg','popup','width=300,height=415,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/41074603-tm.jpg\" height=\"276\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"41074603\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not like creating epic shapes doesn&#8217;t run in the family, so we don&#8217;t know why we were surprised to see <strong>Al Merrick&#8217;s<\/strong> daughter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidimerrick.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Merrick<\/a><\/strong> profiled in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/lifestyle\/la-ig-styleprofile20-2008jul20,0,2901037.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong> as a fashion designer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her clothes have a California romantic quality in bright sherbet-colored satins and chiffons and are sold at <strong>Lisa Kline<\/strong>, <strong>Dari<\/strong> and <strong>Wendy Foster<\/strong>. And she makes more relaxed pieces too, such as the Nonnie caftan, which Merrick was wearing on a recent afternoon in her breezy Moroccan-style abode in Silver Lake. &#8220;I try and push the way I live into my clothes,&#8221; she says. &#8220;When I get dressed, I pay attention to what I want my silhouette to be, what I&#8217;m comfortable in, the pieces I gravitate to first. And then I get to my studio and note all those things down. It&#8217;s the same thing with surfboards: They are shaped from the thought, research and the time in the water my dad&#8217;s put in.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heidi&#8217;s designs probably aren&#8217;t going to win any WCT events, but they&#8217;re actually pretty smooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/lifestyle\/la-ig-styleprofile20-2008jul20,0,2901037.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not like creating epic shapes doesn&#8217;t run in the family, so we don&#8217;t know why we were surprised to see Al Merrick&#8217;s daughter Heidi Merrick profiled in the LA Times as a fashion designer. Her clothes have a California romantic quality in bright sherbet-colored satins and chiffons and are sold at Lisa Kline, Dari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}