Hello 2023 👋🏾

Hi Friends,

We made it!  So how was everyone’s year?

Here at Paris Marie Productions we took a minute at the start of 2022 focusing on where we wanted to go next and it turned out that we wanted more collaborations. At the start of the year we held a Black Love pop up shop at our previous Palette Studio location in Addison, TX. It allowed us to bring together 5 black-owned businesses to help educate the community on what they had to offer from fitness wear to MedSpa services to exclusive hand-made jewelry.  It was such a successful event and we were thankful to be pouring into other black owned businesses that have also poured into us.

Although the year started off strong we were hit with a challenge that forced us to pivot and go through a transition. After only spending one year in our Addison, TX  studio location PMP and Palette Studio had to move on and find a new home. Although we were sad to leave Addison we were happy to have found our new studio in Bishop Arts District. The community is so vibrant and artistic, it felt like fate for us to be there. Our new space has given us room to think bigger when it came to the events we wanted to hold, which led us to BLOOM. BLOOM was an intimate photoshoot that was very special to us due to the fact that it was about women embracing the skin they are in. Women are magical and we didn’t want any woman to forget that. This event gave women the safe space they needed to have deep conversations and feel sexy. No one needed to tell us that we are the THAT GIRL in the moment. 

And speaking of big moments in the summer during Juneteenth PMP traveled all the way to NYC to have our 2nd major collaboration of the year with Brooklyn Blooms. We connected with our childhood friend, LaParis Philips (owner of Brooklyn Blooms) to shoot a flower crown photo series , entitled CROWN ME, that crowned local female entrepreneurs with her curated seasonal blooms and you know we also had to get LaParis in front of the camera! We spent the day visiting both of LaParis’s floral shop locations in Brooklyn and taking pictures of beautiful black women entrepreneurs. The message was clear, which was CROWN ME now and give me my flowers because I am here and we aren’t going anywhere. It was an outpouring of love that led to our work from that day being featured in THE TIMES SQUARE! Can you believe it? PMP, two women from the midwest with a dream that’s running wild. It was a monumental moment for us because it was a check in that we are on the right path even when it feels like nothing is going on there is always something in the works for your benefit. It’s like the universe was saying hello👋🏾.

PMP had a good year with our clients and collaborations, but we must ask ourselves this year like we do every year what’s next? And how will I get there? I have a feeling we will figure it out, but we are looking forward to 2023 and we hope you all do the same because it’s waiting.