Former denim designers behind Current/Elliott debut exclusive Pottery Barn collection at Indianola - Chron

For stylish young things, Emily Current and Merritt Elliott need no introduction. Their eponymous denim label, Current/Elliott, is often credited with putting the beloved "boyfriend jean" on the map. And though they're no longer affiliated with that brand, the quintessentially West Coast thread that united the design duo as college kids some 20 years ago is alive and well in their two new projects: a ready-to-wear women's collection called The Great and Emily & Merritt for Pottery Barn.

Last week, a handful of Bayou City influencers and women-about-town were introduced to both projects. On the tail-end of a Texas road-trip, which included stops in Austin and Round Top, Current and Elliott hosted a California cool dinner at one of the summer's hottest restaurants, Indianola.

More on that later.

Their Houston tour kicked off with a stay at the Post Oak Hotel at Uptown and subsequent jaunts to the Galleria to explore Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. The duo also popped into Tootsies (where Current channeled her inner Southern swan to pull the trigger on a Texas-sized ballgown, #thistheseason), made cameos at Abejas, and of course, took stock of Pottery Barn in Highland Village.

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That's where Current and Elliott fans can order bath and bedding essentials from the designers' hip take on Americana aesthetic. The textile fabrics and color palette are pre-washed and lived-in. Think faded greens, spice and indigo sprinkled with preppy stars, stripes and polka dots. It's the sort of linens you'd expect to see at a boutique hotel in Marfa or Palm Springs - which obviously is very on-brand.

In 2015, Current and Elliott launched The Great, a relaxed coterie of everything that's fashionable right now: prairie dresses, collegiate separates, distressed denim and a whiff of Parisienne je ne sais quoi.

Which was exactly the vibe of their ultra-intimate dinner party, too. Past the pale pink banquettes in Indianola's main dining room, and behind a sliding door at the rear of Miss Carousel, an interior bar, some two dozen guests feasted by candlelight.

There were no speeches or fashion presentations. Just a gaggle of 'it girl' types digging into a five-course, nine-dish meal with free flowing wine and wildflower centerpieces.

In-between family-style appetizers and sides - Indianola sourdough with burrata, slow-cooker pork ribs, barbeque shrimp, sauteed summer squash, crispy potatoes, and charred carrots - dinner-goers selected their choice of salad, entree and dessert.

Then they shopped for bedding.

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In lieu of place cards, mix-and-match duvet, sheet and quilt sets hand-picked by Current and Elliott on printed postcards marked each table setting. Attendees box-ticked their way to new bed linens before the main course. And just like that, the local swag game was forever changed.

So if you've missed the designers' cool-girl stamp on cult denim, fear not. You can now both wear their new duds, and sleep on them, too.



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