00:00My name is Charlene Dunbar. I am the designer behind Spa Cocoa Betty and I'm based out of Atlanta, Georgia.
00:18This journey in terms of being part of the Chevy Cruze street style capsule collection has been amazing just in terms of validating,
00:26hey, you know, your designs are on target and really bringing Spa Cocoa Betty to more of the women who appreciate great design.
00:34Spa Cocoa is my dad's hometown in Liberia, West Africa and it also means place of new beginnings in Kwele and then Betty was really the Western connection.
00:44A lot of my style instincts come from me being a Liberian.
00:48Last year when I saw how Ron Bass really pulled from his art ideas and applied them to the car design, I was really amazed at how he was able to pull those two things together.
00:59And I'm looking forward to kind of learning from him and his process.
01:07Hey, how are you doing?
01:08I am so glad that you're here. I'm a big fan of your work. I'm ready to pick your brain.
01:13How far along have you come on the process?
01:16Really at the point where I kind of know where I want to go, but I really want to get your eyes on it.
01:20I'm here for that. I'd love to see if you have someone to show me now.
01:23Absolutely. Come on, let's take a look.
01:26All right, so here are these sketches and these swatches that I wanted to get your input on.
01:32This is an example of some of the mesh that I wanted to use.
01:35I'm really looking for some insight on that because deciding between making it a print because this jacket will be a print where that should go solid or kind of keep the print thing out.
01:45What do you think about that?
01:46I would definitely need to break it up. I would go solid to add that balance.
01:49Just to kind of break it up a little bit. No, that's great.
01:52I'd love to actually walk out to the car and show you where some of these ideas came from.
01:56Oh, perfect. I would love that.
01:57So we can kind of just make that connection.
01:58Let's do it. Let's do it.
01:59All right, let's go.
02:01I really love the aerodynamic lines, you know, that taper where it's wider in the back and kind of narrows down in the front.
02:07I like that.
02:08The grill in the front of the car.
02:09Oh, yeah, yeah.
02:10Really spoke to me in terms of having that texture and just, you know, that open design. That's where that pulled from.
02:16Maybe the under cuff of the arm, the way it's kind of, like, the jacket. I kind of see that, kind of how it plays over there.
02:22Yeah.
02:23It's like body parts.
02:24Ass.
02:25The picks and plays over there.
02:26You ready to check out some of the other locations?
02:30Let's do it. Let's do it.
02:31All right. Let's go.
02:42So this is the Hammond House Museum, and I really love this location because it really focuses on African art and African-American art.
02:51It shows how the two of them connect.
02:53This is, like, a real full of inspiration.
02:55I know. And it's a great mix of contemporary and some of the older pieces.
03:00Are you going to also incorporate maybe some graphics? Maybe pull in some and bring in the actual art?
03:06I love that. You need to push me in that way. That's fantastic.
03:10So as you can see, the Hammond Museum is much different from where we just came from.
03:19Right, right.
03:20Gives me different points of views, different ways of using materials, and kind of new ways of doing old things.
03:26And it's very interesting for me as an artist to kind of learn from contemporary artists' techniques and apply them to my work.
03:32Thank you again for bringing me out here. Based on what I've seen, I think you have a lot of inspiration in your creative box.
03:40I'm really proud of you. I want to tell you that.
03:42Great. And I think you're going to do very well.
03:44Thanks, Ron. Really appreciate it. See ya. Bye.
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