Latest / Winning With Winans! / Fashion, Freedom & the Real Las Vegas: Dani Reeves on Style Beyond the Strip
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- speaker-0: So Danny, I don't know if you saw the Met gala. Now, which is something, I mean, I've been to New York, my family, my dad was a New Yorker. It always been, I want to go to the Met. I want to be in my tuxedo. ⁓ I want to see those beautiful dresses. And ⁓ my lord, what I saw, it I hate to say it, it looked like a clown act. I mean, I don't know what it was. It looked like Mardi Gras. But but here's my thing about fashion is that it's like there are some people that have just, it's like it's a fight for attention. I mean, I'm looking at it from the other perspective. But what I see happening here in Vegas is a balance. My girlfriend and I just went to a veterans gala. The women were in beautiful gowns. I mean, they were dressed. Beautifully, everything was fine. Yet we all know you can go to the strip and you can see something else. How is it that Vegas has been able to maintain that balance between the two worlds? What would you say? speaker-1: I will say that the Met Gala is designed to be a little bit more playful. Although we have seen a lot of different things go through each year. I I it's art to me. I'm always I always enjoy watching the drama behind the Met Gala and how people feel about either the topic or like the whatever Anna Winter says, the what's it called? I'm drawing a blank. But whatever there's however they're supposed to be dressed. Yeah, their theme, their theme. Whatever the theme is for that year. So I do feel like, you know, fashion is ⁓ an art form. I always believe that it's theatrical. That's why I always gravitate towards it. And it's your own perception of that art. So speaker-0: A protocol. speaker-1: Even though there are things on the carpet that I wouldn't ever wear or I would question, I just I definitely enjoy seeing what people bring to the carpet. And it has changed over, you know, the years. So but for Vegas to bring that balance, I think it goes back to again what is going on on the strip is not how the locals are real. Do we go to this strip? Absolutely. I love going to the strip. I absolutely love it. But I do dress a little differently when I go to the strip than when I'm in Summerlin. You know, I put on all the jazz on the strip, and you can get away with being a little bit crazy or or expressive in your fashion on the strip because anything goes there, right? Even no shoes. Stop doing that though. We don't agree with this. speaker-0: Are you walking you're walking to where bear foot? speaker-1: No, me never. I would rather my feet bleed all the way down Las Vegas Boulevard. speaker-0: I I think people should see what's been dumped on those sidewalks. speaker-1: They don't care. They don't care. But I do think that I do think the locals live differently than what this strip is is giving our reputation as. You know, what we're doing off this strip is w there are so many entrepreneurs and business owners, doctors, lawyers, teachers. We have everything here. So to judge the locals and and how we live based on what's happening on the strip is just it doesn't it doesn't match. speaker-0: You know, you it's funny, you use the word judge. I actually find that if there's judgments, it's coming from the outside looking in. I actually think Las Vegas is one of the most non-judgmental places I've ever been on planet Earth. Yeah. People here, it's kind of live and let live. ⁓ there's not they just don't they they just don't immediately jump to conclusions on I I just found speaker-1: Totally agree. That's why I felt when I moved to Vegas, I was like, I to I felt like home because I I could like I said, I could express myself however I wanted to. I could dress b coming from Iowa, if you wore a dress to go out on a Friday night. Your friends would immediately send you back into the room and be like, you cannot wear that. You can't. You cannot wear put makeup on. You cannot now I don't know what it's like now, but I'm pretty sure it's the same it's the same. Yeah. You're not gonna wear what and when I came to Vegas, I could put on thigh-high boots and slick my hair back and do the crazy, like dark, smoky eye and wear whatever I wanted to, leather pants, the whole thing. Back in Iowa, you can't do that. I think Vegas allows you to be yourself. I can't speak for everyone, but that is the that's why I love the city so much.