With the rapid growth of the Nashville Fashion Alliance and Nashville Fashion Week, people are starting to gain a better understanding of the rich, burgeoning fashion industry in Nashville. Designer Poni Silver, the woman behind Black by Maria Silver, showed in the very first NFW in 2012, and each of her collections has offered adventurous yet affordable styles for the modern woman. Anyone who has purchased a BBMS piece knows how wearable and fun it is, and isn’t that what fashion should be about? Check out her store in East Nashville’s Idea Hatchery. ABBY WHITE

