Fair Game
ELLE|January 2018

Emily Current and Meritt Elliott head to Texas’s Round Top Antiques Fair in search of design inspiration. Spoiler alert: They don’t go home empty-handed.

Lauren Smith Ford
Fair Game

In early October, while the fashion world transplanted itself to the runways of Paris, Emily Current and Meritt Elliott, the celebrity stylists–turned–designers, found themselves in Round Top, a speck of a town in the Texas Hill Country, for the triannual Round Top Antiques Fair—a Texas institution since 1968. Three times a year, the one-stoplight community—situated between Austin and Houston, and with a population of less than 100—transforms itself into a whirling dervish of fashion and design inspiration. It’s in this itty-bitty piece of rural Texas that 200,000 shoppers and 6,000 antiques dealers hawking everything from vintage Stetsons to high-end European antiques convene on a jam-packed 20-mile stretch of barns and tent-filled cow pastures. Originally a place for in-the-know antiquers, Round Top (which recently added a third show to its calendar due to popular demand) has become a more mainstream destination over the last decade as buyers from Anthropologie and Restoration Hardware started making the journey for inspiration and store-display propping.

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