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5222 FARQUHAR LANE $2,875,000 ERIN MATHEWS 214.520.8300 EMATHEWS@ MATHEWS-NICHOLS.COM OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. 16 THOMAS GARZA PHOTOGRAPHY E lizabeth Ward and husband Robert Creel know retail — Creel was a designer-sports- wear buyer for Neiman Marcus, while Ward spent years in corporate retail and launched visual merchandising for 7-Eleven. Steps away from Drybar in the Shops of Highland Park, their new boutique, Elizabeth W, feels like a luxe closet of elevated basics and day-to-night staples. There are established lines (Rebecca Taylor, Joie, Current/Elliott) and emerging design- ers (Ronny Kobo, 3x1 denim, Prose & Poetry), as well as Gorjana and Pamela Love jewelry. Ward's current favorites: Alo activewear, Smythe blazers, and Tabula Rasa knitwear. Elizabeth W, 4214 Oak Lawn Ave., 214.616.9847, shopelizabethw.com. Linden Wilson SHOP TALK R affish gents will get coiffed at Taper + Tap grooming lounge, opening this month in Plano's Legacy West development. Located in the new culinary compound Leg- acy Hall, the boutique barbershop de- signed by Dallas-based Plan B Group (Sixty Vines, Bolsa, The Stoneleigh hotel's restaurant and bar) offers cuts, hot lather shaves, waxing, and color services at eight barber stations — plus local craft beers on tap. A concept from Cowboy Up Men's Salon owner Jeff Kissling, Taper + Tap is the first shop in the country to stock Baxter of California skincare, pomades, and shaving necessities. Taper + Tap, 5901 Winthrop St., Plano, tapertap.com. Linden Wilson Razor's EDGE T alk about the best way to usher in spring: Next month, the Dallas Mu- seum of Art welcomes New York artist Michael de Feo — known sim- ply as The Flower Guy — as featured speaker for the annual Art in Bloom: Power of Flowers Luncheon. De Feo's peppy street art has won him admiration from both the art and fashion worlds, with his work exhibited at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museo de Arte in San Juan, and the iconic now-shut- tered Paris bou- tique Colette. Positively BLOOMING But it was his collaboration with J. Crew in 2015 that launched de Feo: J. Crew execs spotted his flowery brushstrokes atop a bus-stop ad in Manhattan. Intrigued by the graphic, feminine vibe of a model peeking through painted petals, a collaboration was launched, which left his mark on the windows of more than 280 J. Crew stores worldwide, as well as a line of T-shirts. For Art in Bloom, de Feo has created a special work to go on the auction block benefitting DMA. Art in Bloom: Power of Flowers Luncheon, Monday, March 26, at the Dallas Museum of Art, 214.922.1800, dma.org. Christina Geyer Elizabeth W boutique Michael de Feo's Untitled (Doutzen Kroes by Duy Yo for Vogue Nederland), April 2016