Reese — an Academy-award winning actress, producer, activist and entrepreneur — launched Draper James in 2015. The brand features upscale women’s clothing and accessories, as well as accents for the home, available through its website as well as brick-and-mortar locations in Nashville, Dallas, Lexington, KY, and Atlanta. Draper James also partners on “capsule collections” with Crate & Barrel, iconic shoe designer Jack Rogers, Nordstrom, Net-A-Porter and Eloquii.

The founder named the company after her grandparents, Dorothea Draper and William James Witherspoon who, says Reese, “taught me everything I know about gracious Southern living.”