“Cabin on The Grasslands is where I met my best friend, Brooklyn Caldwell. Cabin is a place where I got to create my dream photoshoot. That shoot was something I wanted to do for five years. This included over 14 female models and supported female employment in a way that I wasn’t expecting.” (Morin, Claire. Personal Interview 30 October 2019). In 2017, Remy Lewbel and the TREND45 team took their event to Ohio. Remy Lewbel was quoted, “I have always wanted to expand. They always told me it was too early, but it’s a legacy we were trying to grow” (Lewbel, Remy. Paul Matthew Media Podcast. 19 November 2019). Remy Lewbel never had any financial investment in the starting months. Lewbel has always born a risk-taker, whether it was maxing out credit cards on the front end. He believed in a dream so resolutely, to accomplish what no one had tried before. “This event was special to me because I brought a photographer along who I had done production with…” Sydney Irene worked with Remy and Karen Paz-Labra on a music video in Columbus, Ohio, earlier that month. “… I loved her work and from the start I admired her vision. To have someone you admire tell you they believe your dreams was incredible, I can’t even express that feeling” ((Lewbel, Remy, Personal Interview. 28 July 2020). Connections weren’t visible at this point; guests were sleeping in bunk beds while dreaming of sleeping in villas. The Cabin in Aberdeen was a rustic hunting lodge with exposed timbers and a wrap-around porch. “First event at Cabin on The Grasslands? Shit was messy! (Chuckles) I found out the night before we left that I couldn’t rent a van because of my age. Well actually, I still can’t! (Laughs)…So my mom bussed 15 people out there from Detroit and drove them back. Mama Lewbel came in and saved the day! At that time in TREND45’s infancy, we couldn’t afford a video team. It was only a one night the event but I promised we would be back.” (Lewbel, Remy, Personal Interview. 28 July 2020)). Lewbel returned to Aberdeen, Ohio, in June of 2018 for Cabin on the Grasslands II. “This time we brought 3 DJ’s, a chef and 50 creatives to a cabin for the weekend. The house was on some 100 acres and the house was a good 8,000 square feet with an obsessive number of bedrooms. So, it was fucking amazing” (Lewbel, Remy, Personal Interview. 28 July 2020). Lewbel was creating a massive amount of notice in the creative community stretching from Indiana, Ohio, and all over Michigan. Lewbel’s team was just getting stronger. In the next couple of months, Remy Lewbel would change his life forever. “Creating events was the fun part. We were building something that we didn’t even fully understand yet. That was .5, this is only 1%.” (Nguyen, Jimmy. Personal Interview. 12 May 2020).