Local Apparel Designers ‘Paint the Runway’ With a Flourish
Denver is cultivating a budding fashion community and all was on display at First Class Fashionista’s ‘Denver Paint the Runway’ charitable fashion show benefiting ArtReach at the Denver Art Society last weekend. Speaking to the mantra, “Fashion is art. Art is fashion,” the inaugural runway event provided a blank canvas for local design talents to...
“Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s” Through Eyes of Goodman Family Scion, Denverite Andrew Malloy
There was a buzz in the air. It was not just any day Bergdorf Goodman closed their Fifth Avenue doors early. Andrew Malloy was just a boy at the time of one of his most memorable visits to see his grandfather Andrew Goodman in New York City. Goodman continued the legacy of his father by...
Happy Glampers Part One: Camp Chic in a “Love Bubble” Airstream
glamping (noun): glamour + camping This is for all you city slickers out there. Maybe you would not be caught dead grilling a hot dog fireside, slumbering beneath the stars open-air in a sleeping bag, or fighting off mosquitoes (or the occasional bear) in the untamed American wild, yet you still have a thirst for...
Couture Décor: ‘Creative Living’ Brings Cool Back to Outdoor Living
Pink flamingos, lawn gnomes, gazing balls, toilet flower pots (real classy)—this is what al fresco living used to mean: pure kitsch. Thankfully, exterior décor has since evolved. Now your outdoor living space—whether a loft balcony or a suburban lawn—can be just as contemporary as your domicile, and Creative Living, a Denver-based “lifestyle gallery,” can help...
Denver Fashion Weekend Kicks Off With Spring Print Issue Launch
It’s time. In less than one week fashion designers, makeup artists, hair designers and avid fashionistas will all descend on Denver for a weekend chockfull of fashion—Denver’s chance to capture the fashion limelight and show “how the west is vogue.” Not only does Denver Fashion Weekend spring/summer 2013 launch April 11, but so does 303 Magazine’s...
Behind the Curtain: ESosa’s Designs for ‘Sense & Sensibility The Musical’
“Choose love.” Enter into the romantic and comedic world Jane Austen invented of the Dashwood sisters: one woman who leads with her head (sense), and the other vulnerability for her heart (sensibility). Costume designer ESosa encapsulates these antithetical personalities as they quest for love in his costuming of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s musical adaptation...
Couture Décor: Scentscape for Spring With Archipelago’s Candles
No one holds a candle to Archipelago Botanical’s soy wax flambeaus. And for their spring 2013 collection, they are pulling out all of the stops. Yes, welcome to the world where candles are unveiled in collections just like apparel — the world of candle perfumery. Archipelago (www.archipelago-usa.com), an international company, “where warm candlelight, exquisite fragrance...
Beauty Is Pain: The Stilett“O” Series by Omar Angel Perez
High heels, pumps, stilettos, sadistic torture devices—whatever your perspective about the high heel shoe—love them or hate them—women and men have been falling head over heels (most often literally) for this aptly named shoe, eponymous for the stiletto dagger, since the 16th century royal court. Fashions oscillate between extremes and Houston-based artisan Omar Angel Perez,...
Trend & True: Jewelry Designer Marco Bicego Gives Glimpse Into ‘Made in Italy’
A pair of mandolin and acoustic guitar players strum amorously above a hum of lively chatter as patrons pour over Italian-made jewels—diamonds and precious gemstones beset in hand-engraved gold, a craft steeped in atelier tradition. Although it sounds like the scene of a shopping mercato in an Italian city center, it was the sight of...
Couture Décor: 7 Tips to Buying Art for Your Home
There are three types of people who amble into art galleries: those who are educated about art, those who are not, and those who pretend to be. I do not know about you, but I fit into the second category. I know so little I would not even attempt to feign being an art connoisseur....
Couture Décor: Local Mompreneurs Take Ingenuity Beyond the Home With Chalk Paint
With seven children and 30 pigments of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint® to juggle between them, business owners Becky Georgiades and Andrea Miner have their work cut out for them. They are one-time stay-at-home mothers, best friends and owners of a boutique, yet they handle the balancing act with style and grace — the same way in which they paint. The mompreneurs make up...
Couture Décor: Meredith Nicole, Storytelling Through Wood Grain
“LOVE,” “FAITH,” “STRENGTH” – these were the carved inscriptions hidden in the underbelly of a massive, wooden family dining table in France – the words, a chilling memory of its World War II history. During the war, German soldiers occupied the French family’s home where the table resided. Seizing the home for two weeks, the...
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