Fashion Fridays – Neo Neon
When I think of neon, I think 80′s almost immediately. I picture my green neon skort paired with a hypercolor shirt with the side looped through one of those plastic dodads (how did those even come to be popular anyway?), a bright pink scrunchie and highlighter yellow laces woven threw my high-tops. While I look...
Style Porn: Feathery Accessories
While birds of a feather may flock together, one Boulder-based jewelry designer is making feathered accessories that’ll make you stand out from the crowd. Liliana Aguilar, who started an Etsy shop called Plooms, has always had a passion for creating handmade objects. And when she came across a pair of feather earrings at a local...
Fashion Fridays – Sisterhood of the Traveling Jewels
This week the fashion community was captivated by the annual Met Gala, which introduces a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and attracts celebrities and fashion elite. Though I’ve spent hours looking at photos, analyzing and gawking, I’m not going to talk about it today. If you haven’t yet seen...
Gift Guru: Last Minute Mother’s Day Presents
Last year you promised yourself you wouldn’t do it again, you wouldn’t wait until Saturday night to buy a sub-par gift for mom and instead you would find the perfect thing a month in advance. Well, you broke your promise to yourself and here you are two days before Mother’s Day with nothing to put...
Style Porn: Spotlight on Art and Fashion
Art and fashion often go hand-in-hand, and these two loves are being drawn together once again at the Santa Fe by Design fashion show. Taking place on May 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hangar 41 Art Gallery, the show will spotlight local designers alongside artwork in an amazing local space. The fashion...
Fashion Fridays – Goldyn Menswear Launch
If not for his fedora hat, leather luggage or studded Christian Louboutin loafers paired under thrifted denim, a fashionable man can be easily identified by his shopping behavior. Watch him refund his own tax refund on a strip mall shopping spree, and his taste may be questionable. See him waltz, however, into a local, service-oriented,...
Style Porn: Gem of Larimer Square
The driving force that led Blue Ruby Boutique Owner, Julie Watson, to open a second location in Larimer Square (the first opened in Littleton in August 2009) was simply the love of fashion. And, hey, we can relate. “I love the fun of it,” she says. “I love the customers and the stories they tell....
Style Porn: Full Steam Ahead for Frock Out’s Stephanie Ohnmacht
Frock Out 2012: Come Undone took place on April 19 at the Denver Central Library, featuring a Titanic theme inspired by the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Co-produced by Fashion Denver’s Brandi Shigley and Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life, the evening included a VIP pre-show...
Fahion Fridays – Eco Chic
It’s as if the word “green” has become so trendy it’s commonplace; almost to the point that we don’t even notice how extraordinary the idea of being ecological is after years of pursuing unsustainable practices. But being green is no fleeting fad; this is fashion’s future. In honor of Earth Day this Sunday, I thought...
Style Porn: Denver Hotels Offer Special YSL Packages
If you haven’t checked out Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective at the Denver Art Museum, now is the time to do so. The exhibition will be at the DAM from March 25 through July 8, covering the designer’s 40-year fashion career. Denver is the only U.S. city to be showing this popular exhibition, which includes...
Fashion Fridays – Flea Market Finds
Who doesn’t love a good deal? We all do! But at what point does the time, effort and patience to find a gem among ordinary stones become just too much? Recently, I tested my deal patience by scouring Los Angeles’ flea markets. They’re a big deal here – a customary shopping event, even. And what...
Fashion Fridays – Summer Soles
After a typical routine of typical errands on a typical Spring afternoon, something, well, atypical happened. Somewhere between the first sip of mid-day macchiatto and Lawrence Street, I met my match: another tall, too-skinny hooligan walking along 16th Street Mall, flaunting his flamboyant style in stride. With envious eyes, I scanned his studded denim and...
