Brandi Shigley

Nearer, My God, to Thee

MasterMind Awards honor our eighth class of artistic entrepreneurs

On Saturday night, Westword introduced the eighth class of MasterMinds -- artistic entrepreneurs who are changing the cultural landscape. Since we started the program, we have given more than $130,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations. The latest winners (click on the link for profiles): M ... More >>

Brandi Shigley closes Fashion Denver boutique, opens new chapter

Fashion Denver owner Brandi Shigley encourages others to do just as she is doing: "Focus on your focus."

Fashion Denver's Brandi Shigley is taking her own advice to do what she loves 24/7

​Brandi Shigley could be our Westword MasterMind poster girl: Civic-minded and an ever-positive dynamo on the local style scene, the Fashion Denver founder lives up to the very definition of a MasterMind in a way that truly befits a member of the inaugural 2005 creative class. Back then, she w ... More >>

The Show Goes On

​Brandi Shigley could be our Westword MasterMind poster girl: Civic-minded and an ever-positive dynamo on the local style scene, the Fashion Denver founder lives up to the very definition of a MasterMind in a way that truly befits a member of the inaugural 2005 creative class. Back then, she w ... More >>

Tinsel Town

​Brandi Shigley could be our Westword MasterMind poster girl: Civic-minded and an ever-positive dynamo on the local style scene, the Fashion Denver founder lives up to the very definition of a MasterMind in a way that truly befits a member of the inaugural 2005 creative class. Back then, she w ... More >>

Making History

​Brandi Shigley could be our Westword MasterMind poster girl: Civic-minded and an ever-positive dynamo on the local style scene, the Fashion Denver founder lives up to the very definition of a MasterMind in a way that truly befits a member of the inaugural 2005 creative class. Back then, she w ... More >>

Sparkopolis at Anythink Wright Farms: On beyond books, with bells and whistles

Anythink Wright Farms, a library like no other.​Ever since the Rangeview Library District changed its name to "Anythink," something peculiar's been going on: The locals began to embrace their libraries like never before, and once you step inside Anythink Wright Farms, way up north on 120th Ave ... More >>

B.Sue

Moon Whales
Self-released

Letting Off Sparks

Moon Whales
Self-released

Review: The Don'ts and Be Carefuls at Hi-Dive, 9/9/11

Tom MurphyThe Don'ts and Be Carefuls​THE DON'TS AND BE CAREULS at the HI-DIVE | 9/9/11 The Don'ts and Be Carefuls did something at this "Triple EP Release" show that you just knew the band had in it but you might not expect to see: they fused the exuberance and innocence of its original sound ... More >>

Brandi Shigley of B.Sue on her love of music and fashion and the new spelling of b.sous to B. Sue

Brandi Shigley: "Don't you just loooove looove?" ​Fashion Designer, musician, entrepreneur, public speaker and downright cool broad are but a few of the words that describe Brandi Shigley (due with B.Sue tonight at the hi-dive for a triple EP release show). The first time I came in contact wit ... More >>

This One's for the Girls

Brandi Shigley: "Don't you just loooove looove?" ​Fashion Designer, musician, entrepreneur, public speaker and downright cool broad are but a few of the words that describe Brandi Shigley (due with B.Sue tonight at the hi-dive for a triple EP release show). The first time I came in contact wit ... More >>

Westword welcomes its seventh class of MasterMinds

Brandi Shigley: "Don't you just loooove looove?" ​Fashion Designer, musician, entrepreneur, public speaker and downright cool broad are but a few of the words that describe Brandi Shigley (due with B.Sue tonight at the hi-dive for a triple EP release show). The first time I came in contact wit ... More >>

Fashionista Extravaganza

Brandi Shigley: "Don't you just loooove looove?" ​Fashion Designer, musician, entrepreneur, public speaker and downright cool broad are but a few of the words that describe Brandi Shigley (due with B.Sue tonight at the hi-dive for a triple EP release show). The first time I came in contact wit ... More >>

Style Local: Brandi Shigley, Fashion Denver

Brandi in Lily Bell.​Denver fashion maven Brandi Shigley is all bounce and determination; even when she cries (yes, even the most cheerful people lose it once in awhile amid the trials of entrepreneurship: After vandals broke a window at Shigley's Fashion Denver boutique and headquarters last ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Fashion Denver's Vixen holiday market

Brandi Shigley at Vixen.​You haven't really experienced the holidays until you've seen the historic and elegant Grant-Humphreys mansion on Quality Hill in seasonal dress, with poinsettias lining the grand staircase and light streaming into the first-floor sunroom. That was the setting last Sun ... More >>

Absurdist Interview: Fashion designer Raphael Lobello

Fresh couture​Fashion Denver's in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is ... More >>

Show Your Colors

Fresh couture​Fashion Denver's in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is ... More >>

Creating Denver

Fresh couture​Fashion Denver's in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is ... More >>

Size Is Better

Fresh couture​Fashion Denver's in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is ... More >>

New Blood at Buntport

Fresh couture​Fashion Denver's in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is ... More >>

Kenny Be's Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #38 Ubaldo Jimenez

What do you get when you cross(dress) the Colorado Rockies in the latest creations of Denver fashion designers? A series of baseball cards for the Colorado Frockies: the boys of summer dresses. #38 Ubaldo Jimenez as dressed by Brandi Shigley...

Best Foot Forward

DAVA youth concentrate on fashion design in the latest show.

Sun Dressing

Spring forward at Fashion Denver’s latest market.

Meet the MasterMinds: Year 1

The Denver Zine Library's Kristy Fenton won the 2005 literary-arts award. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going -- and growing -- five years ago, Westword created the MasterMind Awards, a program that honors five cultural visionaries who are working t ... More >>

Aria Ready?

Dress to impress at Fashion of Desire.

Night & Day featured event: Spontaneous Combustion

 Denver style maven Brandi Shigley, who grew up on a steady diet of musicals and variety shows like Hee Haw and The Muppet Show, is still an admitted fan: "So when the opportunity came up to host my own evening at the Meadowlark, I decided to make it be this colorful concoction of talent all i ... More >>

Scales of Fashion

The LIBRA Fall Fashion Market showcases Denver’s best designers.

In It to Win It

The LIBRA Fall Fashion Market showcases Denver’s best designers.

Classic Lines

Tricia Hayworth reconstructs vintage clothes.

Previous MasterMind: Brandi Shigley

Tricia Hayworth reconstructs vintage clothes.

Class of 2008

Here are the other six artists worth keeping an eye on this year.

Project Holiday

Here are the other six artists worth keeping an eye on this year.

Shine On

The creative breakup of former business collaborators leads to one new magazine, with another on the way. Can the city support both of them?

Frock Out Denver: A Call for Designers

The creative breakup of former business collaborators leads to one new magazine, with another on the way. Can the city support both of them?

What to Wear Friday: Brandi Shigley

The creative breakup of former business collaborators leads to one new magazine, with another on the way. Can the city support both of them?

Fashion Overload: It's Time for Some New Looks

The creative breakup of former business collaborators leads to one new magazine, with another on the way. Can the city support both of them?

UACK Transitions into Spring

The creative breakup of former business collaborators leads to one new magazine, with another on the way. Can the city support both of them?

UACK Transitions into Spring

The creative breakup of former business collaborators leads to one new magazine, with another on the way. Can the city support both of them?

Spring Fever

The Seed show is sweet and succulent.

2005 MasterMind Awards

The Seed show is sweet and succulent.

What to Wear Fridays: Brandi Shigley

The Seed show is sweet and succulent.

What to Wear Fridays: Brandi Shigley

The Seed show is sweet and succulent.

Grrls, Grrls, Grrls

The SuicideGirls are ready to torch the town.

Day-by-Day Picks

From the week of September 22, 2005

Talking Shop

At Petite Patoot, the deals come in small sizes.

Needed Needles

The Christmas Tree House is fir real

Real Life

Gallery M takes a trip down memory lane

Best Local Purse Designer

Brandi Shigley