Brandi Shigley

Westword Book Club: Brandi Shigley focuses on the essential and eliminates the rest

This week, Westword asked fashionista Brandi Shigley about her favorite books. The interview was fittingly conducted in front of an adorable lofted book shelf, which Shigley refers to as her treehouse, at Fashion Denver, her combination boutique, studio, consulting office, and mini roller-s ... More >>

Roman Holiday

Photos: Paninaro Rewind brings throwback fashion down the runway at Tony P's

Dreamer, doer and Westword Mastermind Brandi Shigley is at it again, this time pairing up with restaurateurTony Pasquini. This Saturday and Sunday, Pasquini's Tony P's will host Paninaro Rewind, Shigley's fashionable take on the restaurant's already popular Discko Paninaro, an '80s throwback dance p ... More >>

Meet the eight local designers and boutiques showing at Westword's Whiteout Fashion Show

A precursor to Westword's signature Artopia on February 23, tonight's Whiteout Fashion Show caps the Art of Winter by putting the spotlight on local couture. This inaugural fashion display features clothing and accessories from Westword MasterMinds Brandi Shigley, Mona Lucero and Deb Hendriksen of E ... More >>

Think White

100 Colorado Creatives: Dreamer, doer and Westword Whiteout designer Brandi Shigley

#96 Brandi Shigley A relentlessly positive and hardworking jack-of-all-trades, Brandi Shigley has become synonymous with Denver fashion. The local couture guru, musician and small business owner was part of the first class of Westword MasterMinds in 2005, and she recently reactivated her handbag des ... More >>

Win tickets to Westword's Whiteout Fashion Show!

February's Whiteout Fashion Show is Westword's newest signature event, and it's a big one. On February 7, we'll take over the McNichols Building with live performance art, a runway show full of winter fashions and food and cocktails from an array of local vendors. It will be a night of both style an ... More >>

Win tickets to Westword's Whiteout Fashion Show!

February's Whiteout Fashion Show is Westword's newest signature event, and it's a big one. On February 7, we'll take over the McNichols Building with live performance art, a runway show full of winter fashions and food and cocktails from an array of local vendors. It will be a night of both style an ... More >>

Find Cool Looks at Frost

Get Your Bounce On

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 >>

Tinsel Town

Making History

B.Sue

Moon Whales
Self-released

Letting Off Sparks

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

Fashionista Extravaganza

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 >>

Creating Denver

Size Is Better

New Blood at Buntport

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...

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

Previous MasterMind: Brandi Shigley

Project Holiday

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?

What to Wear Friday: Brandi Shigley

Fashion Overload: It's Time for Some New Looks

UACK Transitions into Spring

UACK Transitions into Spring

2005 MasterMind Awards

What to Wear Fridays: Brandi Shigley

What to Wear Fridays: Brandi Shigley

Grrls, Grrls, Grrls

The SuicideGirls are ready to torch the town.

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