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Roman Holiday

100 Colorado Creatives: Sahar Pazirandeh

#76: Sahar Pazirandeh Sahar Pazirandeh left Iran with her family in the late '80s, when she was nine years old, in the wake of changes that followed the ancient nation's Islamic revolution. She'd spent her early years in the grip of Iran's new fundamentalist face; her own mother, a former IBM execu ... More >>

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 >>

Frock Shop Spring Sample Sale offers bargain-priced apparel by local designers

At this year's Frock Shop Spring Sample Sale, savvy shoppers will get to browse though pieces by both established and up-and-coming designers in Colorado. Now in its second year, Frock Shop -- the brainchild of Colorado State University apparel and merchandising graduate Katie Gartner -- brings toge ... More >>

Meet five designers showing at Frost: Fashion Denver's Holiday Market

Over the past eight years, Frost: Fashion Denver's Holiday Market has established itself as more than a gathering place for local vendors: It's also it's a hot spot for designers looking to connect with stylish buyers. In fact, the marketplace -- going down this Sunday, December 16, at the Grant-Hum ... More >>

Find Cool Looks at Frost

Now Showing: A Westword guide to the arts in Denver

Calling female fashion designers: Athena Project's theater/design crossover competition

Athena Project's Plays in Progress series is now in full swing, and while the plays are only getting a workshop treatment, one of them will win a full production at next spring's Athena Project Festival -- and that means it will need a costume designer. Cue the festival's newest opportunity: a fas ... More >>

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, June 1-3, 2012

It's should be a beautiful weekend in the neighborhood, and not just because there's a Mister Rogers-themed exhibit opening. From yoga in the park to yet another adult prom to a variety of innovative art shows, this weekend is full of things to do that won't cost more than $10. So get out there, enj ... More >>

Swap the old and shop the new with Fast Geek Boutique and the Frock Shop Sample Sale

What's better than scoring a perfectly fitting designer dress or a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes on a shopping expedition? Snagging the good stuff at a decent price -- or, even better, for free. This weekend, Fast Geek Boutique will host its first-ever Spring Cleaning Clothing Swap and Fashion Denver ... 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."

Attention, Denver designers: Scissors ready! Frock Out goes down with the Titanic in April

Here's something to ponder in 2012: The new year will mark, among other things, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. And, as Chris Loffelmacher of the Denver Public Library's Fresh City Life program points out, "How often does a shipwreck turn 100?" That's why, when Loffelmacher ro ... More >>

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 >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, December 9-11, 2011

If shopping for holiday gifts has left your wallet looking a little thin, don't worry. We've compiled a list of things to do for less then a Hamilton this weekend so you don't have to sit inside and lament buying your sweetheart that ridiculously priced present. Bid farewell to the MCA pigeons, enjo ... More >>

Tinsel Town

Making History

Letting Off Sparks

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 >>

Over the Weekend: Create Denver Week's Your Sunday Best was a cake walk into town

A little romance from Fashion Denver.​The last leg of Create Denver Week was by no means an afterthought: Rather, Your Sunday Best, for which Fashion Denver's Sprout spring market and the Denver Handmade Alliance's Crafty Ballyhoo shared quarters at the Grant-Humphreys mansion, was rife with g ... More >>

This One's for the Girls

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, March 4-6, 2011

​Apparently March didn't get the memo that it's supposed to come in like a lion, because the last week has been relatively beautiful out and closer to the lamb-like status we're supposed to having at the end of the month. Whatever, the mountain's loss is our gain, as we'll be able to enjoy ple ... More >>

Get The Red Out

Photos: Fashion Denver Anniversary Bash, 2/4/11

​Friday night, February 4, 2011 was Fashion Denver's anniversary party, marking eleven years in business and one year at its Bannock Street location. Local designers and music were offered to those who hit up this free public party. Photos by Hunter Stevens. See the full slideshow.

10 things to do for $10 this Super Bowl weekend, February 4-6, 2011

If you're annoyed by the Super Bowl, you've got options this weekend.​After a week of cold and snow, Friday couldn't have come soon enough. It's a good thing it's the first of the month too, because that means there is plenty to do for folks willing to venture off into the chilly night. It als ... More >>

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 >>

They've Got the Look

Show Your Colors

Locals Growing

MasterMind alumni brainstorm about the state of the arts in Denver

New Blood at Buntport

The Dailies Show

Scales of Fashion

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

Local Designer Jonathan Applegate

Project Holiday

Art in the City Afterhours Party

What to Wear Friday: Brandi Shigley

A DIY Birthday: Fancy Tiger Turns 1

What You Missed: I Heart Fashion at La Rumba

The Week In Fashion: May 30 - June 5

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Spring Fever

The Seed show is sweet and succulent.

2005 MasterMind Awards

On the Prowl

On the Prowl

Somebody Call the 5-0

A party this fun has got to be illegal.