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The Week In Fashion: July 11 Through July 16

Clothes Call

Balloon Blowout

Tonight: Recycle Runway

Fashion at 5 Degrees

Over the Weekend: Forever Darling II Fashion Show

Over the Weekend: Punk Rock Fashion, Wish Nightclub, and some music to burn your ears off

Film and fashion at the Toofy Film Fest

Get Your Art On

Clothes Call

The Denver Public Library gets fashion-forward with Prototype.

Ab Fab

Fall fashion and charity are all the rage at Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous!

Home Sweet HomeAid

High couture meets big hearts at the HomeAid Fashion Show.

Sew Stylish

Fort Collins hosts a fashion week for fiber freaks.

A Block of Fresh Air

Fort Collins hosts a fashion week for fiber freaks.

By a Thread

Fort Collins hosts a fashion week for fiber freaks.

Party Arty

Fort Collins hosts a fashion week for fiber freaks.

Fabric Fiesta

Help celebrate the Fabric Lab's fifth birthday.

Paper Dolls

Help celebrate the Fabric Lab's fifth birthday.

Simply Smashin' Fashion

Help celebrate the Fabric Lab's fifth birthday.

Passion for Fashion

Fort Collins makes its mark on the style map.

Solid Gold

The mannequins will be the only ones not moving during False Idols.

Milan Calling

The mannequins will be the only ones not moving during False Idols.

2007 Artopia Schedule

The mannequins will be the only ones not moving during False Idols.

Oohs and Arrrghs

Fashion show hoists fetish style

Playing With Dolls

Jim Narcy’s photography turns ordinary women into pin-up beauties.

This weekend's featured events: Get ready for a weekend that's all about fashion and costumery, street art and street deals

"Monday ain't a fun day/Tuesday's a goof day/Wednesdays are frenzy/Thursday's the worst day/Friday is great/'Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend." Brit rocker Dave Edmunds surely had the working class pegged when he wrote those words back in the ´70s, and it hasn't much changed. So pop those ... More >>

Here Comes the Weekend

"Monday ain't a fun day/Tuesday's a goof day/Wednesdays are frenzy/Thursday's the worst day/Friday is great/'Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend." Brit rocker Dave Edmunds surely had the working class pegged when he wrote those words back in the ´70s, and it hasn't much changed. So pop those ... More >>

Topless fashion show in teen hangout? Art Cormier-owned Mr. Biggs may be in big trouble

The Lucky Strike Bar at Mr. Biggs, in a photo from the center's website.​Art Cormier's name has popped up plenty of times in Westword over the years. Take this 2005 piece about the Regency Hotel, a once-elegant joint turned into a nexus for neighborhood complaints under Cormier's ownership. N ... More >>

A Style of Her Own

The Lucky Strike Bar at Mr. Biggs, in a photo from the center's website.​Art Cormier's name has popped up plenty of times in Westword over the years. Take this 2005 piece about the Regency Hotel, a once-elegant joint turned into a nexus for neighborhood complaints under Cormier's ownership. N ... More >>

A Touch of Class

The Lucky Strike Bar at Mr. Biggs, in a photo from the center's website.​Art Cormier's name has popped up plenty of times in Westword over the years. Take this 2005 piece about the Regency Hotel, a once-elegant joint turned into a nexus for neighborhood complaints under Cormier's ownership. N ... More >>

Contest: Comment on this and win free tix to the Volunteers of America Holiday Fashion Show

Last year's show. Sexy!​Before you even say anything, we already know: It's probably the most boring name for a fashion show ever, and it also makes us think of homeless people. And that's a shame, because The Volunteers of America Holiday Fashion Show is just as haute and sleek as any show wi ... More >>

This Weekend: Mona Lucero's "Felliniesque" fashion show channels the gorgeous surreal

Mona gets her Fellini on at a dress rehearsal.​ When I think of Fellini's film Juliet of the Spirits, I think of beautiful women in big hats on the beach -- the gorgeous surreal. When local designer Mona Lucero chose "Felliniesque" as the theme for her boutique's eighth-anniversary fashion sh ... More >>

Girls Gone Wild

Mona gets her Fellini on at a dress rehearsal.​ When I think of Fellini's film Juliet of the Spirits, I think of beautiful women in big hats on the beach -- the gorgeous surreal. When local designer Mona Lucero chose "Felliniesque" as the theme for her boutique's eighth-anniversary fashion sh ... More >>

Get The Red Out

Mona gets her Fellini on at a dress rehearsal.​ When I think of Fellini's film Juliet of the Spirits, I think of beautiful women in big hats on the beach -- the gorgeous surreal. When local designer Mona Lucero chose "Felliniesque" as the theme for her boutique's eighth-anniversary fashion sh ... More >>

Beauty and Beasts

Mona gets her Fellini on at a dress rehearsal.​ When I think of Fellini's film Juliet of the Spirits, I think of beautiful women in big hats on the beach -- the gorgeous surreal. When local designer Mona Lucero chose "Felliniesque" as the theme for her boutique's eighth-anniversary fashion sh ... More >>

Pulp Fashion

Mona gets her Fellini on at a dress rehearsal.​ When I think of Fellini's film Juliet of the Spirits, I think of beautiful women in big hats on the beach -- the gorgeous surreal. When local designer Mona Lucero chose "Felliniesque" as the theme for her boutique's eighth-anniversary fashion sh ... More >>

Paper, scissors, mohawk: Paper Fashion Show 2011

Photo: Hunter StevensBack stage at the Paper Fashion Show last night.​Feathers. Coral. Corsets. All made of paper, all on display last night at the Paper Fashion Show competition at City Hall in downtown Denver. With over 60 jaw-dropping entries, the Paper Fashion Show was a spectacle unlike a ... More >>

Denver’s Got Style!

Photo: Hunter StevensBack stage at the Paper Fashion Show last night.​Feathers. Coral. Corsets. All made of paper, all on display last night at the Paper Fashion Show competition at City Hall in downtown Denver. With over 60 jaw-dropping entries, the Paper Fashion Show was a spectacle unlike a ... More >>

Tonight's Gorinto at the Mercury Cafe: Now bigger, better and with more Fugazi

​Tonight, the Mercury Cafe's (2199 California St.) food and entertainment throwdown Gorinto does it again -- but even bigger this time. Along with its usual eclectic dinner spread and live music offerings, the celebration will host a fashion show from recycled clothiers Buffalo Exchange. The line- ... More >>

TACtile gets all steamed up for a steampunk exhibit and fashion show

A steampunk bracelet by Jean Campbell.​If you've ever wondered what the future meets the past looks like, you might call to mind the antics of Marty McFly and the wonder DeLorean in the middle of the wild, wild west, or perhaps a robot tromping through the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. You'd be ... More >>

This weekend: Teller Elementary says, "Hey, let's put on a show!"

A Melissa May design.​Congress Park's Teller Elementary School already marches to a different drum when it comes to fundraising: Instead of hosting yet another carnival or bake sale, Teller has Tellerpalooza, for instance: an annual family-friendly night of live music at the Mercury Cafe. And ... More >>

Win a VIP upgrade to the Sweet Life Fashion Show

​Life really is sweet at the Sweet Life Fashion Show, the annual benefit for Volunteers of America that features fall catwalk collections from an array of designers, along with appetizers, desserts and a party gift (and that's just general admission). The bash is back again -- bigger and bette ... More >>

In Stitches

​Life really is sweet at the Sweet Life Fashion Show, the annual benefit for Volunteers of America that features fall catwalk collections from an array of designers, along with appetizers, desserts and a party gift (and that's just general admission). The bash is back again -- bigger and bette ... More >>

Reader: Red Ball Fashion Show paints the town red!

Jim Wills​The Red Ball Fashion Show filled the Exdo Event Center with good times and great fashions on Sunday night -- and all for an excellent cause, the Colorado Aids Project. CPagano was there:

Myth and Magic

Jim Wills​The Red Ball Fashion Show filled the Exdo Event Center with good times and great fashions on Sunday night -- and all for an excellent cause, the Colorado Aids Project. CPagano was there:

Dressed In Layers

Jim Wills​The Red Ball Fashion Show filled the Exdo Event Center with good times and great fashions on Sunday night -- and all for an excellent cause, the Colorado Aids Project. CPagano was there:

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 >>