Mona Lucero

100 Colorado Creatives: Charlie Boots

#68: Charlie Boots Who is Charlie Boots? Yesterday you might not have known his name, but today Boots (aka Aaron Mulligan) is ready for his closeup. The young artist will make his public debut this weekend as the first-ever visual-arts fellow of the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program at P ... More >>

Facebook portraits of artists: A local gallery

One reason we return to Facebook again and again is to look at the pictures --and to share them, too. But when artists join in that endlessly unfolding online scrapbook, things really start to get interesting. Following are some of our favorite FB portraits of Colorado artists. See also: - Denver T ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (7 free!), April 19-21

Yes, weed is now legal in Colorado. And yes, this weekend is the giant 4/20 celebration. But that doesn't mean that all the fun will be in Civic Center Park.From an alternative 4/20 celebration with music and comedy to Record Store Day to a free theater performance, this weekend is full of events th ... 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 >>

Powerhaus Studio announces its PAIR artist-in-residence program for artists and designers

What do Westword MasterMinds do once they've been so designated? Sometimes, maybe even often, they find ways to spread it around and pay it forward, by offering opportunities to young artists and designers just coming up. And that's exactly what the three dedicated MasterMinds who comprise Powerhaü ... 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 >>

100 Colorado Creatives: Couture staple and Westword Whiteout designer Mona Lucero

#95 Mona Lucero For two decades, Mona Lucero has been making her mark on the Denver fashion scene with innovative design and a constant stream of new work. A former independent shop owner -- her store closed in late 2012 after a ten-year run -- the Westword MasterMind puts just as much effort into u ... 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 >>

Powerhaüs Studios is ready for its closeup, and its first First-Friday open house

It's more than a little eponymous when three Westword MasterMinds decide to share a studio, but that's just what's happened: Fine artists Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and Jimmy Sellars and fashion designer Mona Lucero, all in a state of career flux, have thrown their fortunes together at Powerhaüs Studios, ... More >>

The arts in Denver: Ten people to watch in 2013

The Denver Art Museum was on a roll in 2012 and it isn't slowing down in the new year, with exhibits showcasing Georgia O'Keeffe and Nick Cave's Soundsuits on their way. At MCA Denver, the Ladies Fancywork Society will soon have its day in the sun its own exhibition. The folks at the Denver County F ... More >>

Classic Style

Dressed to Impress

The Fashion Association of Denver: More than a passing FAD

Late last year, spurred by a seeming disconnect among many factions of the local fashion world, style mavens Kathy Bacon and Mona Lucero put their heads together with Ginger White Brunetti of Create Denver and Stephanie Blake of Blake Communications to investigate the concept of a unified fashion bo ... More >>

Sunday in RiNo: A mirrored fun house, unicorn sightings and hot metal

It was quieter in RiNo yesterday than you'd expect, considering there was a studio tour and a RiNo hunt going on for the last day of Create Denver. But it was nonetheless a perfect day to explore, and whether or not you discovered one of the 100 numbered ceramic rhinos left out for tourists to find ... More >>

On the runway at the Denver Art Museum gift shop: The spirit of Yves Saint Laurent

Just as you might be compelled to visit Yves Saint Laurent: A Retrospective again and again during its stay at the Denver Art Museum through July 7, you'll want to keep coming back to the gift shop, which is bursting with a sense of style inspired by the YSL couture on display upstairs. Think of it ... More >>

Mona Lucero dishes on YSL and the magic of haute couture

While I think I have taste, I'm just another plebe at the Yves Saint Laurent show, wandering through the DAM, slobbering and snorting smelling salts to keep from fainting at each new discovery. So when it came time to pick favorites, I asked someone with a more sophisticated eye -- Denver fashion fi ... More >>

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 >>

Tonight at Red Drinks: The Denver Fashion Association talks solidarity for local designers

​Nearly a year ago, designers Tricia Hoke, Deb Henriksen, Jose Duran and Lisa Elstun put their heads together and created Red Drinks, a monthly get-together when local folks in the fashion/design field could mingle, network and share ideas. It's been going strong ever since, and after a holida ... More >>

The Local Angle

Indie Craft Cred

Dana Cain creates her own fun -- and makes Denver fun for creators

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 >>

Frock Out 2010: It's a circus out there!

​Oh, that Chris Loffelmacher. He promised a spectacle and, by god, he delivered. Last night's Frock Out 2010 fashion showdown at the Denver Central Library rocked it hard, baby, interspersing a drop-dead battalion of strutting models with sideshow curiosities both real and imagined on the runw ... More >>

Style Local: Mona Lucero

​Mona Lucero has a name in this town, but I have a feeling she would have gained one wherever she settled, even in what might be called more cosmopolitan coastal, urban or even global realms. In the eight years since she opened her Mona Lucero Design Boutique, an urban community of shops and r ... More >>

Show Your Colors

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

A Style of Her Own

Introducing Five Cool Things

Editor's note: This blog marks the debut of Five Cool Things, a new feature by Susan Froyd. Once a week, she'll muse on five Denver happenings worth celebrating. Don't let them slip through the cracks. The Good Body​• Local actor Mare Trevathan on body image in Eve Ensler's one-woman show T ... More >>

Kenny Be's Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #19 Ryan Spilborghs

A baseball card collection that features Colorado's boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. That late-night downtown roar is for Ryan Spilborghs and his 14th-inning casual glam slam in the hippest chic of Mona Lucero... ​

Meet the MasterMinds: Year 4

Mark MangerCatherine O'Neill's Art from Ashes won last year's MasterMind for literary arts. Across the metro area, artists and arts enthusiasts are working hard -- often unappreciated and uncompensated -- to change the cultural landscape. Catherine O'Neill's Art From Ashes uses poetry to elevate p ... More >>

Art in the City Afterhours Party

And the Winner of the Cydney Payton Design Challenge Is...

And the Winner of the Cydney Payton Design Challenge Is...

Style to Spare

Need a little black dress? How about a flippy summer frock? Denver's fashion designers have you covered. Just ask Cydney Payton.

Mona Lucero Designs for Cydney Payton

Mona Lucero Designs for Cydney Payton

Contestant #7: Gino Velardi

Clothes Call

The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

On the Prowl

On the Prowl

Fashion Calendar

Tres RADAR

Tres RADAR

Lower Highlands Fashion Show

Lower Highlands Fashion Show

High Style

Best Independent Clothing Boutique

Mona Lucero Design