Denver isn’t the only city that’s looking good. On the streets of Chicago, we ran into Forever 21 visual merchandiser Lonye White. She works at the Forever 21 store on Michigan Avenue in the Windy City, and she was sporting some serious style: burgundy socks and black leather combat boots,…
From the dungeon out into the light: We spotted some authentic S&M fashion when we ran into a dominatrix outside the Mayan Theatre. Broadway. “I came to Denver to check out the fetish following and the marijuana scene as well,” says New York-based Mistress Adrienne, a friend of local band…
November is here and while the temperature is dropping, the fashion scene in Denver is heating up. This month is filled with fashion shows, trunk shows, galas and fundraisers, all designed to get you stylish just in time for the holidays around the corner. Here are ten of the best…
Six weeks ago we flew to New York for New York Fashion Week, and we’re still thinking about some of the stylish individuals we met there. Broadcast standards manager Ashley Golden Brown, for example, spotted at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO during the Essence Street Style block party. “Essence…
October is zooming by, and Halloween will be here before you know it. But fear not, the next ten days are filled with fashion events, everything from haunted boutiques to killer runway shows. Even fashion funding is an option: Until November 14, emerging fashion designers can apply for the Fashion…
Blue hair is all the rage these days, and the azure locks of Atomic Sean, a hairstylist apprentice at Babooshka, caught our eye when we spotted him waiting for a bus at 11th Avenue and Broadway. Sean is originally from Pennsylvania and New Orleans, and has lived in Denver for…
The Crypt, Denver’s beloved adult store and sex shop, has closed its doors. On September 30, both of the locations on Broadway were shuttered; they’d been seized by the City of Denver because of “unpaid taxes.” Along with a notice from the city regarding the tax seizure, the door of…
An all-black outfit may be stylish, but when you’re dressing in a single color palette, you have to pay attention to the details. We spotted fellow blogger and stylist Merida Teot — who describes her style as “color meets local chic” — at the Whorl Imprints fashion show in Cherry…
October is the month of madness. The month to pull out all the stops and go over-the-top with all your fashion, and one outfit in particular: your Halloween costume. Although a couple of our favorite costume stores have closed — RIP, Flossy McGrew’s — there are still some fantastic spots…
Cassiana Moore is the owner of The Knockout Girl, a Brazilian fitness-wear brand with an online store. We spotted her at Imprints by Whorl, a fashion show featuring Whorl’s new line made at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and funded by Indie-gogo. There was hot fashion both…
Although October in Denver is packed with scares, tricks and treats, there’s also plenty of fashion, with events geared to turning over a new leaf — and getting a new fall look — all over town. From anniversary parties to pop-up shops, from fashion shows to sample sales, here are…
True style is classic, timeless and has nothing to do with age. And if there’s an ambassador for timeless style, it’s Debra Rapoport, the well-dressed star of Ari Seth Cohen’s blog, book and documentary, Advanced Style. The film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent and stylish people who happen to…
Feast your eyes on this spectacular look we spotted at Westword’s DISH celebration last Sunday. While the focus was on the food — signature dishes from more than forty of our favorite restaurants — there was also plenty of fashion on display at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex…
If you are not a season ahead, you are a season behind. We learned this basic rule of fashion while at New York Fashion Week, which showed work from designers’ Spring/Summer 2016 collections. On September 13, we attended the Essence Street Style Block Party, which went down in DUMBO. The acronym stands…
Nerd-core, geek-chic, pop-culture couture. Call is what you will. It is a real trend happening and we spotted someone doing it right this week. A prime example of stylish nerd-chic occurred when online entertainer, Audrey Madison, wore a R2D2 printed dress while browsing books at Capital Hill Books on Colfax…
Some fashion students are not waiting for graduation before they get their names out there. Nicole Marsch, a student in the fashion design program at the Art Institute of Colorado, is one of these gifted individuals: She designed a swimsuit that will be featured in the 2016 Denver Broncos Cheerleaders…
We spotted designer Cassie Herzog at Pallet Fest 2015 in Sculpture Park, selling her Broken Revolt handcrafted accessories, which she describes as “delicately dangerous bohemian and industrial jewelry.” We stopped to chat with Herzog about how she comes up with the sayings she stamps into her jewelry, what inspires her…
“The idea for Spruce had been brewing for some time,” say owners Taylor Romero and Becca Miller, who finally opened their brick-and-mortar menswear shop in Berkeley this summer. “I was working at a web space for a while and I felt I wasn’t being creative or like I had to chance…
Denver’s fashion scene is filled with everything from markets to parties to pop-ups. Here are six can’t-miss events in September; watch for updates later this month. 1) Spruce Grand Opening 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 3 4347 Tennyson Street To call Spruce a clothing store is oversimplifying things. Husband-and-duo…
This week we discovered dancer, self-employed top-hat maker and production-company manager Domino Pastore in a vibrant outfit on 16th and Champa streets. “I do a lot of performances with other artists and my partner and I are about to start doing a play with aerialists and jugglers. Rather than a traditional theater,…
This summer continues to sizzle with style. We spotted Maia Parish, certified sommelier and owner of The Wine Suite, a wine event and education company, in Cherry Creek North this month. Parish promotes a complete wine lifestyle, including tastings, classes, educational support, product reviews and wine-related events. “I do trade…
The big fashion event of not just this month, but perhaps this decade is the Nieman Marcus Denver 25th anniversary celebration, Then, Now, Next, which runs from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, which is also turning 25….very, very quietly. The bash…
