What happens when you ask a couple of Colorado mountain kids from Carbondale to redesign a classic sneaker in collaboration with California sneaker shoe retailer Bait and shoe company Ontisuka Tiger? You get a limited release pair of retro kicks appropriately branded Colorado 85 “6,200FT.” We connected with Patrick Liberty,…
Celebrate Fashion, the show at the JW Marriott tonight, celebrates the retailers of Cherry Creek North, all of which will bring something different to the runway. SOL, located at 248 Detroit Street, will show off something not often featured at traditional fashion shows: lingerie. (SOL is short for Store of…
Rained out of its original outdoor venue and date last month, Cherry Creek North’s Celebrate Fashion is finally on for tonight — indoors — at the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. The show will feature fourteen boutiques, each presenting fall adult and children’s collections available in Cherry Creek North. The…
Tata Harper’s father was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. During her meetings with doctors, Harper was asked to list all of the different things her father came in contact with on a daily basis. She gathered vitamins, food, lotions and anything else she could think of — and in doing…
What could else could Donna Karan do to make us look like runway models without resorting to dieting? Try asymmetrical, draping jersey knits, a little shoulder exposure teamed with a stunning neutral pallet of makeup from Bobbi Brown. Curtis Farnham, Donna Karan director of retail stylist, and Liz Boyle, freelance…
Two of the world’s most fashionable streets — Madison Avenue in New York City and Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles — now intersect in Denver, Colorado. Kristen and Paige Brown, a mother-daughter team, have opened Melrose and Madison on Old South Pearl Street. See also: Womenswear Wednesday: Chloe Sweem…
Justice Kwesi Kwarteng, founder and creative director of Colorado Fashion Week, dreams of turning Colorado’s fashion community into a competitive and sustainable force — and those dreams just came one step closer.A sold-out show this past Saturday, packed with supporters, representatives of Colorado’s fashion industry and the fashion faithful, provided…
After ten successful years in the advertising business, Brian Wilkens decided to refocus his creative talents to help those who struggle withfeelings of awkwardness in social situations. He now turns geeks into geek-chic with the help of the new designs he creates under his own branch, AWKWRD. See also:Forever Darling…
It’s not often that you get access to the city’s top entrepreneurs all in one room — and even more rare to find them dressed so fashionably. If you want to make yourself heard and the same time you can see and be seen, then you don’t want to miss…
A good sale can be found daily — just check out Groupon. But a great sale is much harder to find — and twice a year, Frock Shop delivers. Katie Gartner, founder of Frock Shop, even does all the leg work. See also: Fashion Lab Runway Show, Mona Lucero Fashion…
Justice Kwesi Kwarteng is smartly dressed and educated. Perhaps most important, the founder and creative director of Colorado Fashion Week, which starts today, has a quiet disposition. And that’s good, because with multiple events happening this week, the entity he created can become quite chaotic. See also:Colorado Fashion Week behind…
With bikinis packed away and the smell of sunscreen a distant memory, it is time to focus on fall fashion and all it has to offer. October is a great month for fashion events: From fundraisers to a great designer sale, there’s something for every shopper. See also: Forever Darling…
We know who you are. You will let a total stranger touch them. You can tolerate a little pain if it makes them look sexy. You’ll take them any way you can get them: pointed, flat, two-tone or thigh-high. Clearly you have a problem — but the first step is…
Aaron ThackerayPaul Bunyan loved it. So did Nirvana and Pearl Jam. And yet Denver seems to be in therapy when it comes to flannel. Our neurosis over the simple worsted wool garment is that flannel ties us so closely with Colorado’s back-to-nature roots when we are making every attempt to…
