Street Style: Jessica Farrow

Cat found this lovely dress on a very lovely lady while at the Starbucks on Larimer Square. (Yes, yes, sacrilege for a support-local gal. She knows. But Starbucks makes the best iced tea, and Cat doesn’t drink coffee. Market, if you would brew better iced tea, Cat would come there.)…

Last Weekend: Scenes From The Fabric Lab

Slide show Cat missed the MADE event at The Fabric Lab on Saturday night – she resprained her ankle and was thus out of commission — but luckily The Cat’s Pajamas contributor Drew Bixby was on hand to send over photos and a missive of his thoughts:…

It’s a Tie: Oscar de la Renta and Proenza Win Big at CFDA Awards

Shocked, shocked Cat was: Last night Oscar de la Renta (above left) tied with Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler (above right) for the top Council of Fashion Designers of America award. (According to UK Vogue, presenter Ellen Barkin was shocked, too, only announcing de la Renta before…

OwnYourC.com and Summer Fashion

Here are a few additional fashion images from the Summer Guide, which comes out this Thursday, June 7. Anna Newell is ready to serve in the OwnYourC.com ice-cream truck, wearing a “Japanese Tea Garden” dress by Mona Lucero. Pretty sweet — especially because the poor girl is being photographed outside…

The Horndribbles Are Coming…to a T-Shirt Near You!

Cat is so stoked. Inordinately excited, actually. The Horndribbles — Lucas Richards’s and Sarah Cassidy’s weird plushy monsters you’ve seen displayed at WaterCourse, the Fabric Lab, Andenken, Fakture and other venues around town — are doing a show at Fancy Tiger this weekend. And they’re presenting T-shirts with the visages…

Gold-Dipped Pine Cones the New “It” Item? Fashionista Thinks So.

Fashionista is reporting today that the new pine cone earrings and necklace by Catherine Weitzman are sending “shivers down our spine.” Lately, you can’t walk down the street without seeing antlers – whether in jewelry, screen-printed t-shirts, or bar decorations. We think they might be going the way of skulls,…

ANTM’s Jaslene Makes Her Debut…

…and the verdict seems to be ewwww. Cat liked her just fine on the show (she was meh in general on this cycle), but someone over at Seventeen really hates this girl. Not only is the cover atrocious, check out the “natural beauty” photo. The hollow eyes, the mussy hair,…

State of the (Fashion) Union

Victoria Beckham (via WWD). Women’s Wear Daily has an interesting piece on the direction of the fashion industry and its insatiable appetite for all things celebrity. It’s a good discussion of the coming third wave where Hollywood owns fashion, not the other way around. Don’t miss Lights, Camera, Action: Showbiz…

NASCAR Brings Us…Shoes

Yep, that bastion of high style has entered the shoe market. They’re not as awful as Cat would have expected, but they’re not fun one-time shoes you buy because of the Wal-Mart price point, either. Seriously, these boots are still over $200. If Cat’s going to spend more than $200…

Linkalicious: What Cat’s Reading Now

Donna Karan is Blogging at Huffington Post – on Health Care! Adventures in Bathing Suit Shopping (via the New York Times) Tom Ford on Not Wearing Underwear (via New York Magazine) Anna Wintour’s Would-Be Killer Invokes the Devil Wears Prada Defense (via the New York Times) Black Models Too Hippy?…

Kate Bailey Takes Off on Bubble Puppy

Here are a few more outtakes from Summer Guide. This time they’re of the lovely Kate Bailey with “Bubble Puppy,” the art car created by Sean Guerrero. She’s wearing an original design by Lynne Bruning…

Knocked Up

A few friends of mine who adored Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up at early screenings have nonetheless voiced a similar complaint: There’s no way pin-up-pretty Katherine Heigl would end up with soaked-in-bongwater Seth Rogen, not even while drunk on a gallon of Everclear and stoned on a field of your finest…

Mr. Brooks

Mr. Brooks — in which Kevin Costner plays a respectable Seattle businessman who kills for thrills, thanks to the goading of an imaginary friend who looks a lot like William Hurt — is stunningly tepid, neither the clever and poignant metaphor for addiction it strives to be nor the darkly…

Once

Once, written and directed by John Carney, is a deceptively simple movie — a narrative strung together by pop songs, but without the sheen (or arrogance) of most cinematic musicals. By day, a Dublin busker (Glen Hansard) sings Van Morrison on a street corner for spare change, which, on occasion,…

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

I can’t really imagine this hoary old Broadway musical being done better than it is by the Denver Center Theatre Company — but part of me can’t imagine why anyone would bother doing it at all. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a cartoon of…

The Threepenny Opera

I suppose that a work as brilliant as Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera is bound to be interpreted and reinterpreted on the stage, each version as much a mirror of its time and place as of the creators’ intentions. Intended as a satire that inverted social values and suggested…

Now Playing

Bold Girls. The four Irish women in Rona Munro’s evocative, elliptical Bold Girls try to carry on in the equivalent of a war zone, doing their best to shelter and care for their children, filling their lives with humdrum chores and small diversions. All four characters are strongly delineated and…

Manuel Neri and Kim Dickey:Cold Pastoral

The Denver Art Museum’s still-new Frederic C. Hamilton Building has impacted the city — and the museum itself — in a wide range of ways, some good, some not so good. On the plus side is the unbelievable publicity the building has generated. The Daniel Libeskind-designed wing is estimated to…

Scapes and Sky – Sea

The current Barbara Carpenter solo in the east room at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) is called Scapes, and considering the artist’s established track record, it’s something of a surprise. For nearly twenty years, Carpenter has been known for her abstract color photos, but for Scapes, she did…

Sketches

Altar Girls. Two very different exhibits roughly collide into one another in the middle of the Museo de las Américas. One part, put together by Museo curator Kristi Martens, is an extravaganza of santos made mostly in Colorado, Mexico and New Mexico, and primarily culled from a recent gift to…

Cannibal Corpse

Hannibal Rising (Weinstein) Pointless beyond belief, Hannibal Rising serves more as cautionary tale than horror story. Made for $50 mil, the movie pocketed half that during its U.S. run and likely wound up in the red — an appropriate adios for a franchise starring a peripheral character better served by…

Student Bodies

Dating games have come a long way since the days when Chuck Woolery invited mullet-sporting contestants to bump uglies on Love Connection. In Japan, the “dating simulator” video-game craze has raged stronger than a schoolboy’s hormones since the early ’90s. But here in America — where our gaming interests lean…