Here at Westword, we’re loving the new blog so much that we’ve decided to throw a launch party to celebrate with you, dear cyber-surfers, on Thursday, August 5, at Beauty Bar, 608 East 13th Avenue…
The minute you step into Nicole Schaap’s brand-new vintage boutique Crème de la Couture, you know you’re not in Kansas anymore, and that this is not your everyday resale shop. It’s more like a museum, a neatly hung collection of the real stuff, where the mood is amply set by…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our…
There you are, caught in some sort of zombie outbreak, from a localized incident with a few ghouls shuffling around to a full-blown zombie apocalypse. Your buddy’s sporting an ugly gash on his arm and you’re a little worried. Sure, he says it’s just a cut that occurred when he…
Matthew Brown is quite smart and quite thin, pleasantly articulate and a really nice guy with a hip sense of style that’s never obnoxious. His personal style credo is this: “If you don’t feel comfortable wearing it, it’s not you.” Brown and Jaime Jennings, his partner in life and business,…
We met Rachel greeting shoppers at the front door at Forever 21 in the Denver Pavilions and liked right off that she was enthusiastic and — what a surprise! — actually welcoming. And we loved her 21st-century Sally Bowles look, too, which was picture-perfect, from the bowler hat right down…
Forever 21’s loyal fans were out in droves last Saturday, at the grand opening of a newly remodeled and expanded store in the Denver Pavilions. Here are a few of the people and things we saw…
It’s not the first sighting and it won’t be the last, but Steve Weil of Rockmount Ranch Wear says the recent appearance of a Rockmount shirt on a new episode of Hannah Montana is notable because it crosses the age barrier. Miley Cyrus’s real-life dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, who plays…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our…
I call Forever 21 “Forever 12” because it’s my seventh-grader’s shopping destination of choice. But I’m also an old fart who can’t fit into anything really skimpy anymore. And I do know this: millions of young women (and even some older ones) swear by Forever 21, and they should…
To wrap up the month-long Biennial of the Americas, Denver-based designers formed a flash mob outside the DAM at about 6 p.m. Friday night. Each designer brought a garment, a model, a sign that stated the name of their label or business and included the common theme — “Designed in…
I love Paris in the springtime or even Paris in Denver in the summertime: That’s the taste you’re destined to experience at tomorrow night’s Créme de la Couture Grand Opening Fashion Show, which will serve doubly as an introduction to Créme de la Couture, a new high-end second-hand boutique opening…
I turned up at the well-chosen, sparkly-walled Beauty Bar for the first of a season’s worth of Project Runway viewing parties hosted by Tran Wills of the Fabric Lab and Mondo Guerra, the Denver designer who was put to the test in Season 8, which debuted on Lifetime last night…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we’ll hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our eye…
I totally can’t get enough summer clothes. It’s the season when one should try things — little things like wispy tank tops and breezy tissue linen camp shirts and sandals — incessantly, grabbing them off hangers or pulling them from shelves and throwing them wildly about the closet until somehow…
2010 Summer Guide “For weirdness to flourish, it has to have the right compost made up of dramatic history, amazing environments, and truly unique, off the grid characters,” writes Charmaine Ortega Getz, author of Weird Colorado. “Colorado is blessed with all three.” She should know, because she’s been exploring the…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on Earth Day — and in the middle of fee-free National Parks Week — that his department wanted to host the public sans entry fees several more times this year.From www.nationalparksonline.org:”What better way to celebrate this Earth Day than to make it easier…
The end is nigh, but the season’s not over yet — not quite. Ten potential hooky days and two weekends still remain at Loveland Ski Area. And if you have a pass to any other resort that already saw its lifts grind to a halt for the offseason in recent…
Next week is the National Park Service’s annual National Park Week, which means free entrance to all 392 parks in the national park system, plus special promotions at many of the parks: A perfect excuse, as if you need one, to explore the four national parks and six national monuments…
Whether your sport is backpacking, climbing, kayaking, skiing, or even just camping, if you’re going into the backcountry, it’s best to prepared. That includes knowing basic first aid procedures. While dramatic backcountry rescues often make the news, you can’t always count on timely response from rescuers to find you if…
Under beautiful blue skies, Snowmass officially called it a season Sunday, but thanks to the dumper the week before, Aspen Mountain is re-opening for the next two weekends, with antiquated lift ticket prices of $39 ($29 if you have a pass to any other Colorado resort), and all sorts of…
