Photos courtsey of Elle.com. Click here for a slide show of the collection. Huh. Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s collection strikes Cat as incredibly ready-to-wear. Where’s the pizazz and sizzle and over-the-topness? Or at least the exquisite detailing? Plus, on the whole it seems slightly derivative of recent pop culture. Seriously, Mexican…
This is one of those cases where a picture really is worth a thousand words. This image is from the July issue of Lucky, and if that’s the best they could get the model to look with a team of stylists and hair/makeup people dedicated to her very gorgeousness, you…
Photo by Mark Manger. For those of you who are fans of Lee Alexander Jewelry, Cat has very sad news: Designer Christa Rost shut down operations. It seems that she and her husband are expecting a baby, so Christa is giving up her business. (Cat hopes it will only be…
Photos via Style.com. Click here for a complete slide show of the collection. The big event yesterday at the Fall 2007 Paris Haute Couture shows was, of course, Christian Dior. John Galliano was celebrating his tenth year heading up the house, which was celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. To mark the…
Selections from the fall/winter 2006/2007 Givenchy (left) and Christian Dior collections. (Photos via British Vogue.com.) Today marks one of Cat’s favorite annual rituals in fashion: The fall/winter Paris haute couture shows. Yes, Cat loves ready-to-wear for shopability, but she prefers the fancy and fantasy of haute couture — particularly for…
Photos by Taylor Sullivan Uptown, downtown, around town. Cat just didn’t know what the weekend would look like. And anything is possible on a summer Friday. This was proven swiftly and deftly by a just-out-of-the gate apparel designer Tina Jolliffe, who threw an insanely successful solo premier show… by herself…
[jump] Here’s the second installment of Cheap and Chic Monday, where the fashions are all under $100 — and usually on sale. Enjoy. Top row, left to right: 1. Rachel Pally Drape Front Dolman Dress from Shopbop.com $114, was $228 (under $100 with the Fourth of July discount) 2. Provence…
Photos by Taylor Sullivan Wendy VanDerMaas is celebrating. You see, it’s the second anniversary of her cute-casual-chic boutique, Swank (2405 West 32nd Avenue), so she’s hosting a champagne bash on Saturday, June 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. In honor of the big night, Cat asked her what she would…
New York Times: The return of RM, the designer formerly known as Roland Mouret. Cool Hunter: Huh. A house of camoflage. This may take even Cat’s love of camo too far. Elle.com: It’s a rave new world. Washington Post: Hard times for an “It Girl” – a look at Paris’s…
Cat can’t decide if she’s in love or if she’s lost her mind. (Yes, Stacy, we know what you will say. Your thoughts on Cat’s shoes have been duly noted in the comments.) You see these green Corazon sandals from Re-Mix Classic Vintage Footwear are either the most darling thing…
In the case pitting retailers against designers, the Supreme Court ruled for the designers today (June 27). In a five-to-four decision, the justices chose to overturn an old anti-trust law that allowed the retailers to set minimum prices on the goods they sell. The question now: Will this drive prices…
Kids not only love to relive their own stories, but they also have the imaginations to pull it off from scratch, winging it on memory alone. That’s why My Horizon, a new exhibit of landscape works by Downtown Aurora Visual Arts students ages seven to eighteen, promises to take gallery-goers…
Today’s Liberty Run, Walk & Festival of Rights has a political slant, as befits an event benefiting the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado. On top of music from Hotcakes Dean & the Flapjacks and assorted walks and runs for children and adults, “we’ve got a bunch of kids’…
After Elitch Gardens amusement park left its longtime location in northwest Denver in the mid-’90s, neighbors began to look with increasing concern upon the two structures that remained at West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street. The domed Carousel Pavilion was fading quickly, and the venerable Elitch Theatre — a Victorian…
Cirque du Soleil’s latest production, Corteo, is all about a dead clown. Or, to be more specific, a clown imagining his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere and observed by angels. “It just promises to be really cool,” notes Doatsy Peifer of Peifer Communications. “It’s a different creative…
The cult of Kahlo needs no explanation: Frida Kahlo, the artist, is already fascinating for her wholly original work, but when you view her in terms of her historical and social milieu — well, what more is there to say? She was born an icon. The Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray,…
Fans of the Man in Black know that Johnny Cash was just hitting his stride when he died, sitting on top of an illustrious fifty-year career that hadn’t ebbed in spite of health problems and the death of his beloved wife, June Carter. The iconic Cash ethos will always be…
Do you like to see bike kids jump ship over their handlebars? If so, then roll down to Civic Center Park tonight at 6 p.m. to catch all kinds of fixed-gear silliness, from bike soccer (yeah, soccer) to footdown (last man riding wins) to other games that result in scraped…
Theta Naught’s website claims that the band’s musical mastery, the precise way it builds its subsonic rhythms and melodic interludes, actually stems from its “brilliant use of mathematical equations and sound declensions.” The bio goes on to paint a scintillatingly hyperbolic picture of the bandmate geniuses working on everything from…
“If you asked me two years ago what I thought the future of Lipgloss would be, I’d probably tell you that the night would be dead by now,” remarks Lipgloss DJ and co-founder Tyler Jacobson. The weekly dance party has become a Friday-night staple in the Golden Triangle, and tonight…
Tonight’s e-town concert — a special presentation with Michael Franti and Spearhead, the John Butler Trio and Mavis Staples, taking place at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison — is billed as the first annual Green Rocks. So what’s to come in future years? “More fun, more green, more education, more…
For last year’s inaugural Great American Sing-Along, Tom Riis and the American Music Research Center crew ran off 100 programs, confident they’d be recycling more than a few of them. Then 400 people showed up. “We were blown away,” says Riis, director of the AMRC. “People were walking out really…
