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Win Tickets for FACE

Land two free tickets to Seattle’s best runway show on Tuesday, April 26.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Apr 22, 2011 at 06:15AM Speech Bubble 5 Comments

Photo: Adam Sinding; Le 21eme Arrondissement

A runway image from last year’s FACE show.

The super-anticipated FACE fashion show, in which top trends from Barneys New York are paraded around Pnk Ultra Lounge while you bid on amazing local goods and services for the benefit of beautiful young minds in India, is just five days away.

Have you scored tickets yet?

No? Here’s your chance.

Use the orange email the editor link to the right of this post (underneath the image of me seemingly examining my navel) and send in your name, email, and phone number for a chance to win two free tickets for the Tuesday, April 26 event.

Your email must have the words “I heart FACE” in the subject line, and you may only submit one entry. Those who enter more than once will be disqualified and publicly disgraced.

Entries must be received by Tuesday April 26 at 3; a winner will be selected at 4, and notified via phone and email. The winner and his/her guest will claim their tickets at check-in a few hours later.

Don’t want to chance it? Ensure a seat with a visit to the Brown Paper Tickets site.

For more on FACE, please visit their website and Facebook page.

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Tags: Seattle Street Style, Seattle Fashion Show, FACE, Barneys

UPDATED Runway: Zandra Rhodes, The Stranger, FACE, and Trends for Treehouse

Save these dates for upcoming fashion events around town.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Mar 29, 2011 at 08:00AM Speech Bubble 2 Comments

Brit designer Zandra Rhodes appears at a spring 11 runway show of her couture looks at Neiman Marcus on April 7; the incricate costumes she designed for Seattle Opera’s Magic Flute will be on display inside the store from April 1 through April 10.

Who says there are never any fashion events in this town? Here are four to put on your calendar now.

EDITED Where: Neiman Marcus

What: Together with the Seattle Opera, the Bravern anchor brings the super-colorful Brit designer Zandra Rhodes to town for a look at the couture looks in her spring ‘11 collection. Ms. Rhodes designed the costumes for the Seattle Opera’s production of the Magic Flute; those pieces will be on display in the store from April 1 through April 10.

When: ~~Thursday, April 7; Seattle Opera is taking reservations for the event. Call 206-676-5568 or visit www.seattleopera.org/zandrarhodesevent for more information.~~

THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE TO THIS EVENT Zandra Rhodes will be making a public appearance at Neiman Marcus on Friday, April 8 from 1 to 4. There will not be a runway show, but her spring ‘11 collection will be modeled and on display. This event is free and open to the public. Her costumes for the Opera’s Magic Flute production will still be on display from April 1 through April 10 in the Neiman Marcus windows.

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Where: ACT Theatre

What: The Stranger presents the first annual Worn Out, in which some up-and-coming Seattle designers (some of whom you’ve seen here and here and here) show their stuff.

The weekly paper has asked yours truly to help judge a Vitamin Water–sponsored contest portion of the event, so I’m looking forward to that. At least I think I am.

When: Friday, April 8; tickets are $20 and they’re on sale now.

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Where: Pnk Ultra Lounge

What: This year’s FACE promises all the big city glamor of year’s past—the runway looks are from Barneys, the models are top talent from local agencies, the crowd is exactly the kind you want to be a part of. Of course, the benefactors—homeless and orphaned children in schools built entirely with Seattle dollars in Nepal and India—are exactly the kind you want to be involved with also.

When: Tuesday, April 26; tickets range from $50 to $125 and are available through Brown Paper Tickets.

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Where: Westfield Shopping Center

What: Trends for Treehouse raises funds to provide area foster children with the help and services that they don’t otherwise have access to. The show also puts hot looks from Banana Republic, Escape Outdoors, Gap, The Limited, Macy’s, and more on the runway.

When: Thursday, May 12; tickets are $50

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Tags: Eastside, Seattle Fashion Show, Fundraiser, FACE, Barneys

Party with a Purpose

The Sunflower Children crew knows how to have a good-looking good time, for a really good reason.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Dec 02, 2010 at 03:30PM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Where: Voda Studio, at 1050 W Nickerson, Seattle, 98119

What: It’s an industry party that’s not really an industry party. It’s a fundraiser that asks you to do little more than have fun.

Sunflower Children’s yearly winter bash is all about putting together dollars that directly fund schools in Nepal and India — schools that exist solely because people in Seattle are delighted to attend fashion shows and other events that fuel such worthwhile work. Remember the yearly fashion show, FACE? Same people. Very same great people.

The industry part? Yes, well, Seattle’s fashion community is intricately tied to FACE and the Sunflower folks, so parties like this weekend’s ‘Mad Holiday’ bash are populated with people who are not all unfun to look at and/or party with, or at least near.

Music by DJ Nasir, hosted bar and appetizers; $65 tickets are available here. Remember, you’re not just drinking the night away, you’re building schools and buying books. Get your party suit ready.

When: This Saturday, December 4 from 8 to 1.

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Events

Look Out

Steven Barrett Salon hosts a mini-FACE runway show on June 12

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Jun 02, 2010 at 03:00PM Speech Bubble 2 Comments

Great news for anyone who missed this year’s FACE fashion show: Steven Barrett Salon is throwing a party that’s going to look a lot like it.

On June 12 at 5p, the high-style salon is celebrating their first year on ~~First Ave~~ SECOND AVE by hosting a runway show featuring fashion from Barneys New York, and hair and makeup looks by their own visionary team members.

Snacks, beer, wine, and cocktails? Yes, of course.

Don’t be a freeloader: Donations are strongly encouraged; 100% of them go directly to Sunflower Children. Givers who pitch in at least $40 will be rewarded kindly with a gift certificate for a complimentary haircut at the salon.

RSVP is required. Put your fingers on the keyboard and type info (at) stevenbarrettsalon.com to reserve your space.

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Tags: Health and Beauty, FACE, Barneys

Wear What When and Who

Face Faces Part II

Adam Sinding’s highlights from last week’s FACE fashion show

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 06, 2010 at 07:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Adam Sinding

Slideshow: Adam Sinding’s runway images from the Barneys New York fashion show at Herban Feast for FACE 2010

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There are some things about last week’s FACE fashion show that we can’t show you in pictures or tell you about in words. You just had to be there to experience, for instance, the fashion and style community coming together to benefit school children on the other side of the planet. We did share, as best as is possible, the feeling of a couple hundred well-dressed Seattleites mixing it up on a (finally) sunny spring evening in Face Faces Part I, and here we give you highlights from Le 21eme Arrondissement blogger Adam Sinding’s view of the runway. The next best thing to having been there yourself.

I’m always psyched when Sinding can accompany me to a party; he’s about as serious as a person can be about photographing real life style and documenting modern fashion in its natural environment. But you knew that because you regularly read his blog. So on with the show. (Slideshow that is.)

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Tags: Seattle Fashion Show, FACE

Wear What When and Who

Face Faces Part I

Kam Martin’s style shots from the FACE fashion show

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 04, 2010 at 11:45AM Speech Bubble 2 Comments

Photo: Kam Martin

Slideshow: Even the Via Trib pizza guys were rocking a certain style at FACE at Herban Feast’s SoDo Park last Thursday night

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Kam Martin documents great looking Seattleites — and influential visitors — on her blog Needle + Thread. The design-trained photographer shows up at concerts, art events, and on well-traveled streets to capture the look of the city so I had to make sure she was at FACE to chronicle the style of the evening.

The slideshow here represents what caught Kam’s eye. Please enjoy, and please check back later this week for a slideshow of images from Le 21ème Arrondissement’s Adam Sinding.

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Tags: Seattle Street Style, Seattle Fashion Show, FACE

Events

FACE Facts

If you know your style quips you could win two free tickets to Thursday’s runway show

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Apr 27, 2010 at 07:00AM Speech Bubble 1 Comments

Photo: Barneys New York

We just really want you to be there, too. It wouldn’t be the same without you, so we’re giving away two tickets to Thursday night’s FACE fashion show featuring spring/summer looks from the downtown Barneys New York and benefiting hundreds of wonderful Sunflower Children.

Here’s the deal: Match the quote below to the personality, email your answer to wearwhatwhen (at) seattlemet.com with “FACE tickets” in the subject line (“FACE tickets” must be subject line; be sure that you email from an address that we can email back to). Emails must be received by noon on Wednesday April 28. All qualifying emails — that is: those whose emailer has correctly matched the quip with the quipper — will be tossed into a hat, and at 4p that day, Wednesday April 28, we’ll draw one winner from the batch. The winner will be notified via email (see prior note re: email address).

May the best, and luckiest, fashion follower win!

1. Self-plagiarism is style.

2. For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.

3. Who can live without some black clothes?

4. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

5, The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

A. Audrey Hepburn

B. Karl Lagerfeld

C. Alfred Hitchcock

D. Oscar Wilde

E. Mark Twain

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Events

Save the Date: FACE

Tickets on sale now for Seattle’s best runway show

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Mar 22, 2010 at 08:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Barneys New York Spring catalog

Among the super-chic looks on the FACE runway; that oh-so-worldly ethnic thing by Dries Van Noten

Each year, the talented and stylish men and women who run Seattle’s finest modeling agencies team up with the Seattle chapter of Sunflower Children to host FACE, in which the best runway models this side of Bryant Park march down a red carpet alley inside Herban Feast’s SoDo Park dressed in the hottest spring looks from Barneys New York.

This year’s event is set for April 29. Bought your ticket yet?

100% of the proceeds generated at each FACE go to support two schools for homeless and orphaned children, one in India and one in Nepal. Each relies directly on Seattle Sunflower Children—and you—for support.

When all that’s asked if you is a portion of this season’s shoe budget and a couple hours spent oogling Dries Van Noten and Marc Jacobs, how could you possibly miss it?

Reserve your place by the runway now, and check back here in the coming weeks for more details.

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Tags: Seattle Fashion Show, FACE