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Thaw II

This one’s for the kids; Vitamin Water Social Club on July 10

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Jun 28, 2010 at 11:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Dapper now comes in size 2T; a Seattle-made look by featured Thaw designer Littlecrow

‘Since starting the Annual thaw Fashion Show for HDSA, friends, family and strangers have told me that I should also put on a kids version of that event,’ says Liz Weber. You’re reading this now because she listened to them.

Thaw Collective’s Indie Kids Fashion Show for Huntington’s Disease Society of America is July 10 at 11 at the Vitamin Water Social Club on Capitol Hill. Tickets are available from Brown Paper Tickets.

As with the adult version of Thaw, the kids’ show puts Seattle designers on display. Expect tiny style from lines like eight3one and Littlecrow Collection.

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Tags: Locally Made, Locally Designed, Fashion Show, Kids' style, Fundraiser, Thaw

Events

Dress Code: Well Red

Get your tickets now for this year’s Project Red Dress on June 4

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 24, 2010 at 10:30AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Barbie Hull

Backstage at last year’s Project Red Dress: Rose Dennis and I with two models

Twelve design students, $200 worth of fabric, 16 hours to create the finished product, $3,000 worth of scholarship money, and one color: Red.

The third annual Project Red Dress competition is on Friday June 4 at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, the same gorgeous setting as last year’s smash success show. The evening begins with cocktails at 6:30; the fashion show is at 7:30. Tickets are available here.

While the stakes are high for the designers (Project Runway fav Nick Verreos will once again be among the judges critiquing their work, and in addition to the prize money, winners will also land an internship spot with Luly Yang and space on the pages of Seattle Met magazine), there’s plenty for audience members like you to get excited about as well.

Among this year’s raffle prizes: a Hawaiian getaway.

And then there’s the community at large. Proceeds from Project Red Dress benefit the American Heart Association.

What should you wear? Red, of course.

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Tags: Locally Designed, Fashion Show, Fundraiser, Project Red Dress

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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 1 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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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: Street Style, Fashion Show, FACE

Events

Save the Date: Ken Downing at the Bravern

Want a personal shopping assistant, or just a fashionably good time? May 7 at Neiman Marcus.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 03, 2010 at 08:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Adam Sinding

Ken Downing at the Neiman Marcus opening gala in September

When shoppers around Bellevue and Seattle heard that Neiman Marcus was coming to town, one thing many of us wondered was what that would mean in terms of social and shopping events, parties, and fashion shows. Nordstrom does their Designer Preview event each summer, the general inquiry began, what will NM bring to the scene?

Over the last eight months or so, we’ve mixed and mingled at the answers to that question - that is, there was the Zac Posen show, the game night and in-store shopping event, and Roberta Armani’s recent visit, complete with a luncheon and a runway show. (To name a few.) As NM’s fashion director, Ken Downing, told me, these kinds of intimate and high-profile events are how the store gets to know its customers better, and how it reveals itself to the community at large.

To get to know Downing himself a little better, plan on being at Neiman Marcus on Friday May 7 at 6p to meet the Burien native and get a little inside style advice from one of fashion’s front-row big players. Downing will present a spring/summer trend show and then roam the racks with shoppers to talk fit and function, color, drape, body shape, and more.

Downing recently told me about a similar event that he co-hosted with Donna Karan and mentioned that he and the designer were popping in and out of dressing rooms like they were your oldest friends. Sounds like fun to me.

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Tags: Eastside, Neiman Marcus, Bravern, Fashion Show

Events

Reminder: FACE Fashion Show April 29

Tickets are on sale and going fast for Seattle’s best fashion show

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Apr 12, 2010 at 07:00AM Speech Bubble 1 Comments

Featuring the most directional-yet-wearable spring looks from Barneys New York, scene photography by Le 21 and Needle and Thread, wine from Young’s Columbia, bites from Herban Feast, and a super stylish, inspiring crowd, FACE is, hands-down, the best fashion show in town. And as this video by Lalo Creme and the Trendscaping crew (you met them all this February during New York Fashion Week) makes briefly and sweetly clear, it’s all for the kids.

The Seattle chapter of FACE supports schools in Nepal and India entirely due to your generosity and willingness to have a good time.

This is your reminder to buy tickets now.

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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 1 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: Fashion Show, FACE

Events

The Rules

1. Get yourself to Neiman Marcus at 6:30p on March 4

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 26, 2010 at 08:00AM Speech Bubble 3 Comments

A Fashion Rules question: “What was Diana Vreeland’s most famous line?” Know the answer? Bring it with you next Thursday night.

2. Proceed to Mariposa, NM’s in-store restaurant, where little old me has been asked to host a fiercely competitive (in a friendly way!) round or two of Fashion Rules, a style-centric board game. Monopoly for the Marc Jacobs set.

3. Grab a cocktail, and some bites, and join in.

It’s all part of Neiman Marcus’s Fashion Rules Party, a multi-store get-down celebrating the spring season and all things suede, semi-sheer, cropped, layered, draped, soft, pretty, and otherwise perfect.

The game begins at 6:30, and then the games continue with a spring trend fashion show at the plaza level at 7:30 and then free-for-all spa treatments, mini-makeovers, and more in the cosmetics department for the remainder of the evening, til 9.

What I like about parties in especially well-edited department stores, is the part about hanging out with Chanel suits and patent-leather beige YSL heels like it’s just no big deal. You can chill at the local pub and rub elbows with a pin-ball game and a couple of pull-tab dispensers if that’s what works for you, but too often luxury brands and exclusive designer goods feel all too … exclusive. Untouchable, really.

Here’s a chance to right that wrong—and show off some intimate knowledge of designer factoids and sartorial history, too.

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Tags: Eastside, Fashion Show, Party

Events

Luly’s Next Top Model

You fifteen minutes called, they’re waiting for you at Luly Yang’s first model call

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 05, 2010 at 07:30AM Speech Bubble 3 Comments

Luly Yang plays Tyra Banks on Monday February 8 as she casts models for her next two runway shows

So you think you can walk?

Get your 5×7 headshot ready and plan to be at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel’s Metropole Room on Monday February 8 between 10am and noon. Local designer Luly Yang, she of the dramatic ball and wedding gowns and those other Tiffany blue windows, is looking for women between 5’8" to 6’0" who wear sizes 2,4,6,8.

And I quote, “Luly’s dresses and runway models are hour glass shaped in comparison to New York fashion designers, who require size zero (0) models.”

Those selected will wear Yang’s designs on the runway in May as well as in her fall production next October.

Don’t forget to smile with your eyes.

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Tags: Locally Made, Locally Designed, Fashion Show

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Thaw II

Dress Code: Well Red

Face Faces Part II

Face Faces Part I

Save the Date: Ken Downing at the Bravern

Reminder: FACE Fashion Show April 29

Save the Date: FACE

The Rules

Luly’s Next Top Model

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