Wear What When

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 0 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

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 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