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Silhouettes of Style: A Royal Affair

An April 29 Bellevue Collection fashion show supports the arts while celebrating Kate Middleton’s style.

Posted by: Katie Ormsby on Apr 18, 2011 at 08:15AM 0 Comments

Photo: usmagazine.com

Act Two’s upcoming fashion show celebrates Kate Middleton’s style. And while we may not know what her official title will be just yet, Middleton is certainly a blossoming trendsetter. The sapphire blue Issa dress she wore for the engagement press conference sold out in one day.

Even if you just judged magazine covers (People, Us Weekly, even Newsweek), you’d have to say there’s a pretty widespread case of royal wedding fever in the air. So assuming you don’t live under a rock, you know there’s a pretty big event set for April 29.

But the folks at Bellevue’s Act Two Guild are anticipating a week from this Friday for slightly different reasons. The organization’s third annual fashion show and luncheon just happens to fall on Kate and Will’s big day. The Brit’s event was scheduled after the Bellevue one, so they went with it. Subtitling the “Silhouettes of Style” with A Royal Affair, event chair Michele Phillips-Baransky says the theme ‘offers us an elegant backdrop to bring women together to enjoy fashion, raise money for [the arts], and celebrate.’

The show is at the Bellevue Westin and will highlight spring trends, including the ’70s thing and the perennial return of the nautical look. Runway styles come from shops inside the Bellevue Collection: Report, Road, Zebra Club, to name a few.

While we’re not sure that Kate rocks wide-leg flairs or the classic Breton striped shirt, she’s certainly got the eye of the fashion world. Karl Lagerfeld just publicly named her best feature and Brit Vogue‘s editor made recommendations on her wedding dress choice. The current edition of that mag spends a page comparing London’s two favorite Kates, Le Middleton to Le Moss.

Fittingly, a special segment of the Bellevue Collection show is devoted to Miss Middleton’s style—expect loads of posh hats and headpieces along with classic, understated UK prep.

Tickets are $125 and benefit the Tateuchi Center, a downtown Bellevue performing arts center targeted to open in 2014. The show begins at 11; tickets are available at the Act Two Guild website.

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Tags: Bellevue, Seattle Fashion Show, Fundraiser, The Royal Wedding

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 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

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 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, Seattle Fashion Show, Seattle Kids' Style, Fundraiser, Thaw

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 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, Seattle Fashion Show, Fundraiser, Project Red Dress

Dress Code: In the Bag

Michael Hebb’s next Night School meet-up features fashion icon Lauren Bush and benefits her FEED Project for Haiti

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 19, 2010 at 12:45PM 2 Comments

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Lauren Bush appears in a lot of high-style event photos on Style.com. She is also one-half of the founding team behind FEED Projects, which makes gorgeous Ikat bags for Guatemala and great looking Americana-esque totes that benefit Haiti.

Next Monday, May 24, Michael Hebb’s One Pot/Sorrento Hotel collaboration, Night School, welcomes Bush and her partner Ellen Gustafson for what Hebb (and we) are calling a very special Midnight Symposium.

You’ll be fed Hebb’s stew, you’ll drink wine, you’ll have the opportunity to take part in conversation with an important style and activism icon, and you’ll be asked to participate in a dialog about world hunger, what people like us can do to help, and The 30 Project.

What you wear is important, sure, but what you know, what you learn, and what you then share with your community is more important.

Upon purchasing a ticket (I’ve got mine), you’ll receive some required reading. Upon attending the event, you’ll receive a FEED 50 Haiti bag. Way better than anything else you might have considered doing on a Monday evening, right?

(Read: I’m amazed this event isn’t sold out already.)

What should you wear? Something in the new-world-urban-safari-chic vein, naturally. See you there.

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Tags: Dress Code, Fundraiser

Save the Date: Shopping for Kids

Tory Burch shopping event at the Bravern April 22

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Apr 05, 2010 at 07:45AM 1 Comments

A look from Tory Burch Spring/Summer 2010

Look down at your feet.

Are you wearing Reva flats? If so, you’re probably a pretty hardcore Tory Burch fan and you might like to mark April 22 on your social calendar.

If not, you may be in the market for a pair of those iconic T-logo’ed slip-ons, in which case you might also save the date for Moms Night out at Tory Burch for Seattle Children’s Hospital.

From 6 to 9 on April 22, you can take 10% off all full-price merchandise, knowing that 10% of the evening’s sales will be donated to the Phil Smart Sr. Guild of Children’s Hospital benefiting rehabilitation medicine. Shoppers can also enter to win a $500 Tory Burch bag that evening.

Sweetening the pot are bites from Wink Cupcakes and style advice from Tiffany Wendel.

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Tags: Bravern, Fundraiser