Another season of Heidi Klum “auffing” contestants and Tim Gunn “making it work” is slated to start airing Wednesday night at 7 p.m. on Bravo. Sure, you can sit an home and make snarky comments to an empty room or your non-responsive husband (or am I the only one who…
Local designer Cheryl Herberg makes bags from recycled tire rubber, and while that’s not so unusual these days, her latest model is: The EcoPurseT Sunbird does way more than anyone could ask of a simple handbag – it not only holds all your stuff within its chic green confines, but…
What a sweet deal! You think you’re going for a cupcake, and you end up at a sample sale! The icing on the cake? A one-day affair at the super-rich and frosty Lovely Confections cupcake bakery, 1489 Steele Street, featuring baby- and kid-centric styles from a long roster of Colorado-based…
Slide Show Fame/ Celebrity/ Renown: The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed. In the days of reality TV programming and YouTube mania, I’m not really sure what makes a celebrity, a “celebrity” anymore. It seems that any schmoe with a decent head of hair can be catapulted…
How are Colfax ladies staying cool during this heat wave? In basic black, hot pink, and the ever-popular gladiator sandals. Alcohol doesn’t hurt either. — Rossy Kay…
I have always had a dream of opening my own boutique, a place where women can shop with their friends to find the perfect piece of clothing for that perfect event. A place where I stock the store with only pieces I would wear, like a big money-making extension of…
This week’s local designer, Sherry Hern, is similar to some of our other recent picks because she is fairly new to fashion (she’s only been designing for a year) and she uses familiar materials in unpredictable ways. Her designs, sold under the name Down Boy Down, also have the same…
It’s hard enough getting thrown into the heady world of international high fashion when you’re still a teenager. It’s even tougher when the dominant language of the fashion house where you’re working isn’t your native language but instead, say, Hungarian. Though 16-year-old Mercina Grace Tillemann-Dick, one of the many players…
The last few weeks of my life have been utter chaos. As we prepare to move, I’ve been packing, painting, speculating on the true state of our finances and, above all, stressing out. With most of our movies packed, there wasn’t much to do last night in our box-filled house…
Teen fashion correspondent Sarah Bolliger brings us the teen view of the latest summer fashion trends. Have you ever been reading something that made you think, ‘I wonder what the writer is like?’ I know I have. I always want to know more about the person who wrote what I…
I have always judged places by certain things. A doctor’s office gets kudos if they have good fashion magazines. I won’t go to a nightclub if the name is a one-syllable noun. And I have never had my hair cut at a salon with a title I didn’t approve of…
Kelli Modica, our local designer for this week, has only been in Denver for about seven months but she’s already created some impressive and original fashion with the help of The Other Side Arts complex, which we mentioned in this profile of designer Jonathan Applegate. Kelli’s designs for her lable,…
Last week, we here at Westword took a cue from MTV and threw a big bash celebrating Denver’s local music scene, complete with a music awards ceremony honoring the best of Denver’s best. To be honest, I don’t really remember a whole helluva lot about it because when the people…
Let’s get one thing straight: American Girl — the inspiration for Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, the just-released movie starring Abigail Breslin — is a product. It’s a company. It’s a money-making enterprise. It’s owned by Mattel now. That alone speaks volumes. What it’s not is the sum total of…
I have spent much of the past week researching 1858 fashions for a Colorado Inside Out show that goes back in time, and as anyone who tunes in to KBDI: Channel 12 tonight at 8 p.m. will see, the results are not pretty (see above) Rumor has it that 150…
Stressful work environment? Bad breakup? Lost your job? Some days are meant to be followed by a bourbon, a beer and an old Western movie, and happily, you can get all three at the venerable Watson’s groceries and liquors, which has held down the corner of Ninth and Lincoln since…
Teen fashion correspondent Sarah Bolliger brings us the teen view of the latest summer fashion trends. I’m just back from a vacation in California, where a bizarre visit to Hollywood inspired this blog. I was in a world where fashion seemed completely influenced by the celebrities you might stumble into;…
Yesterday, I browsed the women’s page of the New York Times — from August 4, 1901 — where the very latest “Gowns Worn by Visitors to Our Town” were detailed. Mrs. E. Reeves Merritt, for example, wore ” a simple white pique gown” with a skirt that cleared the floor…
“It was a most forlorn and desolate-looking metropolis,” Albert D. Richardson wrote in Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean, of his trip to Denver in 1859. “If my memory is faithful, there were five women in the whole gold region; and the appearance of a…
For the sleep-deprived, one of the benefits of being awake at 4 a.m. Saturday morning is being able to catch a rerun of Gunsmoke on TVLand. But that wasn’t Miss Kitty on the screen this weekend. No, it was the fourth installment of You’ve Got the Look, a train wreck…
Chicagoan Carole Frances Lung, better known as Frau Fiber, descends from a long line of seamstresses and works out from under the historical shadow of apparel industry workers, a distinctly underpaid female faction haunted by sweatshop roots yet later uplifted by the solidarity of unions. But the Frau – professional…
You know you’re in deep when the “green” lifestyle goes past reusable bags and recycling. The new trend for eco-friendly pet-owners is the Doggie Dooley, a product for making your dog’s visits to Mother Nature’s bathroom as environmentally sound as possible. The Doggie Dooley is an in-ground septic tank that…
