Archive for the ‘Fashionable DC’ Category
Geek2Chic Celebrates High-Tech Fashion – For a Good Cause
If you came to the Geek 2 Chic fashion event – where men from the world of technology are dressed up and sent down a runway – expecting amazing makeovers before your eyes, you might be disappointed. After all, many of the amateur models at this charity fundraiser were hardly pocket-protector-sporting hopeless cases when they [...]
More »Brooks Brothers Opens On Georgetown Strip
This year’s latest addition to the Georgetown shopping scene is New York based Brooks Brothers which takes over the former Pottery Barn and Smith Hawken spaces on the corner of M & 31st Street NW. When I attended their grand opening party last week, I had completely underestimated how large this combined location would be. [...]
More »Fashion:District IV Announced
ReadySetDC has announced the details of their fourth Fashion:District event. Featuring autumn and winter collections from local designers like DeNada Design, Ginger Root Design, and Hugh & Crye, the premiere DC fashion event has now been expanded to an entire weekend.
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CB2 Fall Line: Space May Be Limited, But It Can Still Be Chic
Continuing on the heels of my Etsy Round Up: Washington DC feature apartment decorating finds, I ventured over the CB2 in Georgetown recently to check out their Fall 2011 collection. The latest and greatest from this Create&Barrel and Land of Nod, “affordable” sister shop centers on providing innovative, space saving options for DC’s small apartment, [...]
More »West Elm Arrives in Georgetown
West Elm has come back. Both in that they are back in the city, opening their first new store in the District since closing an underperforming Metro Center location in 2009, but also in terms of really reinvigorating the design and style of the homewares chain.
The Williams-Sonoma Inc subsidiary debuted in 2002 to considerable excitement. [...]
Solas Nua Brings Modern Irish Fashion to DC
Monday night, Solas Nua presented Paisean Faisean – a showcase of several new Irish fashion designers. Styled by DC-based blogging duo Birds of a Pleather (who also make up part of the wonderful Worn Magazine team), the show included pieces by Orla O’Connor, Katarzyna Wypych, Deirde Williams, By Yvonne, Ellis Boyle, Emma Manley, and Kathy [...]
More »TheFashionMagpie: DC Readers Leery of the New “Sunday Style” Section in The Post
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
You may have noticed a change to your Washington Post this past weekend, and if you are like any of the Washingtonians that have commented on this modification, you are probably not happy about it. The paper has split its arts and style sections, and D.C. residents will now [...]
TheFashionMagpie: Fashion, Illustrated
Image Copyright © Inslee Haynes
Last Thursday, I was in the midst of my blissful daily blog prowl when I stumbled upon a series of whimsical fashion illustrations that stopped me in my tracks. After snooping around for more information on their provenance, I was surprised to discover that the illustrator behind the series was Washingtonian [...]
TheFashionMagpie: Bringing D.C. Fashion and Art to the Foreground, Butler & Claypool Style
‘Adams Morgan Day – 2010′
courtesy of ‘TDLphoto’
Have you heard about Butler & Claypool? The District’s blogosphere is atwitter about this fresh-off-the-press retail and design collective. Founded this past fall but currently gearing up for a full launch later this month, the D.C.-based “collective” (more on what that means in a moment) was established by seasoned [...]
TheFashionMagpie: Miss DC Send-Off Tonight
‘Miss Teen America’
courtesy of ‘MudflapDC’
Does anyone watch the Miss America pageant anymore? Some consider the annual competition an offensive vestige of not-so-progressive [read: chauvinistic] yesteryear, but I must confess to a strange interest in the spectacle. Perhaps this curiosity has been fueled by the addictive, deliciously edited, and highly disturbing “Toddlers and Tiaras” series on [...]
The Fashion Magpie: Tari DC, A Different Kind of Consignment
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
When Julep–a well-stocked consignment shop in Georgetown–closed its doors in the spring of 2010, I was thoroughly disappointed. I had been peddling my clothes there (with great success) for months, an arrangement that had come to be handy in my bi-monthly “closet-cleaning” practice, not to mention useful in funding the purchase of [...]
TheFashionMagpie: Ringing in the New Year in Style
Personally, the question “What are you doing New Year’s?” spurs the infinitely more pressing question of “What am I wearing New Year’s?” For the ladies, metallics are de rigueur for this festive holiday, and with this season’s embrace of “the daytime sequin,” sparkly options abound in all but the stodgiest of major retailers. In short: [...]
More »Fashion’s Night Out DC (And The Men That Love It)
One cannot shake a blog, magazine, or twitter this week without hitting some kind of coverage of Fashion’s Night Out. The event, now in its second year, was launched by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue Magazine occurs this year on Friday, September 10th, from 6 to 11 pm. The well-intentioned – [...]
More »Washington Wardrobe: Lisa Rowan
On Lisa Rowan’s blog Quarter Life: The Beltway’s Best Vintage and Thrift, she focuses on showing readers how to clothe themselves frugally and without filling landfills with cast-off fast fashions. Judging by some of her posts, buying vintage and thrifted leaves plenty of money in the budget for a busy schedule of cocktail parties and [...]
More »The Devil Wore Hose
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
It’s oppressively hot this week. A scorcher. Another record-breaker in a year unfavorably full of cruel weather. Some of you will be able to go about your work day in “summer business casual,” but for others, you’ll soldier on in full battle gear. And for many women in our unfairly unfashionably maligned [...]
The Seersucker Social in Photos
All photos by Max Cook
This past Saturday was a crazy day in DC. Despite the sweltering heat, dedicated soccer fans filled Dupont Circle to cheer for their favorite teams. Hoards of people filled the streets to watch or partake in the Pride Parade. However my choice of torture was to participate in the Seersucker Social. [...]
Shecky’s Girls Night Out
‘Kazuko 05′
courtesy of ‘yospyn’
Do you enjoy spending time with your friends, shopping at amazing discounts, and scoring lots of freebies? If so, Shecky’s Girls Night Out may just be your idea of a perfect evening. Experience the newest Spring trends while enjoying cocktails and beauty treatments all in one night. Sounds pretty good to me!
Shecky’s [...]
A We Love DC Interview: Worn Magazine
‘Worn Magazine Preview 01′
courtesy of ‘maxedaperture’
Some may say DC lacks a fashion presence. However, with the onslaught of successful, local style blogs and publications in combination with the migration of young creative-types into the city – Washington is finally getting the makeover it has been desperately pleading for.
Helping our city make its mark is the [...]
