AltWeeklies Wire
Trump v. Sanders Supporters: Who Wore It Best?new
Is America going to be fashionable again? Or are we doomed to four years of patchouli?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Enrique Limon |
03-21-2016 |
Fashion
Designers and Models Work Together to Promote Healthy Body Imagenew
Many critics of the fashion industry place the blame on designers for fueling unhealthy body images by choosing models that more closely resemble coat hangers, but the truth is more complex: To promote healthier body image in the fashion world, designers and models must collaborate.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
04-26-2013 |
Fashion
Fashioning an Industrynew
Eugene fashion designers are on the cusp of becoming financially and critically successful, but one thing stands in their way - the lack of local garment production house. After a string of fatal factory fires in Bangladesh, where Walmart has their clothes made, these designers want to bring manufacturing home.
Eugene Weekly |
Alexandra Notman |
12-07-2012 |
Fashion
Q&A with Tim Gunnnew
Best known as the sharply dressed mentor of developing fashion designers on Lifetime’s Project Runway, Tim Gunn has recently emerged as an actor (Gossip Girl, Sex and the City 2, The Smurfs) and bestselling author (A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style and Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making it Work).
San Antonio Current |
Bryan Rindfuss |
10-05-2011 |
Fashion
Feathers: Hair Cool or Hair Cruel?new
Much to the roosters’ dismay, this feathery trend doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
Eugene Weekly |
Staff |
07-07-2011 |
Fashion
Miss Not-So-Perfect USAnew
Although rocked by lasting scandal and controversy, pageants have continued to stay the course.
Urban Tulsa Weekly |
Mike Easterling and Stacy Pettit |
08-11-2010 |
Fashion
Tags: Miss USA
Buffalo Native Adam Lippes Has Fashion Design Down to a Teenew
When pondering the elements of high fashion, the staple known as the T-shirt rarely comes to mind. Let alone finds its way down the runway. To contrast with the logo-printed and distressed tees out there, Adam Lippes yearned to create a more substantial hallmark suitable for everyone’s wardrobe.
Todd Smith's Shady Venturenew
If you asked Todd Smith seven or eight years ago what he'd be doing by 2010, the words "online sunglasses entrepreneur" probably would never have come out of his mouth. But after losing his job at Merrill Lynch, he decided to turn his fashionable hobby into a new online business venture.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
01-11-2010 |
Fashion
Tags: stunners, Sunglasses, San Francisco, California, business, web, Bay Area, Pittsburgh, fashion, online
Philly's Broken Justicenew
If you haven't been reading the Philadelphia Inquirer's series on our broken judicial system, you really should: it lays out in excruciating detail the failures of our "system".
Philadelphia Weekly |
Brendan Skwire |
12-22-2009 |
Fashion
Snap Into a Slim Jim: The Man Girdlenew
The man girdle, or mirdle, finally offers fashion-conscious men a constrictive yet surprisingly comfortable garment designed to streamline those problem areas. But what does it say about today's male?
Las Vegas Weekly |
Greg Beato |
08-06-2009 |
Fashion
The Tramp Stamp Storynew
The so-called tramp stamp is considered alternately sexy or vulgar, depending on who's looking at it. Why the special term? And why the fuss?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Amy Saltzman |
05-18-2009 |
Fashion
How 'Twilight' Made a Bag Lady's Fortunenew
The Bella Bag, as it's now known, is handmade in a basement studio by Angie Bowlds. The 27-year-old seamstress is frantically churning them out and mailing them off to Twilight fans.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Onstot |
04-27-2009 |
Fashion
San Antonio's Own Buffalo Exchangenew
It's not often that when you leave a stable 9-to-5 to open your dream business, you hit the zeitgeist of the times so cleanly. Luckily, this is exactly what happened to Crystal Palmer and Sandra Huizar when they opened Stitch to Wear, a "recycled fashion" boutique in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Leigh Baldwin |
04-01-2009 |
Fashion
As Luxury Retail Continues to Suffer, Fetish Wear Feels the Pinchnew
The fetish wear business is experiencing the economic slump in its own peculiar way.
New York Press |
Joseph Alexiou |
03-19-2009 |
Fashion
Tags: recession, fetish wear
A Handful of Designers Ignite Nashville's Underground Fashion Scenenew
A city where trends arrive two years too late and stick around for three years too long doesn't make anyone's short list of scenes to watch. But Nashville's underground designers are thriving despite that, mainly because they've managed to tap into a niche audience.
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
12-12-2008 |
Fashion
