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Erykah Badu Will Walk Rihanna’s Savage Fashion Show But Can't Say Much About It

Erykah Badu Will Walk Rihanna’s Savage Fashion Show But Can't Say Much About It

Dallas Designers Are Saving the World One Upcycled Garment at a Time

Dallas Designers Are Saving the World One Upcycled Garment at a Time

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The Meadows Museum's New Exhibition Is a Treasure for Fashion History Buffs

By Desiree Gutierrez
Sep 13, 2021

Fashion aficionados and history buffs will have the opportunity to explore the grandeur of Spanish couture straight from Madrid this fall. Spain's Museo del Traje, Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico is making history with their first American collaboration. Opening Sept. 19, Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum (5900 Bishop Blvd.)...
Hot Girl Summer's Not Over: The Top Models from North Texas

By Trace Miller
Aug 17, 2021

Hot girl summer is drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean we must stop admiring hot people.
Nicky Hilton Was in Dallas and Talked Sustainable Line and Sister Paris' Documentary

By Paige Skinner
May 3, 2021

Inside Alice + Olivia in Highland Park Village, dozens of mainly white Highland Park women sip cocktails and chat among themselves. A DJ is blaring pop music, while nicely dressed men walk around offering Champagne to the guests. Everyone is seemingly relaxed while the night's guest of honor, Nicky Hilton...
Home Sewing Became a Trend in the Pandemic, and for Chris Tock, a Way of Life

By Karen Gavis
Apr 9, 2021

About six years ago, Chris Tock attended an anime event dressed as an assassin in a get-up that he made himself. This was just the beginning of an extreme side hustle. “I started sewing because I wanted to cosplay,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop after my first convention.”...
Myah Hasbany Is New to the Fashion World and Is Already Changing It

By Eva Raggio
Apr 7, 2021

The term “fashion statement” can be entirely overused, but not in the case of Myah Hasbany, whose wearable knitted art softly screams for attention. Her most recent works are showstopping displays of human creativity, consisting of amorphous lumps of wool that transform the wearer into strikingly surreal characters in a fashion...
Junior Players Has a Dream of Racial Equality, and it Starts With Fashion

By Brittany Nunn
Apr 5, 2021

Years before the hashtag #StopAsianHate was created to bring awareness to the rise in violence against Asian Americans, Rosaura Cruz was already looking for ways to partner with Asians in the Dallas community and around the globe. In 2019, Cruz developed a fashion show, Discover Runway Dreams, with Mopai-China Dreams,...
Nope, We're Not Taking Fashion Advice From Unoriginal Gen Zers

By Diamond Rodrigue
Feb 10, 2021

We don't know who hasn't heard this, but Gen Z young'uns took to TikTok this week to shame millenials for our style choices. Side parts are soooo over, apparently, along with skinny jeans and the laughing emoji. We have an emoji for you, Gen Z, but we might get in...
Artist Sean McGuire Wears Queer Hearts on His Sleeve

By Jacob Reyes
Oct 12, 2020

The handwritten notes hanging from Sean McGuire’s jacket are personal. They’re also funny, introspective and symbolic of a community that still yearns to be heard. Some of the notes read “I want a less polarized world,” “I wanna be valued. I want to live a life of purpose," “I want...
Rapper Smoke Stkz Pivots to Fashion and Purpose With Clothing Line Soda Plug

By Ryann Gordon
Sep 28, 2020

Racks of clothing line the walls as you enter the apartment, studio and workspace of local rapper Smoke Stkz, and not because his closet wouldn’t fit the entirety of his drip. It’s because his latest endeavor has placed him in a new field of artistry: fashion design. The 29-year-old Plano...
Disturbance, an Art Exhibition for These Chaotic Times: Toilet Paper, Solitude and You

By Lauren Drewes Daniels
Aug 25, 2020

Rulli Torres moved to Dallas in 2012 after graduating from the University of Arkansas with a degree in fashion design. He spent years designing and creating formal dresses for momentous events. His career was built around life’s great social occasions. When the pandemic hit, all of that glamour came to...
Fashion Designer Venny Etienne Hopes His Work for Beyoncé Is 'Just the Beginning'

By Tyler Hicks
Aug 6, 2020

Venny Etienne’s first fashion show was at the church on Utica Avenue. “When you grow up in Brooklyn, that’s how you and your friends know what churches you go to,” he says. “Like, ‘Oh, you go to the one on Utica Avenue? Yeah, me too!’” In front of 500 churchgoers,...
Woman Crush Wednesday: Fashion Designer Kendall Falcon

By Eva Raggio
May 13, 2020

Our woman crush this week is fashion designer Kendall Falcon, who first launched her line House of Cro five years ago. Before presenting her brand of minimalist luxury, the poised and well-traveled charmer was once cast in an MTV-produced The Hills spin-off that never aired. Their loss was Dallas’ gain...
Woman Crush Wednesday: Model Lucy Gebert

By Eva Raggio
Apr 22, 2020

Our woman crush this week is model Lucy Gebert, whose otherworldly beauty makes her a standout in the fashion world. It's no wonder Gebert's signature edgy elegance makes for a photographer's acid dreams: Although she's lived in Frisco since toddlerhood, Gebert was born in Luzern, Switzerland, to Canadian parents. She was...
Woman Crush Wednesday: Musician Nicole Marxen

By Eva Raggio
Mar 4, 2020

Our crush this week is musician Nicole Marxen, one of the shiny dark innovators behind glam rock band Midnight Opera. The singer and synth player's onstage showmanship follows the concept band’s high-drama, ever-changing narrative. The artist, muse and costume queen's appeal is transporting, taking us through the ages and many...
Bleach U.S.A. Founders Skated Around Business Rules and Made a Brand Out of Used Clothing

By Ryann Gordon
Mar 2, 2020

Many of us dream of creating a brand, but few of us have the time, resources and ambition to move forward. Two Allen natives, Nick Dennison and Aiden Savitch, found a way to combat these obstacles and create the brand they’ve been conceptualizing since high school, Bleach U.S.A. Dennison and...
Woman Crush Wednesday: Singer Bree Parker

By Eva Raggio
Feb 26, 2020

Our crush this week is singer Bree Parker, who fronts jazz and R&B fusion group Bree & the Fellas. A sunshine-like source of delightfully absurd talent, Parker is a master of vocal control who's often lighting up stages in Deep Ellum. And she doesn't litter. Swoon. What’s one song everyone loves that...
The 2000s Are Due for a Comeback, and We Can’t Let It Happen

By Garrett Gravley
Feb 5, 2020

In the 1970s, we had Happy Days. In the 1980s, we had Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69.” In the 1990s, we had That ’70s Show. In the 2000s, we had a post-punk revival. In the 2010s, ’90s nostalgia became so big that Nickelodeon started a programming block titled NickRewind, which was...
Fort Worth’s Kellie Stewart Is GUESS’s Next ‘It’ Model

By Paige Skinner
Jan 17, 2020

With high cheekbones, long legs, full lips and the kind of blond hair only Texan women have, she’s any brand’s dream model. A little bit Anna Nicole Smith with some Elle MacPherson sprinkled in, Kellie Stewart is the ultimate GUESS model. Stewart, a Fort Worth native who now lives in...
These Boots Are Made for Stalking: DFW Boot Shops We’re Obsessed With

By Karen Gavis
Dec 18, 2019

Getting the boot is typically not a bucket list event, unless there are two of them, which changes everything. And, in that case, a crocodile belt or python wallet could be thrown in, too, for good measure. For those looking to add a little Western bling to their wardrobe, or...
20 Dallas Instagram Accounts Worth Following

By Chase Carter
Dec 3, 2019

Understandably, finding these folks can be something of a challenge given the constant changes to Instagram's discoverability algorithm. That's why we've picked up the slack, bringing 20 Dallas accounts that exemplify whatever we think "good content" is.