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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...

A pre-COVID Discover Runway Dreams show in 2019.

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...

Irving artist Sean McGuire wears his art, and cause, on his sleeve. He carries with him messages from LGBTQ people looking for hope.

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...

Dallas rapper Smoke Stkz is finding success as a fashion designer.

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,...

Falcon loves Timothée Chalamet and the smell of fresh basil. But not as much as we love her.

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...

Gebert in an editorial called "Desert Dweller"

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...

We just want to be Nicole for one day so we know what it's like to be this cool.

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...

Bree Parker is our woman crush this week. And pretty much always.

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...

Bawitda-WHAT? The 2000s sucked. Stop trying to make them happen again.

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 walking. And line-dancing, and for rodeo-ing.

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.

Dallas designer Travis Austin is giving all his love to Johnny, and June, with his new leather jacket collection.

Designer Travis Austin’s Johnny Cash Collection Walks the Line Between Love and Confidence

By David Fletcher

Nov 27, 2019

For Travis Austin, music and clothing have always gone hand in hand. Austin got his start in the fashion industry after he decided to leave the world of modeling to be one of the people he worked for. "I'll never forget it," he remembers. "It was Black Friday when I...

There are many rich people's items to choose from when you're rich!

5 Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gifts Ranked in Order of How Much You Need Them

By Paige Skinner

Nov 15, 2019

You are a rich person who likes to do rich person things. Lucky for you, Neiman Marcus released their list of Christmas Fantasy Gifts, so for hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can do what you were called to do — be a rich person doing rich person things. There...

A new "retail experience" in Plano is expanding its successful business model to other nationwide locations.

Surviving Retail’s Apocalypse: Plano’s Neighborhood Goods Thrives, Raises $11 Million for Expansion

By Leah Frazier

Nov 14, 2019

If there is one thing to know about Dallas retail-preneur Matt Alexander, it’s that he is always up for a good story. At the launch of one of his earlier ventures, Need, in 2013 (an e-commerce retailer and publication for men), it was the art of the story that drove...

Kellie Rasberry (right), with daughter Emma Kelly, is starting a mom-daughter-and-pop business: a fashion line.

Radio Queen Kellie Rasberry Launches Online Mother-Daughter Fashion Collaboration

By Leah Frazier

Nov 5, 2019

While you were sleeping, one of the most recognizable voices in morning radio dropped a new clothing company, and we have to admit — it’s darling. Kellie Rasberry, co-host of The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show and a self-proclaimed “all black everything” kind of gal, launched a mother-and-daughter e-commerce called Emma...

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