Every spring since Maggie Gillette launched her bridal brand, The Giving Bride, I find myself circling back to her collection. Maggie’s focus on this critical lingerie niche and her efforts to keep the line succinct, sophisticated, and tailored locally as well as dedicated to a charitable cause, are much of what the millennial woman seeks when she shops. . . READ and SEE more here… Read More
This week Tina illustrates some of the amazing seamless fashion options that would never have been possible without the technology bequeathed to us from the hosiery industry . READ and SEE more here… Read More
When you visit Cabo San Lucas as a tourist your involvement is quite different than that of a “gringo”. As an expat, one becomes somewhat inured to the very things that were once the highlights of vacationing here: reams of bougainvilla blooming everywhere, giant cacti punctuating endless desert terrain, tiny newts scurrying down the walls of the house, an avalanche of color drenching the landscape, the ocean and even the … Read More
Over the weekend I finished reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Beautiful and the Damned”. I haven’t read Fitzgerald since my school age days, where literature courses required that we dissect his writing style. Frankly, I found the task laborious; so much description, so many words to make a simple point. But as I have grown less judgmental and more discerning with age, I decided to take another stab at this … Read More
This week Alison finds yet another brand worthy of our Gallery, La Costa del Algodón. This Barcelona based design house founded by Chipi Tornos and Isabel Pedemonte has created a luxurious line of vintage inspired loungewear, some of which was seen on Nicole Kidman in the blockbuster HBO series, “Big Little Lies” …..SEE and READ more here… Read More
I remember earlier in my retail career, whenever I felt too bogged down in paperwork, I would abandon my desk and re-merchandise the selling floor. It was like mental yoga, balancing color and form without compromising focus on key items. The challenge refreshed me. Today, a little under the weather and on a publishing deadline, I decided that the best salve for my current physical and mental challenges would be … Read More
Writing today’s blog presented me with a challenge. I really wanted to due diligence on the Freya Spring 17 swim collection. But since the Eveden brands, of which Freya claims a robust residency, deliver every month; and because I have a personal obsession with visual merchandising, even on-line, I found myself with a choice dilemma. I had to make a decision on what to showcase here, their sleek, solid and … Read More