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How to Style 7 Hot Summer Trends, According to a Local Fashion Expert

By Keisha P. Crabtree 2 weeks ago

The pandemic has undoubtedly altered our romantic relationship to apparel. We check out seasons change—and scenario numbers spike—all from the convenience of our dwelling offices with minor incentive to have on anything fancier than yoga trousers. This summer, Boulder indigenous Sophia Joseph says it is time to give your loungewear a well-acquired getaway. Her business brainchild, Meraki Moon, started out in 2013 as a side hustle and promptly grew from a dot-com shop into a cell boutique right now, it’s a brick-and-mortar playground in RiNo for the design-obsessed. “Meraki is Greek for the like or enthusiasm you put into your work,” says Joseph, who wishes us to come across our passion for manner again—especially as heat-climate shindigs beckon us again into the planet and into real summer time clothing. Sensation out of follow? Here are seven fashion trends to deliver some sizzle to your season.

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Meghan Markle’s Top Christian Dior Haute Couture Fashion Moments So Far

By Keisha P. Crabtree 2 weeks ago

Meghan Markle is known for her refined fashion sense, which she proudly puts together herself without the help of a stylist.

Since marrying into the British royal family in 2018, Meghan has moved away from the convention of dressing nearly exclusively in British designers, instead patronizing some of the biggest names in Parisian haute couture.

Haute couture is a fiercely guarded term that a designer can only claim to use if they meet a series of strict guidelines laid out by the French governing body, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. These guidelines state that only bespoke clothing made in Paris by fashion houses who employ a dedicated atelier of at least 15 staff members can apply for haute couture status.

Meghan’s first public haute couture item of clothing was the Ralph and Russo dress worn for her official engagement portraits. The former actress then chose

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Sunday Best: Seattle’s only style editor on mirror selfies and summer

By Keisha P. Crabtree 2 weeks ago
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Seattle Achieved fashion editor Zoe Sayler hates owning her photo taken, but she loves having her image. Mirror selfies — a millennial diary slipping out of design and style as large-res phone cameras proliferate — present “the means to hone, or get a real grasp, on how you want the world to see you,” Sayler suggests. “And that is all, I imagine, that design and style is.”

Sayler could be the only Seattle journalist with the title “style editor,” a work that invokes New York catwalks. (Sayler earlier interned for The Seattle Times, wherever we became good friends.) 

“Seattle design,” on the other hand, evokes Blundstone boots, Patagonia jackets and Carhartt beanies — not specifically higher trend. At any time Sayler tells someone what her work is, she feels the load to disprove that.

“I want to represent both equally the journal and the

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Where Interior Design Meets Fashion

By Keisha P. Crabtree 2 weeks ago

Interior design as a business and a creative practice is experiencing a renaissance not seen since probably the Renaissance when people dramatically re-evaluated their ideas of public vs. private urban spaces as well as divergent functional needs for the places of dwelling, labor, and leisure. The COVID-19 global lockdowns upended centuries of “common sense” about organizing shared spaces around day-to-day activities. A home turned into everything: office, gym, quiet study and loud entertainment center, industrial-grade food storage facility, childcare program, and a place of worship. It became clear the New Normal was overdue for a major redesign. The once-niche market is projected to grow at an impressive 8% compound annual growth rate to reach $255 billion annual valuation within five years. The next generation of in-demand interior designers and architects will be informed by the post-pandemic vision of co-working and co-living, in style.

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