Important takeaways from last night’s IgniteRaleigh 2, held Wednesday night in Lincoln Theatre: Raleigh boasts the third-highest concentration of modernist homes behind Los Angeles and Chicago, there is only one female boxer action figure and sexting is beneficial for relationships. The unique eventand those very random factswas part of Global Ignite Week, a social media […]
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Memoirs of a Greaser
DPAC/ Durham-My first encounter with Grease lasted precisely 24 minutes. It was 1998 and I was in sixth grade in Western North Carolina, still getting used to my new contact lenses and wearing my hair all the way down my back. It was also the year the movie version of the “girl meets boy, boy […]
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Chilly Wintour at center of The September Issue
The Indy‘s Neil Morris reviewed RJ Cutler’s The September Issue here, and recently, Karlie Justus, the Indy‘s fashion contributor, saw the film and offered her thoughts: Fashion, as both an industry and obsession, has emerged as a popular focus of the reality television genre, with shows such as Project Runway, America’s Next Top Model, The […]
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Some clothes in this year’s fashionSPARK could generate the real thing
More SPARKcon previews music, gaming, poetry, story, film, more fashionSPARK Friday, Sept. 18, 8 p.m. Fayetteville Street, Raleigh fashionSPARK designers Ahpeele Andrea Schmidt Blue Flame Piercing Carolina Wang Domino DRC Clothing FYSH Clothing Goods Katelyn Wells with hair accessories by Susan Phelps LLLavender Marie Cordella Metallic Spiral Raleigh Denim Revamp with accessories by Good Girls […]
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Fashion meets dance in these summer styles
As television shows such as So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars bring the art form to the mainstream, a revival of dance-inspired fashion is hitting the runways and streets. Dance and fashion are about aesthetically celebrating the human form or molding it into an ideal of beauty and grace. There […]
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Live: George Jones forgets some words but brings the heartache
George Jones Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary Saturday, April 25 If each of George Jones’ infamously depressing albums should come standard with a bottle of whiskey and a loaded gun, it’s a good thing there was a strict no-weapons policy Saturday night at Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre. Indeed, during Jones’ set, the heartache came in waves. […]
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Don’t compare Vogue magazine to Bronx Bombers
I doubt Andre Leon Talley will take in a Durham Bulls game on future trips to the Triangle. One, the Bulls are seriously lacking in Louis Vuitton fan gear, and two, the larger than life editor-at-large of Vogue magazine took serious exception to SEPTEMBER ISSUE director R.J. Cutler’s comparison of the magazine’s superstar line-up of […]
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Raleigh designers repurpose old materials into intriguing new fashions
Photo shoot locale We photographed our models in clothes and accessories from indieNC designers and Powell and Meredith’s Redress Raleigh collections at Durham’s Golden Belt campus. The former textile factory was used from the early 1900s to 1996 to make cloth pouches and packaging for Bull Durham tobacco. The buildings have been repurposed by Scientific […]
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Raleigh designers repurpose old materials into intriguing new fashions
Photo shoot locale We photographed our models in clothes and accessories from indieNC designers and Powell and Meredith’s Redress Raleigh collections at Durham’s Golden Belt campus. The former textile factory was used from the early 1900s to 1996 to make cloth pouches and packaging for Bull Durham tobacco. The buildings have been repurposed by Scientific […]
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Fashionable giving
The holidays are often full of fashionable forks in the road: What in the world does “holiday festive attire” mean? Does Santa’s workshop have better inventory of Christian Louboutins or Jimmy Choos? How short is too short for the company Christmas party? This year, however, presents and parties can seem excessive, as even Marc Jacobs […]