Style Girl’s intern Michael Deininger-Bell with his Fresh & Precious blog partner Courtney McGovern showing off their Americana style. Even when Memorial Day was a few months away, did you notice stars and stripes are having a bit of a moment? Separately (stars. stripes.), that’s not all that surprising. Same goes with the red, white and blue combination. Every year when the sunshine calls, we see the “summer on the French Riveria” type of vibe, but I’m talking about in-your-face America. Get this. It’s actually kind of in style to be patriotic. (Click HERE to see “60 Hot Hipster Girls Wearing American Flags”) In the past, it was something your neighbor’s parents “did.” You know, wearing their flag t-shirts, accessorizing with…
Malia McCarthy brigtens up the runway in an outfit from Monkee’s at last Thursday’s fashion show at Wine, Women & Shoes benefiting Make-A-Wish. Photo: Matt Dols Last year, I was contacted by Make-A-Wish in Raleigh about an event they were planning on bringing to Wilmington. They expressed interest in promoting their event Wine, Women & Shoes in the FASHION FIX. I was excited to hear about the concept: fashion show, shopping, wine and most memorably, “Shoe Guys” that basically “serve” and sell shoes from local boutiques…
Joel and Jess with our dear friend, painter Brad Kunkle, at his second sold-out show ”Gilded Wilderness” at Arcadia Gallery in Soho “It’s perfect. SGV… Style Girl Victory” Brad declared as he looked at his reflection in the mirror at Topman wearing a blazer I handed him to try on a few minutes earlier. It was two days before his sophomore exhibit opening show “Gilded Wilderness” at Arcadia Gallery in Soho. Instead of getting milkshakes at The Bowmanstown Diner like we did as teenagers, we were on a…
Tess Wheatley and Tiffany Taylor at The Garden Party after-party at Dockside I was graciously invited to attend The Garden Party with Dr. Mike Nichols and his beautiful wife Oz, who seduced everyone in her ultra sophisticated almost-antithesis Garden Party look – a black ALC jumpsuit from Beanie + Cecil, a Diane Fort Shagott headpiece from aMuse Artisanal Finery and her amazing Prada handbag just purchased in Vegas. All day long , women approached her saying how stunning she looked, ”just like Audrey Hepburn” before asking her to pose…
Chris Gore of The Courtyard Marriott giving Photographer Courtney Aliah his best Don Draper (quite impressive, Chris!) Jess James / “FASHION FIX” along with Land Rover Cape Fear hosted a high-style Mid-Century inspired “MAD MEN Returns” event March 29 at The Courtyard Marriott as a follow-up to the success of the “We Miss MAD MEN” event held in June 2011 at The Hilton Garden Inn. Since the new season FINALLY premiered Sunday March 25 (after a year-long absence), we gave fans their Mad Men fix with a celebratory premiere party…
AUSTIN SXSW 2012 By: Jess James & Gay Adair Gay: Let’s just get this out of the way..South By Southwest (or “SouthBy as the locals say), the gigantic music festival in Austin, Texas each spring, is a blast. I’ll go back. Before we got there, the word all round went like this, “The festival is not what it used to be, ruined.” And, “Way too many people; go to Austin at another time” and, ” Miss the craziness, you can’t get food or drinks and the traffic is unbelievable!”…
Rule Breakers Jess: To escape, my friend Stella French (who was living in Austin for a few weeks leading up to the festival) and I decided we’d much rather join the fashionable folks we spotted on the balcony at The Driskill Hotel. En route to the balcony, I spotted ShopBop Fashion Director Kate Ciepluch, an Instagram friend, who shared that she was there filming a secret project. Oh, the intrigue. Stella and I climbed the marble staircase two steps at a time only to find that…
