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The Fashion Statement

Rory Johnson | 03/15/2010 - 5:50pm
Sunday the Art Institute hosted a fashion exhibit in their gallery featuring student fashion illustrations, visual merchandising projects, tissue paper couture, and special guest artist Julie Klaper's "fastening" fashion as art...

The Fashion Statement

Rory Johnson | 03/13/2010 - 12:53pm
It's officially Charleston Fashion Week! The Margo Kaufman Gallery Fashion is Art Kick Off was night of fashion, art, street style and impromptu interpretive dance! Watch the fashion antics in these highlights of the nights festivities as a...

Style File

Ayoka Lucas | 03/11/2010 - 9:32am
In the midst of Charleston Fashion Week planning I took a night off last Wednesday  to head to Miami for the Red Bull Art of Can Gala! As soon as I landed in South Beach I had less than an hour to get dressed and hit the tents for this night...

Party Scene

Ida Becker | 03/08/2010 - 10:53pm
The demand for tickets to Bubbles and Sweets... With a Twist spawned a slew of exclamation-filled want ads on Craigslist, desperate texts to festival organizers, and even a hand-scrawled "wanted" poster pinned to Starbucks' bulletin...

Style File

Rory Johnson | 03/03/2010 - 12:26pm
Models are in their last stretch before Charleston Fashion Week with castings and fittings lined up almost every day. I love driving downtown and seeing models scampering from one in-store casting to the next. I managed to catch up with a group of...

Party Scene

Ida Becker | 03/03/2010 - 9:59am
The decadent Mardi Gras mask-shaped cookies and sticky-iced King Cake flew in the face of Lenten self-denial at the 5th Annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Ball on Saturday night. Although the whole Fat Tuesday themed affair took place a week and...

Party Scene

Ida Becker | 03/02/2010 - 12:17pm
Scores of women gathered in the private dining room above Rue de Jean last Wednesday for the launch of Women Making a Difference's 2010 giving circle campaign. Started in 2002 by three local women—Nancy Snowden, Weesie Newton, and Katie...

Style File

Ayoka Lucas | 03/01/2010 - 6:00pm
Troubadour Written by Guest Blogger: Gaynell Galt On Friday, Hampden Clothing hosted a trunk show for Charleston-based designer Lindsey Carter to showcase her label, Troubadour. A finalist in Charleston Fashion Week 2009’s Emerging Designer...

Party Scene

Ida Becker | 02/26/2010 - 2:12pm
To belong to the pantheon of noted Charleston chefs is, among other things, to be identified with talent both in and out of the kitchen. While the superlative skills attributed to our coterie of local chefs secure Charleston's plum position among...

Party Scene

Ida Becker | 02/19/2010 - 3:47pm
A glamorous paean to the Academy Awards (as interpreted by the Charleston Ballet Theatre) unfolded on Upper King Street Thursday night. The shrill fervor of a star-studded red carpet was incited by a clutch of autograph seeking fans, or in-character...

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