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Ayoka Lucas | 12/09/2009 - 5:17pm
The past week has been overflowing with fashion happenings all over the city and I have for you a few video highlights from a number of these stylish affairs. Thursday night the King Street Shop Walk, a benefit for Center for Women, brought together...

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Ida Becker | 12/09/2009 - 9:24am
Shoes. Sugar. Support a good cause. Repeat. This weekend saw the sixth annual Shopping With Friends, a retail extravaganza that earmarks 10% of sales conducted in scores of area businesses on one set day for Lowcountry AIDS Services. Friday night...

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Ida Becker | 12/09/2009 - 12:12am
Featuring a clever illustration that uses four wine bottle silhouettes and a fork to indicate five hash marks—a nod to the fifth Charleston Food + Wine Festival—the entry designed by graphic artist Jay Fletcher was named winner of the 2010 poster...

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Ayoka Lucas | 12/01/2009 - 2:49pm
You can't beat an amazing week of fashion and shopping whether it be for the Holidays, yourself, a charity, or to support the retail economy! This week is packed with style based activities and just in time to finish your gift list! Yesterday,...

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Ida Becker | 12/01/2009 - 12:00pm
The previews alone left a pit in my stomach, so it was with great trepidation that I went to the Terrace Theatre last Monday to screen Precious, an intense story of poverty, obesity, teenaged pregnancy, and abuse. Three local nonprofit groups, each...

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Ayoka Lucas | 11/24/2009 - 9:57am
Last Thursday, I stopped by the opening celebration for Novel, the arts and fashion collaborative pop-up shop by Jane Pope (Balboa) and Lauren Lail (Library: Archives of Fashion) featuring Margo Kaufman Gallery artists. It was, of course, a stylish...

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Ida Becker | 11/23/2009 - 9:34am
The recession has resulted in an interesting schism in the way nonprofits approach fundraising events. One camp has shrewdly scaled back the fluff—Crisis Ministries' recent "no item auction" that raised $130,000 is a perfect example. The other side...

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Ayoka Lucas | 11/18/2009 - 9:51am
On Monday,Library:Archives of Fashion, Balboa and Jane Pope Jewelry kicked off the month long Art and Fashion Collaborative called Novel located at 438 King Street. I love a pop-up shop as they always stir up that exhilarating urgency to shop for...

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Ida Becker | 11/16/2009 - 6:41pm
From the new moon presently slung low over the Holy City to the angst-ridden teenagers who will overtake the Hippodrome for the premiere of Twilight: New Moon this weekend, moon madness abound. On Friday, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art...

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Ayoka Lucas | 11/13/2009 - 10:19pm
It was such an honor when Andrew Petersen, Charleston's lead make-up artist for the Internationally known Trish McEvoy beauty line, asked me to co-host the Gorgeous Red Lip Color launch party! I am a huge supporter of Lowcountry AIDS Services(LAS)...

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