Clothing and gift store owner Candace Love takes pride in the appearance of her clients. She believes that customers of Bou Cou, located just off East Boulevard, want the special attention to their wardrobe that Love offers.
Clients enter the shop located across from Home Depot in The Courtyard to look over the latest from New York designer Worth, and to hear Love's opinion of how the fashions would fit on them.
While she has spent a majority of her working life in the com puter field, the Arizona State University graduate said she has always enjoyed clothing, and knows how important it is for women to look their best. Read more...
Wearing civic pride on your sleeve (or torso) just got a whole lot hipper.
Yes, it's finally fashionable to declare an unabashed love of Columbus, sending a kitschy message to your Los Angeles friends: Y eah, I'm from Ohio -- what of it?
A growing crop of area artisans, some using only a silk-screen printer and an Internet connection, are creating T-shirts with a satirical (yet loving) take on regional identity. Read more...
Santa Fe, NM — The Urban Smalls Corporation, a leading provider of humorous infant gift apparel, announced today that it has signed a North American license agreement with Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading next generation filmed entertainment studio, for the quote “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” from the studio’s motion picture Dirty Dancing to be used on infant and children’s clothing.
The American Film Institute voted “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” as one of the top 100 most popular quotes from a motion picture. Read more...
Tucked into an off-center artery of Norfolk’s historic Ghent business district sits éclectique Mélange .
Everything about this boutique is off-center – in a Kimora-Lee-Simmons fabulosity way – from the spelling of the shop’s name to its eccentric merchandise to its glam owner.
Shirley Woolfitt recently took over the ladies boutique formerly known as Mélange and owned by Lacie Bowers. Old-school style mavens may recall Bowers from the store’s inaugural days on 21st Street.
Woolfitt gave the pink-and-black decor a high-fashion lift complete with a chandelier and theater-style drapes. Read more...
Alabama — Virginia Seales says that she has always had a “passion for fashion,” so it is really no surprise that she ended up owning her own clothing boutique, Uptown Girls. While she admits that it is a lot of work and requires a lot of faith, she says that it is well worth it because she is able to do what she loves.
“Fashion is exciting and it is always changing,” she says, adding that she really enjoys all of the aspects of designing and decorating, and she really likes decorating her stores. “This store has evolved into so much more than I ever imagined,” she says.
Nine years ago, Seales opened her consignment and gift shop, the Ivy Cottage, in downtown Pell City. Years later, she and her daughter Kala decided to take their love of fashion a step further and open a clothing boutique. Read more...
At age 6, Joan Carney was already a budding fashionista with a strong preference for selecting her own outfits on family shopping trips. During one such outing, she was allowed to choose only one pair of shoes for the upcoming season. Her parents suggested a practical black pair. Carney's choice? Red.
"My dad said, 'If she wants red, she'd better not ask for another pair in black (later)'," Carney remembers. "And I got the red shoes, and I didn't complain."
Today, that self- described, deeply ingrained "passion for fashion" plays out in Carney's wearable art shop, Lilly's Boutique Gallery, in downtown Zionsville. A nod to Carney's childhood nickname, Lilly's stocks clothing, shoes, jewelry and other accessories crafted by artisans from around the world. Read more...
The inspirations come from Mongolia to Lake Massawippi to Montana, as in Hannah. The clothes are made around the globe.
But home base is Montreal for a fair number of companies supplying cool kids' wear for back to school.
The industry is surviving, if not robust, said Patrick Thomas, who ran the Children's Apparel Manufacturing Association until it was disbanded recently. "Those who have survived are good,'' he said. Read more...
Sometimes the owners of Sugar, Duxbury’s newest boutique, don’t even know what the store will look like when they arrive in the morning.
John and Pamela Coviello are always changing the store, rearranging things and adding new inventory, to keep it exciting, they said.
John and Pamela Coviello, owners of Sugar, opened their business earlier this summer. John is a writer for DrumHead Magazine and Pamela is a former pharmacist. They have lived in Duxbury for eight years. Read more...
See Kai Run, popular manufacturer of the perfect first shoe for new walkers, is focusing on fresh silhouettes and colorways for the upcoming spring/summer 2009 collection. Read more...
As a result of the matching event held during June, See Kai Run, popular manufacturer of the perfect first shoe for new walkers, will donate over 8,000 pairs of shoes to Soles4Souls. Read more...
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