preen (and buffalo exchange!) fashion show for tucson HocoFest 2009
what’s HocoFest? oh, you know… i had no idea either. until there was a fashion show involved (and that right there sums up the extent of the brain-space i devote to anything non textile-related…)....
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So I hadn’t been planning on dressing up for Halloween at all until about 45 minutes before launch time – sometimes it feels like getting dressed up these days qualifies as “work.” By the time I had...
View ArticleCheck Us Out: Cigarette Girls From the Future
Recently, art dealer Eric Firestone invited my two roomies and I to attend his latest opening for ’40s pop artist, Andy Burgess. But not to attend as just any guests, because this wasn’t just any...
View ArticleCheck Me Out: Impersonating Edie (…or attempting to)
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View ArticleNomad Land
Ever since my relocation to the glorious Sonoran Desert, I can’t seem to get enough of sandy Southwest shades and be-jangled Bedouin baubles. (You may have even noticed that I wore the same coin scarf...
View ArticleOne Dress Three Ways: County Fair Chic
Remember how your mom would dress you and your four siblings the same when you all went to Universal Studios or a three legged chili cook-off or something and you’d hypothesize profusely about looking...
View ArticlePainfully Beauteous – The Artwork of Fuco Ueda
The internet gasped audibly when Fuco Ueda launched her website last year. Ueda’s works of in-exhalable beauty (acrylic and powdered mineral pigments on paper, cloth, and wood) are cloaked with an...
View ArticlePHDC: Fire Warning! Summer Trends Adapted for the Desert (or just …reality)
I can say without a doubt that the following shoot was the most death defying to date… and that’s including the time we shot in a haunted antiques warehouse in the bowels of the most crime-ridden...
View ArticleHappy Hallows Eve!
When you’re a stylist working on a farm, what else are you gonna do but show the insects how its done? – Praying Mantis photo by Kaary Ogard
View ArticleBeing Your Art : Inside Frida Kahlo’s Closet
Many of us never really find out what defines us beyond the friends we keep, the bands we hate, and how we like our eggs cooked. We hesitate, we bury the truth. We hold up our flickering candles while...
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