Food & Drink
Calling All Local Designers: It’s Time for Seamless in Seattle 2013
Ok, my people, start spreading the news. It’s time for Seamless in Seattle 2013. We’ve changed the rules and added two new categories, Established and Accessories, to the competition, joining Emerging and Students. We’ve removed the Bridal category, but if you are a bridal designer feel free to enter as either Established or Emerging. Winners…
Casting Call: Project Runway Season 12
Got an email today from the peeps over at Project Runway—they’re putting out the call for designers for season 12. Applications are available here and are due April 8. Winners have the chance to show at New York Fashion Week and win $100,000 to foster their line. They’ve raised the maximum amount of sales a…
SAM Gallery Turns 40
SAM Gallery celebrates 40 years of playing art matchmaker.
In the dating world, many consider the three-month mark a pivotal moment—when paramours have learned enough about each other to decide whether it’s worth going forward or cutting bait. As it turns out, that time frame makes sense for art lovers, too. SAM Gallery, Seattle Art Museum’s rental and sales sibling (housed in the Seattle…
Ameen and Deep Dhillon Bring a Global Perspective to Art Collecting
Two local painters collect colorful art from around the globe.
In Ameen and Deep Dhillon’s backyard, the chickens do double duty—as egg layers and as models. Ameen, an artist who teaches art classes for kids (studio-kids.com) in the green-roofed, sky-lighted studio Deep designed behind their Ballard home, opens the coop for her “life drawing” classes, so the students can study the birds’ movement and capture…
Carole McClellan to Show at Vancouver Fashion Week
I am totally intrigued by Vancouver Fashion Week and have often thought of heading up there to see if I could glean any insight into what it takes to throw a successful multi-day event like this. The event organizers seem to draw a nice group of emerging and established local and international designers, and it…
Spring Cleaning Sale at Kimberly Baker
Kimberly Baker, one of our fave local jewelry designers is having her biggest sale of the year this Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24. She’ll have one-of-a-kind and vintage pieces, as well as items from her main collection on sale, with earrings starting at $15 and necklaces from $20. The sale is in-store only…
Totokaelo to Open a Store Just for Men
**Update: I guess they had a few glitches and didn’t open Sunday. Stay tuned for more info** Big fashion news on Capitol Hill today. TotokaeloMan is opening below Totokaelo. It’s a huge space, skillfully merchandised with men’s clothing, accessories and shoes from Rick Owens (of course, who does it better in the universe Totokaelites traverse?),…
Beauty Break: Malie Organics
Everyone and their neighbor is in Hawaii right now, or getting ready to go. This is a blissful time of year if you’re one of the lucky ones heading off to paradise and a maddening one if you’re not. So if you’re with me, in the homebound camp, let’s develop a coping mechanism to get…
Helping Haitian Families One Blanket at a Time
Queen Anne’s Katlin Jackson knits together a strategy for keeping Haitian families together.
One does not take a trip to Haiti lightly, especially when the itinerary includes volunteering for 10 days at an orphanage. But all the bracing in the world could not prepare 28-year-old Katlin Jackson for the impact of her 2011 trip—an intensely complicated and emotional experience that moved her beyond outraged intention to direct action….
Find a Creative Spark at the Aviary
A new microshop in Ballard offers fun and functional gifts.
“What is creativity and how does it work?” That’s the question Ken Mitchell, a former marketing and product development guy for Fisher-Price Toys, likes to explore in his new microshop, The Aviary, which opened in the former Blackbird Candy Shoppe last November. Mitchell stocks the tiny angular space with notebooks and pens, Lomography cameras—analog cameras…
Spa it Up at Alderbrook
Alderbrook is a magical resort and spa on the shores of Hood Canal—a northwesty haven only two hours from the city. If you’re aching for a getaway you might want to consider heading there next Friday, March 22 for their Good Clean Fun event from 7:30 to 10 p.m. In addition to champagne and snacks,…
Built For Man Winter Presentation: The Man of the Future
My friend Francisco Hernandez is an incredibly talented designer with a wonderfully generous spirit. His seven year-old line, Built For Man, provides comfortable, wearable, sexy and unique clothing for men, in part made by artisans in Peru, for whom he provides a living through their traditional looming techniques. On Tuesday, March 19 from 7:30 to…
Faconnable Opens At Bellevue Square! Giveaway!
The beauty of a classic, traditional line like Faconnable,a French line started in 1950s, is that they offer something for practically everyone. Even the hippest it girl or punkest punk girl can appreciate a crisp white blouse, a cotton v-neck sweater and a black leather pencil skirt. What they do with those classics is up…
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