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Fashion Stroll Tonight

Press Release:

Fashion Stroll is a Spring/Fall event patterned after Salt Lake City’s wildly popular art-centric Gallery Stroll, but with a focus on fashion, live music, and independent style.

Fashion Stroll is free to the public, and will feature local style shopping at vendor booths along the sidewalks and inside the eclectic mix of shops, galleries and boutiques along East Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City (300 South between 200 East and 300 East).

Runway shows will highlight the best in new local fashions for Fall at 7, 8, and 9pm. DJs, live bands, and street artists will also be strewn along the sidewalks to round out a night of  fashion, art, and entertainment, SLC style.

In addition to the night’s festivities, SLC Fashion Stroll will be doing a “Style Swap” coat drive for the city’s homeless. Attendees to the Fashion Stroll can bring in their used coats, boots, and Fall/Winter wear to donate to the cause. In return, donors will receive a coupon good for a 10% discount on any purchase at any participating Fashion Stroll vendor or boutique.

Romain Kremer

From our NYC fashion correspondent Rodney Cuellar:

"I think this may be my new favorite menswear designer (Romain Kremer). Make sure to look at the archive photos. I love how out there it is. Very unapologetic and truly AVANTE GARDE not like the project runaway wannabes. It's updated utopian future fashion for fabulous people!"

If you enjoy perusing the fashion world as we do on occasion... Spring ready 2 wear shows have begun.. men / women.

Shred The Bern

All this talk of bike safety at CityWeekly and I'm guilty as the rest of them! I really DO want to change. I definitely need better role models (ahem!). Speaking of helmets, if you're looking for something different than speeding bullet, fish head styles check out the Bern Baker or Watts (shown above), Giro Flak or Catlike 360 - all will make you look like a bad dirt bike deud while simulusly (I made that up) protecting your light bulb.

Cake Boutique Opens In Park City

Cake Boutique opened just over a week ago in the Redstone Shopping Center at Kimball Junction in Park City and has been incredibly well-received. With an interior designed and remodeled by Patch Davis (L'astelier Cafe/Piler) how could they go wrong? Cake carries such brands as Mike&Chris, Nudie Jeans, Rag&Bone, Corpus, b.son, J Brand jeans and Citizens of Humanity, as well as the popular local brand, Zuriick. They stock denim, casual apparel, shoes and accessories for men and women in an atmosphere that is modern yet comfortable.

Cake is open 7 days a week. For store news and updates, visit their website, www.shopcakeboutique.com and sign up for email notifications. (click photos for larger view)

Life Is The Most Precious Thing You Possess

"Les ateliers Ruby are pleased to present Ruby, the leading brand for exceptional accessories committed to keeping you on the move. Inspired by Steve McQueen, Science Fiction and the great tradition of French luxury, Jerome Coste has created Ruby, a brand which guarantees good looks and safety for everyday heroes and heroines.

The first collection introduces the Pavillion, a crash helmet for motorcyclists, and also a range of silk scarves with hand-rolled helms. The Pavillion is the benchmark model for the exceptional style and ingenuity typical of les ateliers Ruby. Retro in inspiration but modern in design, at the same time traditional and sensual, it is a jet helmet (without a chinstrap) with a pleasing design that brings out the simplicity of the quality."

Jerome Coste has also started a "Signature" programme featuring Honet, a Parisian artist who's naive yet precise style lies somewhere between popular art and graphic novels. View more of Honet's amazing work as well his peers at Mr. L'Agent.

Representing over a dozen local clothing labels, Model.Citizen would like to introduce you to a few of its favorite local designers with a special "SLC Locals Sale" through the end of July, 2008. Spend $50 or more on local clothing labels, and receive a FREE $20 Model.Citizen gift card!

Model Citizen
247 E. Broadway
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
(801) 355-3588

SAY NO TO HO!...and yes to ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR!

Glamorous eccentrics are irresistible people. They are irreverent, occasionally impertinent, a tad mysterious, charming, often self-invented, good at applying eyeliner, and above all nonconformist. They are a fabulous confection of style, self-empowerment, and black patent sling backs. Everyone wants to be one, but how? Ubiquitous style guru Simon Doonan has the answer.

By no means a typical how-to manual, Eccentric Glamour is a mixture of cultural commentary and personal disclosure, generously seasoned with gushings of wildly dictatorial, provocative, and reckless style advice. Through cautionary tales and inspirational examples, Doonan shows how to develop your own brand of eccentric glamour — by magnifying everything that is already unique and idiosyncratic about you.

In these comic essays, interspersed with one-on-one interviews with some of the world's most glamorous eccentrics (including Iman, Lucy Liu, Tilda Swinton, Malcolm Gladwell, and many more), Simon Doonan offers the women of America an alternative to the cheapness and tackiness that currently pass for personal style. Eccentric Glamour is intended as an antidote to the epidemic of slutty dressing and porno-chic that has taken over since the arrival of Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith (may she rest in peace). While the typical TV boobs 'n' Botox makeovers force every woman to look the same, the transformations this book strives to inspire are the very opposite. Dressing like a ho is not just bad taste but boring! In Simon Doonan's book, conformity is the only crime and dressing down the only faux pas. Read More.

Style Wars - Wednesday @ W. Lounge

There's a fun party happening tomorrow night at the dub. Style Wars is a collaboration between some kick ass cycle shops and retailers. Trix in the parking lot and fashionism inside. Hit it up!

Jared Gold's Czarina Runway Event comes to SLC

From JaredGold.com: High Tech Meets Haute Couture as Jared Gold hosts his Spring Runway Event at the all new presentation space and technical lab for Webb Audio and Visual. Webb will be unboxing their newest effects as well as experimental works in progress and cutting edge staging to present the Czarina collection in an event that is revolutionary to both industries. The collection is fresh from a wild success at Los Angeles fashion week and will be featured on models from W Talent as well as imported celebrity models. Also, don't miss the Parking Lot Pre-Show party at 6:00 pm!

Show Some Leg

Some bloody magazine called Vman (with Ashton Kutcher copying the photo shoot Steven Klein did with Tom Ford for W. in 2005) turned me on to these "70s-esque well-fitting short trousers" by tie designer James Kendi. I agree with his arguments therein that all American shorts are as long as pants and ill fitting. James decided to make his own that are "not too short nor too tight–but just right." Adding that "It's very attractive when a man is confident enough to show his legs off." See the collection at Kendities.com.

Show em' who's boss with the Panthére de Cartier ring. Rawrrrr!

Opening May 7, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' new exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," explores how designers have mined comic books and mythology for inspiration. (Elva Ramirez, WSJ - Thanks )