Food & Drink
Lifelong Thrift Gets a Facelift
!–paging_filter–pThrifters take note: The Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s a href=”http://www.llaa.org/get-involved/thrift-store” target=”_blank”Lifelong Thrift store/a has recently undergone a renovation and is better than ever. They’ve moved the housewares and given that section almost twice the square footage, in addition they’ve added double the hanging racks, mingled the clothing by type rather than gender, improved merchandise organization and…
Hitchcock Madrona Welcome Faris
!–paging_filter–pOne of our fave local jewelry designers, a href=”http://farisfaris.com/” target=”_blank”Faris Du Graf/a, has been picked up by a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/hitchcock-madrona“Hitchcock Madrona/a (because they know a good thing when they see it) who is hosting a welcoming party and trunk show for the designer on Thursday, August 22 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This is your chance…
The Best Lingerie Shops
While clothes can make the woman, it’s what’s underneath that can make her feel great. Downtown’s Nancy Meyer (1318 Fifth Ave.; 206.625.9200; nancymeyer.com) has been providing tasteful underpinnings for 35 years and was one of the first boutiques to introduce European brands such as La Perla and Eres to the United States. Nancy Meyer is…
Best Shops for Aroma Retail Therapy
Aromatherapy is a proven component of feeling good, as is self-pampering in the form of scented soaps, fragrant lotions and soothing candles. Ted Kennedy Watson has been a purveyor of such simple extravagances since he opened his first store, Watson Kennedy Fine Living, near Pike Place Market in 1998. His second store, Watson Kennedy Fine…
Covetable Cashmere From Paychi Guh
After 15 years at Nordstrom, textile designer and design director Paychi Karen Guh struck out on her own in the spring of 2012 with Paychi Guh, a line of cashmere sweaters, scarves and tops from yarn sourced and spun in Mongolia. Guh uses very fine, lightweight cashmere, culled from the downy undercoats of Mongolian goats,…
Tolerating Our State’s Gray Areas
Knute Berger tracks progress in Seattle’s messy legal margins
This month, Gray Matters takes up the subject of gray areas. Seattle is a tidy city for the most part, without the huge slums and decay of some older cities. But for all our Scando-Asian embrace of neatness, it is not so much our sense of order that defines us but rather along our messy…
The Best Under-the-Radar Shops
Discovering a new (to you) shop is like being a tourist in your own city. The excitement that comes from finding a store that has gone undetected by your retail radar means that a whole world of wardrobe possibilities is ripe for the buying. Our pick for best under-the-radar shops is Endless Knot (2300 First…
Home Decor Stores We Love
Whether you’re into brand-new, modern style or love the heavy patina of vintage pieces, Seattle and its environs have plenty of stores to help kit out your pad. Davenport (Madison Park, 1137 34th Ave.; 206.454.7582; davenportmadrona.com), the newest project by cousins and business partners Dustin Nelson and Erica Sheehan, owners of nearby Hitchcock Madrona, is…
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Kate Wallich
Choreographer Kate Wallich starts with stillness
Dance performances are often loosely described as “entrancing,” the word implying something akin to “compelling.” But viewers watching the work of Seattle choreographer Kate Wallich often actually feel as if they are going into a trance. “I hear that a lot,” says Wallich, 24. Whether a hypnotist or just highly skilled (maybe both), the 2010…
Beauty Break: Bespoke Colour Collection from Butter London
!–paging_filter–pIn the last few years, we’ve all become much more brave with our nail polish color choices, forgoing basic, boring red with all shades of blues, greens, yellows and more done up with crystals, stripes and other patterns, textures, pictures. The possibilities are endless./ppLocal nail polish brand, a href=”http://www.butterlondon.com/home/” target=”_blank”Butter London/a, has been at the…
Jason Wu Talks Miss Wu
!–paging_filter–pJason Wu was at a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/bellevue-collection“Bellevue Square/a a few weeks ago to support the launch of a href=”http://shop.nordstrom.com/c/miss-wu-fall-2013-lookbook” target=”_blank”Miss Wu/a, his diffusion (or secondary) line found exclusively at a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/nordstrom“Nordstrom/a and on a href=”http://shop.nordstrom.com/” target=”_blank”nordstrom.com/a. We caught up with the designer before the event and chatted about Seattle, designing dolls and the whimsy of Miss…
Up/NXT Portland’s Emerging Designer Contest
!–paging_filter–pWhile Seattle has some great fashion shows, both for designers and retailers, Seattle Fashion Week has fallen by the wayside. Portland, however, has two fashion weeks, a href=”http://www.fashionxt.net/” target=”_blank”FashioNXT/a and a href=”http://portlandfashionweek.net/” target=”_blank”Portland Fashion Week/a. (FashioNXT was Portland Fashion Week until this year and FashioNXT’s executive producer Tito Chowdhury has led the charge for years….
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Peter Mountford
Novelist Peter Mountford believes money matters
Writer Peter Mountford has a bone to pick with American literature. The Ballard-based father of two young girls, whose debut novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, won the 2012 Washington State Book Award, is baffled by the fact that one subject remains taboo in fiction writing: money. Sitting in his wedge of an…