Walk, walk, fashion baby

What a marvelous Colorado weekend...

Mine started off with quite a bang at the Fashion Denver Open House on Friday night.
First of all, Fashion Denver is doing amazing things for Colorado designers and for the 'industry' as a whole, if you haven't checked out their website/store/facebook page yet, then you need to.
The new space is fabulous, very spacious, nicely decorated, and an overall visual joy. I don't know much about the previous store, but it must be quite the victory to be growing out of a smaller venue and into this one.

There were a fair number of the FD designers attending the event, which was nice, attendees were able to mingle with the designers, talk fashion, maybe even buy something.
As promised, Rebelle by Tootsies Hair Salon and Tootsies Nail Shoppe were there touching up make up, dolling out men's quick shaves, painting nails, and of course enjoying the party as much as the rest of us. And finally, if you got there early enough to be able to walk to the back of the shop, Hypnotiq had some of their girls bartending and passing out Hypno gift bags.
The event was very well attended, lively, fun (I loved the min-mock-Parisian-fashion shows,) and made me want to be a part of practically everything Fashion Denver has to offer.

You can check their website out for more information or just go visit them at 1070 Bannock Street.

Cheers! Happy Monday!

All images: Copyright Brianna Maya Charles

 

My heart be beating over

Warning: this is a seriously addictive website.

If you have any deadlines at work, house cleaning to do, parties or meetings to attend in the next 4-6 hours, I would suggest postponing a visit to this site on a later date.
Say a nice, calm, Sunday evening or something...

With that being said...
If you love fashion, have ever considered styling, used to adore paper dolls, have a speedy internet connection, and as aforementioned, have a vast amount of free time on your hands, then surf on, fashionistas:

Looklet

You have to have a (free) account in order to save outfits, rate others, or enter styling contests, but you can look and play all you want sans sign-up. Looklet has been growing and improving continuiously since May 2009 when I began using it. They add clothing nearly every day, models ever so often, and have styling contests (with prizes!) at least once a month. It's delish.

If you fall in love with a piece you're using on your little digital model, you can either go directly to the site of the designer via link or can use Looket's provided information to Google it. Ingenious.

The only downsides are homogeneous body types, digital flaws (with fit or with placement,) and their failure to delve into the male side of things.

My creative, ever-whirring mind has created a mental list of ways they could improve, but you know, as usual, they didn't ask me. AND they're pretty damn awesome so far, so rock on.

If you want some inspiration and a little glimpse into my 'lookbook,' then here I am.

And for your viewing pleasure, a few recent looks from my site:

Image Source: Looklet.com/Breezy3

Fashion, put it all on me

Well

This is the 'official' big announcement- from this day forward Caos y Belleza will be a... dun dun dun... FASHION blog. That's right ladies and gentlemen.

I am very grateful to everyone who followed my adventures in the wonderful Buenos Aires, and now I will venture into another sphere of the world(wide web, that is.)

This will be a mix of great online deals on fashion, what other amazing bloggers have their well-trained eyes on, what's to come, what's fleeting season to season, the hottest trends and designs, street fashion, wonderful photography and frankly, anything that catches my Magpie-like eye.

All images I use (unless I mark them as otherwise) are not mine, they are copy-written, and I will do my best to share their copyrights, as well as the site that I scooped them off of. If I use my own work, which I hope to do, I would love it if whoever pulls my pictures off the blog will offer the same courtesy to me.


Enjoy, my fellow fashionistas!