Fashion

By Jessica Yadegaran/Contra Costa Times WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Move over iPhone, the wristwatch is back. A wave of statement-making timepieces has renewed interest in this classic men’s accessory. A vintage gold Rolex or a modern Devon Works Tread with conveyor belts not only tells time – it tells you something about the man wearing [...]

   The Gazette Duluth, Minn. – Brianna Palumbo, 20, of Cedar Rapids has been selected as one of 12 winners in Maurices Main Street Model Search. Palumbo will model for the young women’s fashion retailer in an upcoming fashion campaign. Palumbo is a full-time student at Kirkwood Community College. As a Maurices Main Street Model, she [...]

By Aimée Blanchette/Star Tribune (Minneapolis) MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly 45 minutes of tugging and twisting with blasts of high heat left Stephanie Rigley’s thick, coarse, strawberry-blonde hair wrapped around boar-bristle brushes — 13 of them — all jutting in different directions around her head. The 39-year-old Orono mother of three perked up in the salon chair [...]

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz/Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — No matter how meticulously you plan the flowers, the music and the seating chart, your wedding day has a way of throwing a curveball — such as when your college roommate, seized by a moment of OMG-I-can’t-believe-you’re-getting-married! enthusiasm, accidentally sloshes her red wine onto your wedding dress. Wedding planner [...]

By Debra D. Bass/St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aside from Popsicles and pedicures, the easiest way to embrace spring is to slip into something colorful. Why should the sun get all the attention? Let it be your spotlight instead. Sure, you’ve been eyeing that orange top, coral maxi skirt, lime belt, neon pink shoe, but you just [...]

By Elizabeth Wellington/The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — Skinny, colored jeans are more than this spring’s fashion must-have — they are becoming the apparel industry’s savior. Or at least that’s what the pants feel like to retailers who, after nearly four years of dismal women’s clothing sales, finally are experiencing an uptick. “It’s just been fabulous,” [...]

By Deborah Netburn/Los Angeles Times Nokia Corp. is taking steps to make sure that you never miss another phone call, text or email alert again: The company has filed a patent for a tattoo that would send “a perceivable impulse” to your skin whenever someone tries to contact you on the phone. According to the [...]

By Booth Moore/Los Angeles Times “The Hunger Games” is a visual smorgasbord of a movie, a cast of hundreds dressed in everything from utilitarian garb with Depression-era grit to glam-gone-grotesque Gaga get-ups inspired by the latest haute couture. Then there’s that dress worn by the young heroine Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) that goes up in flames. [...]

By Elizabeth Wellington/The Philadelphia Inquirer There was a time when white cotton undies reminded me of my dad. In other words, definitely not fashionable. And so . . . not . . . hot. But then there was Mario Lopez posing for his underwear line Rated M. And Tim Tebow for Jockey. And David Beckham [...]

Lydia Thies, 25, Iowa City Sales @ Velvet Coat Lydia Thies’ fashion is inspired both by the art world and the past. As a salesperson at Iowa City’s Velvet Coat she has firsthand access to fashionable finds. But as an artist she can’t help but put her own touch on them. “I have been working [...]