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Designer / Boutique News! Fashion Denver LOVES LoveThatFit!

Dear Retailers, Designers, Clothing Manufacturers, and Fashionistas,

LoveThatFit is coming to Denver! What is LoveThatFit? We are a website that offers shoppers a way to virtually try on clothes and see how clothes will actually fit on their bodies. They can then share their purchases with friends and family via social media to show off their new outfits. We want to bring Denver Fashion to one spot where locals, visitors, or busy moms can easily access your clothing, stay in touch with your store, and share their excitement for your clothing with others.

If you choose to participate, you will receive:
-An online presence/website
– Additional market reach
– Increased consumer confidence
– Increased consumer loyalty
– Consumers will have the ability to save previous purchases so they can mix and match with future purchases
– Low cost way to have an efficient and profitable presence online
– Enhance the shopping experience for your customers
– Get access to customers you might not have had before
– Get mentioned in a weekly email newsletter plus tri-weekly blog

How It Works

LoveThatFit will come in and photograph the clothing you choose to feature on the site. Then we place your items

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What’s next for Fashion Denver?

What’s in store after we shut the boutique down at the end of January?

Frock Out 2012
I’ve been hired as co-producer of Frock Out 2012, a fashion competition with the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program.  12 designers will be selected from our jury to compete and will show 4 pieces from their current collection and design 1 challenge piece. We are holding auditions this Saturday at Fashion Denver and have over 20 designers signed up to audition. It’s going to be very exciting! The event happens on April 20th.

More info…

Spring / Summer fashion market
I will continue to produce the fashion markets featuring 20-3o Colorado fashion designers. Our fashion markets are held at a fun venue and designers are invited to come and sell and connect.  This spring / summer market (date and location to be determined)  will be our 30th market since 2004. Oh my!!! Each market brings in new designers and it’s really inspiring to see our local fashion scene expand.

The Denver County Fair Fashion Pavilion
I’ve been hired back to work with the Denver County Fair on being their fashion pavilion manager! Last year’s fair made the Washington Post and was … Read more!

Hello Fashion Denver Friends and happy new year to you!

So many new and exciting things are going on over here. Many of you may know by now that we are closing the retail side of things down at the end of January so we can get back to focussing on the business development side of things with our designers.

Fashion Denver will continue to produce our seasonal fashion markets and events and we will continue to work one on one with our local designers helping them build their businesses which continue to contribute to our growing fashion scene.

This year, I’ve been brought on board to co-produce Frock Out 2012 with Chris Loffelmacher of Fresh City Life at the Denver Public Library. I’ll also be the fashion pavilion manager at the Denver County Fair . The current Fashion Denver space will be converted to an entrepreneurial shared space in which I will have my office and workshop space.

OPEN HOUSE CLOSING PARTY

Saturday, January 28th
Open House 11am-6pm
After Party 7pm-11pm

If you haven’t had a chance to come by yet, please visit us before the end of January and check out our 20 designers that we have featured Read more!

Fashion Denver Quickie: A free crash course in getting involved in the Denver fashion scene

Fashion Denver Quickie
Wednesday, January 25th 6:30pm-7:30pm
1070 Bannock Street
Denver, CO 80204
For several years the fashion scene in Denver has been evolving and growing. It is a very exciting place to be for fashion! Colorado is such a supportive city for local fashion, music, and art! Every day we get emails, phone calls, and people stopping by the shop wondering about the following:

1) How can I get involved in the fashion scene in Denver?

2) I’m a designer. What resources are available in Colorado to help me grow my business?

3) Where else can I shop for local designers?

4) Where are the fashion internships in Colorado?

5) Are there fashion schools in Colorado?

Well! I thought it would be a good idea to just invite those with these questions and I can answer all of these questions all the while being surrounded by local fashion and meeting other people in our wonderful city!

You are cordially invited to attend a FREE 1 hour Fashion Denver Quickie and get answers to the above question.

We’ll have beverages and snacks and lots of information!

Join us!

Hope to see you there!… Read more!

Denver’s mini Project Runway: A blast from the past

Tonight I was watching Project Runway All Stars featuring Denver’s Mondo Guerra and it brought me back a few years. In 2007, I was one of the producers on The Fashion Project at Tamarac. Designers competed head to head to win a trip to NYC. Mondo won the competition. In this excerpt, designers had $100.00 to spend at Ace Hardware and made a dress. In Project Runway All Stars, Mondo chose binders, trashbags and tape. In our Ace competition, he used garbage bags, gumballs, and chicken wire. This video brings back memories. Filmed by 2 of my favorite film makers Mas Hacienda and Ben Kronberg and featuring several of Denver’s amazing designers…

Watch the 1st episode of Project Runway All Stars and follow the excitement! You can also watch live at The Beauty Bar every Thursday evening. We are so proud of Mondo and our other past Colorado contestants on Project Runway; Fallene Wells, Julie Tierney, and Gretchen Jones!… Read more!