New Seattle Bride on newsstands!

Photograph by Tom Barwick; Bouquet by Aria Style
I am so pleased with the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Seattle Bride magazine, which hit newsstands on Friday. The magazine is chock full of wedding goodness and celebrates our 10th Anniversary to boot. Not bad for a start-up local bridal publication!

Photograph by Elke Van de Velde for Ajentse
As usual, a big shout-out goes to the amazing team of talented women who make up the Seattle Bride team and the dozens of creative local wedding vendors, without whom our magazine would have no legs on which to stand. Kudos to all!

Seattle Bride on the radio!

Image by Elke Van de Velde for Ajentse

Tune into to "The Flow" on KKNW 1150 a.m. today at 2 p.m. to hear me chat with 7 Salon owner Rodger Azadganian about bridal trends in the Northwest and get a sneak preview of what's in the upcoming Fall/Winter issue of Seattle Bride!

Sex and the City: The Perfect Wedding Movie?

(Craig Blankenhorn/The Kobal Coll)
At the risk of spoiling the storyline of Sex and the City: The Movie, which I saw along with at least 1,000 other devoted women (and about 3 gay men) at the Meridian in Seattle last night, I'm going out on a limb here and saying that it just may be the perfect wedding movie. (I assume you've all seen the trailers by now, of Carrie in a wedding dress, so I won't reveal whether or not it's a real wedding or with whom—but there are Big surprises, natch.) Feel free to chime in on this one, but what I loved most about the movie—and it was perfect and brilliant and hilarious and sexy, from start to finish, by the way, no matter what the reviewers are saying—was its overall theme of forgiveness and honesty. The storyline has some incredibly powerful moments dealing with the highs and lows of relationships and really reinforced my belief (and that of the rest of the Seattle Bride mag team) that weddings are about planning a marriage first and a party second. That none of the tulle and frills and favors and flavors matter if the relationship of the two people involved isn't based on complete acceptance.

Oh, and did anyone else think that the city of Seattle completely dropped the ball in catering to the gajillions of women who turned Pike and Pine into a virtual catwalk last night? Thumbs up to all the ladies, because in my 16 years living here I can't think of a single other event that brought so much style and fashion to our city streets. The people-watching was amazing, to say the least, and only ONE nearby bar (Von's) had a SATC (cosmopolitan) promotion (and we had to ask for it), single men seemed to be avoiding the area like the plague (the fools!), and I saw none of the press shooting pics of all the fashion, beauty and energy (the Times, PI, et al, really missed out on reporting on this super cool happening of women). Maybe the Pike/Pine street-fashion blog will cover it but as of today there's nothing on the site. I wish I had brought my camera because I would love to share images of the endless parade of killer style Seattle women put out there last night!

Seattle Bride vs. Dinner Impossible

Tune in tonight to watch Dinner Impossible on the Food Network at 10 p.m. (or in re-runs all week). Super stylist, and lifestyle and entertaining expert Kelley Moore and Seattle Bride Magazine teamed up with the crew at Dinner Impossible to help a couple plan a lightening-fast five-star wedding. In fact, the whole affair was planned in just under five weeks! Kudos to the team at Seattle Bride and Kelley Moore for rounding up an amazing group of altruistic Seattle-area wedding vendors, who donated their time and services to the couple so that they could get married in time to have the bride's father—who was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness—attend the nuptials.

Dinner Impossible is calling the show "Culture-Clash Wedding" in reference to the bride and groom's mixed heritage. Seattle Bride is probably calling it A Day of Gratitude in our upcoming issue in which the story is featured. Pick up a copy when it comes out in July and judge for yourself: Which story is better: TV or Print?!

The History of Skirts continues…

(One of my favorite Spring 2008 Gary Graham skirts)

On Thursday I received an exciting email from a producer at 1TV in the UK about a five-part series the station is doing on the History of Fashion, and she invited me to participate as their resident "expert" on the history of skirts. It turns out that they are dedicating an entire film to skirt history, mostly 20th and 21st century skirts. Since I've written what might be the only book on the topic, they asked me to come on board. Well, wouldn't you know it, the segment is taping this Friday, April 25, and sadly I don't have the means to jet over there before then. Still, I'm really excited that they are putting this series together and I can't wait to see the show after it airs around May 1. The producer has offered to send me a copy sometime later that month, so stay tuned: I might post a little snippet from the section on skirts!

Cycle Chic in Textile View magazine

This post is a little overdue but my article Cycle Chic was published in the current issue of Textile View. I think it turned out pretty great. Thanks to the dozens of cyclists from Seattle to San Diego who schooled me on the history of fixies and the evolution of cycle chic.

Moore News

Well, this sure was a nice surprise in today's mail. I opened up Moore News, the quarterly magazine from my alma mater, Moore College of A&D, and saw a little article about the chat I gave to some of the fashion and textile students there last October (click on the image to read the story). I love the article and am so happy to have a picture with my three favorite teachers and mentors, Michael, Deborah and Lewis. Coming back to Moore was certainly a career highlight. Thanks again to everyone at Moore who set it up and to the writer of this neat piece!