Jewelry designer Stacey Johnson has made her Statement in the North Loop, and it’s inviting. The front display case is filled with Johnson’s simply stylish jewelry, but she’s filled the rest of her long, skinny storefront with women’s apparel, handbags, soaps, fragrances, home decor, and other gifts. The vibe is West Coast casual–think cropped cargos…
Men Get All the Cool Events
Men’s retail has the momentum in the Twin Cities, thanks to hometown brands like Pierrepont Hicks, created by Kat and Mac McMillan, who do not believe in taking a weekend off. Lucky us: the masterminds behind NorthernGrade and SnowGrade love to pop up in cool settings around town, and team up with other…
Office Envy
My colleague, Delta Sky fashion editor Elizabeth Doyle, and I plan to become office crashers. We won’t bother anyone, or eat candy that isn’t ours (not much, anyway), and we are quite neat. All we ask is to be inspired by our surroundings–the furnishings, the view. Better space makes better performers. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.
Liz and I were struck…
Guild’s Got Spirit
You can’t keep a born retailer out of the stores. Just a couple of months after closing her longtime 50th & France boutique, Spirit, owner Marilyn Goodman has popped up at Guild. “I told everybody I would probably reappear,” says Goodman, who has been in retail for 40 years. “I went…
Well Adorned
I was drawn to Gretchen Ventura’s exotic bracelets on the Minneapolis designer’s own wrists last week at the Ritz Theater’s Fashion Ball. She fuses raw Indian diamonds and African beads for one-of-a-kind creations distinct enough to stand alone, or extra cool stacked together. See for yourself during a Night of Adornment, Thursday, April 26, 6…
Housewives United
Nearly a year after their splash (stir?) on the July 2011 cover of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, our “Twin Cities Housewives” finally met the man who gave birth to the hit franchise: BravoTV’s Andy Cohen. He was in town Saturday to speak at an event for the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. “So this is my group!” he said when he met the five. ”What would I…
Found My Red
What a difference red lips make! I’ve long been a plum/pink girl (could stock an entire makeup counter with my empty tubes of MAC Odyssey …if I didn’t recycle them for freebies, that is). But on a whim, I amped up in red, and I can’t believe the reaction. People notice red. That’s probably…
Cooks of Crocus Hill in Stillwater
Finally official: Cooks of Crocus Hill is taking over Chef’s Gallery in Stillwater. The store closed today, April 18, for inventory and will re-open with an inventory reduction sale on April 25. The cooking school will remain open during the transition.
Stillwater represents a third location for Cooks of Crocus Hill, which is also in St. Paul and Edina. And it will be a…
Oval Room, Revisited
Overhead at Nordstrom on Saturday: Two fancy young women in the shoe department ruing the the downtown Minneapolis department store that once was. “Macy’s in downtown is so bad now,” one said. The other sighed in agreement.
You don’t hear complaints like that every day anymore–we’ve come to accept that Macy’s has been running the crown jewel of Nicollet Mall into the ground. Our glorious…
The Happiest of Hours
My kind of Happy Hour: Starting this week, Ivy Spa Club is adding hair services to its Tuesday Happy Hour deals. Every Tuesday, from 4 to 8 p.m., get 20 percent off haircuts and color. You’ve got four hours, so why not take advantage of 20 percent off massages and facials as well? The…
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