Archive for January, 2010
Maverick Style
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If you haven’t heard, there is a new website out there starting to make rumblings. It’s called Maverick Style and it’s focusing on all the ‘best of the West’ including:
art & photography
events
music
fashion
home furnishings
jewelry
gifts
and fine purveyors of such
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Maverick Style is the long time dream of founder Christin Miller. Christin is bringing her background with [...]
Double Dating for February
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DoubleTake: January 1990
DoubleTake is a fun monthly feature looking back at the pages of 1990 Vogue and reminiscing about Double D Ranch’s fledgling start up year.
Won’t you giggle along with me as I do a “double take” look at fashion and celebrate our 20th anniversary?
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Vogue, January 1990
Editor: Anna Wintour
Newsstand Price: $3 bucks
Cover Model: Tatiana Patitz [...]
Branding our 20th Anniversary
2 decades
20 years
20 spring collections
20 fall collections
240 issues of Vogue
2000 jacket style numbers
too many gray hair
a lot of smiles
a lot of tears
never enough friends
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Can you believe it has been twenty years? That’s right, Double D Ranch™ is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary this year and boy has it been a ride!
Twenty [...]
Más Shisha Mirror
I want to continue on from my last post on shisha mirrors so today it’s about the Shisha Mirror Tee. It is a little v-neck tee in a longer silhouette and is made up in a new textured slubby jersey. It comes in bunches of colors like india ivory, bavarian berry, dark ming green, and [...]
Design History 101: Shisha Mirrors
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a definite collector piece
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The Shisha Mirror Jacket is Double D Ranch’s™ key jacket for the season and the handwork on it is amazing. We incorporated shisha mirror embroidery and traditional chain-stitch embroidery on a spring-weight canvas. There are over 350 mirrors on this jacket – all hand done.
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Incredible!
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Shisha mirror work or alba [...]
Dallas Market Windows
Jack: Fearfully & Wonderfully Made
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Jack posted this picture to his Facebook page this afternoon. He is in Washington, D.C. with a bunch of buddies participating in the 2010 Walk For Life event. They started this morning on the National Mall and marched all the way to the Supreme Court Building. He called to say he was on TV, cold, [...]
Suzy Menkes: That’s it FOREVER
This morning I came across an interesting and relevant video interview with fashion editor Suzy Menkes. If you you’re asking yourself, “who is Suzy Menkes,” here is my Suzy Menkes for Dummies:
Fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune
Contributing editor to select prime fashion rags
Attends over six hundred fashion shows a year
Very influential
British
Known for [...]
My New York, Cashmere Life
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Today I attended a fashion-forecasting seminar in New York.
I wore my very favorite red cashmere. Long, belted, and shawl collared. I like to dress up a bit for New York since it is the pinnacle of US fashion, and the fact that I would be joining others in the fashion industry.
You [...]
