Oh joy! “Joie de Vivre,” Lethbridge Fashion Week’s spring theme, is set for this weekend at the Lethbridge Legion.
Also, Lethbian Love is not becoming a fashion blog. It’s just a time to celebrate old man winter releasing his stranglehold grip upon Southern Alberta! It’s kinda ironic though, since the Legion smells like old spice and scotch, not spring blossoms and pheromones.
I met Jessica randomly one day on my way back from lunch. She was sitting with an acquaintance of mine, drawing patterns for her fashion class. With her cool tattoos and a dress made from a found skirt, I saw that she had a great style (and an even better smile). She’s pretty natural behind the camera too.
Occupation:
Fashion Design Student, Creative Thinker.
Where’d your outfit come from?
Nearly each layer came from a different place. The shoes were a gem found at Value Village, legwear from Ardenes, shorts from somewhere in California, cardigan and scarf from Wal-Mart, jacket was from Ricki’s and I got my t-shirt when I saw the Vancouver-based band The Jolts play…and then I cut it up.
Style Influences:
Everything: my mood that day, the season, friends, strangers, what music I’ve been listening to, magazines, vintage, comfort, self-expression…I was asked today how I picked my outfits in the morning and I didn’t really know how to answer. I just try stuff on until I’m happy, which is also why I can’t keep my room clean.
Something about me:
I cut my own hair. I like vinyls. And tattoos. I’m good with animals and children. I’m a BC girl, born and raised. I’m pretty weird, but people seem to like it. I like individuals and quirks.
More photos after the jump! Continue reading ‘My Style L.A. featuring Jessica’
For some time, I’ve seen this cute “cat-eared girl” about the hallways of the college. After some sleuthing via my Lethbridge connections, I was finally able to track her down and get in touch with the girl, who’s coincidentally named Kat.
Occupation:
Student, coat check/beer tub girl.
Where’d your outfit come from?
My cardigan and dress both came from Sapporo, Japan.
Style Influences:
Style influences are Harajuku street fashion mixed with gothic/punk/sweet lolita.
Something about me:
Something about me is that I am obsessed with cats, and zombies. I collect zombie movies, and my favourite zombie director is George A. Romero.
Hit the jump for a couple of other shots! Continue reading ‘My Style L.A. featuring Kat’
Lethbridge Fashion Weekend, where "cold gets cool," starts tomorrow evening with a hot & sexy fashion show, and continues the next day with an exclusive sale of original clothing and accessories.
The Lethbian Lover, who has an affinity for camel toe, will be taking in the show as per usual. It will be held at 7PM the Lethbridge Legion, so you may see me standing at attention.
Edit Shoppe and modernegg are presenting the 2nd annual MADE this Friday. Both local and Southern Alberta vendors will be selling modern and stylish items the night of the Downtown Bright Lights Festival. It’s a great event to find some unique holiday gifts.
So one of the blogs that I faithfully check out and am constantly inspired by is The Sartorialist. I love the idea of random street style sightings, and am lucky enough to have wonderfully stylish customers walk into my shop every day.
Over the next few months, I’m hoping to document some of the stylish new people that I meet, and share their style here. I even have the very talented Jaime Vedres behind the lens.
Here’s one that we shot this past July, it’s just taken us a bit to get all the pieces together!
Name: Marguerite
Occupation: Student
Where is your outfit from: Unknown Designer from Nicholai
Style Icons: Kate Moss, Agyness Deyn and sometimes just people that I happen to see on the street!
Something about me: I love shopping at random thrift stores and altering the clothes to fit the look I’m going for. Fashion can be so much fun, and that’s why I love it!
If you follow Lethbian Love much, most likely you noticed that I have mentioned Joanne Maharaj Lewis and her Edit Shoppe a few times.
Some time back, she and I had an idea to do a Lethbridge version of The Sartorialist/LOOKBOOK.nu, featuring some of the better-dressed citizens who grace our streets from time to time. They really exist, and we will prove it!
Joanne took a headstart and has been profiling a few people, which she’ll be contributing to Lethbian Love for “My Style L.A.”
Watch for the next post and welcome aboard, Joanne!
Last night, an @reply on Twitter introduced me to the love of me life – Kate a.k.a SexyKat. She’s a fashion design student with big knockers who, ironically, likes to wear nothing! And she’s from Lethbridge.
Even sweeter – so not only is she from our beloved city, but so is her “sluttier” Latina friend Cindy! What luck I have!
Yves Saint Laurent once said, “Fashion fades, style is eternal.” That’s what I keep having to remind myself as I tighten my leather belt and chew off the end. “La mode récession,” as I like to call it.
This Friday and Saturday is LFW’s Spring ’09 event, starting tomorrow night with a fashion show featuring 8 local designers and enough skin to craft me a new pair of shoes! It’s Lethbridge’s premier fashion weekend, featuring the city’s top fashion designers, upcoming talent and exclusive fashion sales.
Sadly, the event this year is dry, so make sure to do like the models and load up beforehand.
Lethbridge Fashion Week
(Nice website, huh? I made it!)
Like I’ve said before, I’m quite fashionable. This spring, I forecast that the “urban barrel” will take Lethbridge by storm in all this season’s hottest colours. That is, if we ever get away from this cursed snow!
But surely things will heat up Saturday night, as Lethbridge College’s Fashion Design & Marketing students hold their annual fashion show, Illuminate.
More than 160 garments designed and constructed by the students, plus silent auction and booths/tables featuring handcrafted items for sale; proceeds go to scholarships or charity.
The show is at 7PM in the D.A. Electric Barn. Overpriced tickets are $20, available at the LCSA office in the college’s Centre Core. But I guess $20 isn’t bad, considering it goes to charity. And you get to ogle college girls in bathing suits.