Boulder and the Beautiful

This is what happens when you combine a corset with houndstooth print.

Designer Colcci, you are brilliant.

Corsets in wintery prints, colors and fabrics is a great way to transition the style into the winter. Featured Sunday at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Question: Can a Mohawk be glamorous? High fashion and elegant, appropriate to wear to a ball or wedding or tea with the Queen?

Answer: See photo and allow your opinion of the hawk to be forever changed. This get-up, by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier for his spring/summer 2011 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris today, is one of the most elegant outfits I’ve ever seen. Yes, even with all of that exposed flesh.

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Shop: Delphinium Design (www.etsy.com/people/delphiniumdesign and www.delphdesign.com) features one-of-a-kind jewelry handmade out of vintage items and various items, such as beads, ribbon, leather and chain. All items are reasonably priced and unique, with a vintage flair. The Delphdesign.com page also sells leather cuffs and western-style leather and turquoise  wrap-around necklaces.

The face behind the shop: Mysti Gulsrud, a wedding florist in Longmont. Gulsrud is a mom of two young boys and lifelong jewelry-maker. She says she loves piecing together old things to make new creations. All of her products as a labor of love, she says.
“Like a beautiful bridal bouquet, I love to see the right elements put together in a visually pleasing way,” Gulsrud says.

Price range: $7 (for vintage-button rings) to $26 (for necklaces).

Favorite items: For sweet and feminine: An heirloom-style brass locket embellished with a vintage button and purple seam-binding ribbon, $24. Or the “filigree birdie,” a delicate, gold bird necklace hanging from a floral piece, accented with pearls, $22.
For a more edgier look, check out the Box Chain and Birds necklace, made out of several layers of chain, carnelian beads and bird charms, $26.

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A lot of things.

If 50 percent of the folks will tolerate you, then I consider that success. Nothing ever worth doing is done for popularity.

Here is something I just ran across that I thought I should post here to boost my PR. Because if I don’t do it, God knows no one else will.

Every Friday I read Aimee Heckle’s column in the Camera. She writes about fashion. One look at me and you’d wonder why I would read such a column. Here’s why: I love her writing. It is said (I can’t remember by whom) that any content is interesting when written by a good writer. I offer her blog link. Give her a read: http://boulderandthebeautiful.com/

Thanks VernaWilder.typepad.com, a woman who “gave up a Cube job for the limitless chaos and promising instability of the writing life.”

Promising instability? Oh Verna, it’s not promising. It’s guaranteed! Trust me. I just tried to pay bills. This process used to be depressing, but at some point, desperation must morph into hilarity — for survival.  So I laugh and eat Spaghetti Oh’s until payday. (Except for tonight, which is special: Spaghetti Oh’s with meat hunks.)