Tag: fashion

Morgan Kylee Henzlik makes no apologies for wanting to shake up Atlanta’s shopping culture. The twenty-six-year-old entrepreneur opened her eponymous boutique in mid-August with a promise to provide something different from the conventional women’s styles that are saturating Buckhead stores.

He’s only twenty-five, but designer (and Atlanta native) Wes Gordon has already made quite a name for himself in high fashion.

In the fickle world of women’s fashion boutiques, reaching the quarter-century mark is as implausible as finding a Birkin bag at a yard sale. So how is it possible that Sandpiper has been around for twenty-five years?

Enough with austerity. This fall, bright blocks of color cheer up any wardrobe. We take inspiration from European automakers who, after World War II, coped with material shortages by producing tiny cars that were very big on style.

Online shops are popping up all over, thanks to low overhead costs and an economy that can be brutal on brick-and­-mortar start-ups. In Atlanta, e-boutiques are carving out city-centric identities.

Take a close look at the fashion on this season of Gossip Girl, and you’re bound to notice the hats worn by the ladies of the Upper East Side. There’s the 1930s gangster-style fedora, called the Evita. Or there’s the sun hat, known as the Wailea, making a cameo in the season finale.

Known for its exuberant Bianca Coletti and Énui dresses, Decatur’s decade-old darling moved into Brookhaven in March. Boogaloos’ second location reflects Brookhaven (see our neighborhoods package for more info on Brookhaven) as much as the original mirrors Decatur.

Let’s hear it for shopping in the suburbs. Wear, which we declared the best OTP boutique of 2010, has finally secured its own digs now that Johns Creek’s Red Twig has closed. Duluth’s T., with labels such as Rag & Bone, gets better with age. And earlier this year, Roswell welcomed another hip destination.

To the list of things computers can do for you, now add “organize your wardrobe.” It’s Cher’s outfit-choosing PC from Clueless in real life—almost. East Cobb denizen Jody Fennell initiated Fashion-Ade in 2008 as a program to help people figure out how to best utilize their clothing cache.

Historic Roswell’s newest addition, the consignment shop Vintage & Vogue, sells retro pieces from bygone eras (the “vintage”) alongside contemporary styles from prominent designers (the “vogue”).