Thank you to Scottsdale Living Magazine for inviting me to help style the women of the “Cocktail Couture” photo shoot for the Fall 2012 Cover Story on Fall 2012 Fashion Trends.

I fell in love with everything we used, mostly the Herve Leger dress. Wow!! And those Brian Atwood metallic booties were a must!! All clothing was from Nordstrom, Scottsdale Fashion Square.

Read more and see more from the shoot here: Scottsdale Living Magazine.

Shop your heart out with heart because it’s the 13^th annual Care Card week and more than 80 stores at Scottsdale Fashion Square are offering 20% discounts if you purchase a $50 Care Card with proceeds benefitting UMOM.

Attend the complimentary runway fashion shows featuring five participating Care Card retailers: Guess by Marciano, Anthropologie, Ted Baker London and Rebecca Taylor. The Agency AZ models will strut the runway for shoppers who can see the fashion on the runway and shop it in the stores. The fashion show is sponsored by W Scottsdale.

Need a Care Card? Purchase at the fashion shows or in participating stores. For a complete list of participating retailers: www.fashionsquare.com.

WHEN:         Care Card: Now – October 28, 2012

Fashion Shows: 2-5 pm, Saturday, October 27, 2012

      2 pm – Guess by Marciano

      3 pm – Anthropologie

      4 pm – Ted Baker London

      5 pm – Rebecca Taylor

WHERE:      Neiman Marcus/Dillard’s Court at Scottsdale Fashion Square!

The CO-OPhx invites you and yours to join us SUNDAY, October 28, 2012 for our Fall Clothing Swap & Clothing Drive at Frances Boutique and the Medlock Plaza (10 W. Camelback, Phoenix AZ 85013) from 12pm-4pm. Bring up to 10 of your once-loved, still awesome pieces of clothing to exchange for new-to-you ones and as many as you want to donate! There will be food trucks for munching, live music for listening, DIY booths by Carbon Magazine and Hearts.com for crafting and 15% off at Frances Boutique before the swap begins. You don’t want to miss out!

SWAP Schedule: 

12pm-1pm: Check-In and Drop off clothes

1pm-2pm: Pre-Swap fun with food trucks, DIY booths and live music

2pm-3pm: Ready. Set. Swap!

3pm-4pm: “Swap Your Story” and Check-out (Swap Your Story is an opportunity to meet the person you’re swapping with, swappable items will have “Clothing Memory Tags” with a name and special note from the previous owner, this represents a unique way to make a new friend!)

Please also bring donations for ClothingCycle who will weigh your items on site and give prizes to the top 5 Givers including $50 cash and gift cards from local boutiques. Items to donate include: clothes, drapery, stuffed animals, linens, towels and shoes! Not only will all items be donated, but for every pound donated, 15 cents will be donated to Fresh Start Women’s Foundation.

This is a great opportunity that Fashion Phoenix proudly supports and a great way to gather as a community, meet new people, give back and collect some new threads to add to your fall wardrobe. Come pass on your once-loved clothing and swap your story! We hope to see you there! 

Fashion Phoenix along with the DRES System, personal styling and wardrobing academy, is proud to announce the DRES for Success Scholarship Contest, featuring Britany Simon of HGTV’s Design Star!

If you have ever wanted to be a fashion stylist or personal wardrobe consultant and wondered how to be a fashion stylist? Here’s an opportunity to get you started with ONE FREE DRES Stylist Online Training Course to ONE winner of the DRES System Online Styling Academy, valued at $395.

This is the same system that Fashion Phoenix.com Founder and Creator, Kira Brown, completed and it’s packed with detailed information about personal style, how to help others find their best personal style and more! And, it’s super fun!!! Find out more here at www.dressystem.com.

The contest is easy! Just upload a 2-minute video of yourself to YouTube with the title, “DRES for Success Scholarship Contest by Fashion Phoenix,” and email a link to the video to scholarship@fashionphoenix.com. Have fun with your video, introducing yourself, explaining your love of fashion and why you want to win! In your email, also include:

Your Name, Fashion Career Goals, Best Personal Style, Your Fashion Icons,

And whatever other fashionable information you think would help us pick you!!

Official Rules can be found here. Submissions after Monday, October 8th at 12:00pm noon MST will not be considered. So get started!!!

For more information and questions, email scholarship@fashionphoenix.com.

Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FashionPhx and TWEET us up on @fashionphx with #DRES4Success.