Not sure what to wear this New Year’s Eve?? Find something fabulous at Elan Style with 20% off all holiday dresses. The event also includes:

Up-Do Demos with Brillare Hairdressing Academy

False Eyelash Demos

Cupcakes

Champagne and More!!

I’ll be there as well and am always happy to give styling advice!!

See you Thursday! Happy Holidays!!

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.

The Power of DRES, co-authored by Kira Brown and the ladies of the DRES Styling System now available for purchase for $18 by emailing kira@fashionphoenix.com.

If you are looking for inspiration for your style, this book is for you! From a select group of fashion stylists, trained in the DRES System founded by Margaret Spencer, this book details how to find your fashion and style and provides inspiration for both.

Barbara Corcoran, Real Estate Mogul and Businesswoman featured on NBC’s Shark Tank endorsed the Power of DRES by saying, “The Power of DRES is a brilliant collection of short stories that teaches women how to feel confident and look beautiful.”

Fashion Phoenix founder and The Shoperone, Kira Brown, was selected to write the “Trends” chapter of the book.

To purchase your copy of The Power of DRES, email kira@fashionphoenix.com

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!

For a $10 donation, clients can choose from one of five shades of pink hair extension. It only takes a few minutes to apply the extension and clients can come back any time and Brillare will remove the extension at no charge.  There are two locations:  the Scottsdale Quarter and Ahwatukee (I-10 and Chandler Blvd.)  Brillare has raised more than $1,500 so far.

Brillare Hairdressing Academy’s Phoenix and Scottsdale locations are teaming up with the “Pink Hair For Hope” campaign to offer clients a lock of SHE by SO.CAP.USA’s signature pink hair extension added to their own locks for a $10 donation. 100% of the net proceeds go to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

Go pink now through October 31st at both Brillare Hairdressing Academy locations. Learn more here at BrillareAcademy.com.

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! 

Nearly two years after owner Lisa Looney opened her first location in South Chandler, KatyBug Faye has achieved a strong local following and gained a reputation for offering fashionable and on-trend styles at a reasonable price. KatyBug Faye has become the East Valley’s go-to boutique for designer denim, flirty and sophisticated tops, colorful dresses and accessories that seamlessly tie an outfit together.

Check out KatyBug Faye online at www.katybugfaye.com. Or visit the new Chandler Shopping location and tell them Fashion Phoenix sent you!

We can’t wait to see this next week!! 

THE HITS AND MISSES OF ONLINE DATING

It’s sexy, it’s fast, it’s easy … but what happens
when online dating hijacks your life? 

Meet Luci: a 21^st-century “Every It Girl” determined to find love online
who winds up seeking answers by talking with more than 150 Internet daters
(young, old, gay, straight, Mormon, Jewish … ).

Their stories combine in this new multi-media show exploring the hits,
the misses and one woman’s addiction to love online.

Praised as “tart, smart and surprisingly tender” by The Denver Post, Date* weaves together the stories of a diverse group of online daters, exploring the human, hilarious and heart-warming quest for love in a hi-tech world where access comes easy but intimacy can be hard to find.

After her own adventures online took a turn, Luciann (Luci) Lajoie picked up a tape recorder and started talking to people about their experiences with online dating. She met with people she knew (and the people they knew, and the people they knew) at coffee shops, bars and pizza joints, and recorded their stories.

After about 60 interviews, Lajoie joined forces with Allison Horsley, Richard Thieriot and Ashlee Temple to conceive a script out of the collected materials. The play was workshopped in New York and at The Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC). It premiered at DCTC’s new venture Off-Center at The Jones in April 2012 and earned rave reviews, including a nomination for “Outstanding New Play” by the Colorado Theatre Guild.

Date* is a new take on the one-woman play format, featuring a live performance by Lajoie and projections of more than 80 actors portraying the people she interviewed.

About Luci:

Luciann Lajoie is a Denver-based actor and writer who created, wrote and stars in Date*. She holds an M.F.A. in acting from Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training and an M.S. in industrial psychiatry and psychology from Kings College, London. Luci performs with Denver Center Theatre Company, Paragon Theatre, Germinal Stage Denver and the Aurora Fox. She also teaches at the University of Denver.

Tickets are available for $29 online at ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or through the Patron Services Box Office at (480) 499-TKTS (8587). A special Date Night Package is being offered that includes two tickets to Date*, two drink tickets and two free tickets to Talk Cinema. Date Night Packages are $58 and are available by telephone only (Promo Code: Date Night) from Sept. 27 to Oct. 23.

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.

6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Screening, followed by discussion by Director

Seating is limited. Purchase tickets at www.tickets.phxart.org.