S. Denise Hoyle | May 21, 2009
BurdaStyle is giving you a chance to showcase your talent! Send in your design sketches, along with a short essay on why your design is perfect for you, as well as for other BurdaStyle members. The design categories include – women, women’s plus, men, children and accessories.Accepted designs will be produced into a Burda pattern [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 19, 2009
ByKidsOnly.com is a beautifully designed website full of bright, kid-friendly colors and designs, that was created to allow kids to express themselves through fashion. The site encourages kids to design their own fashions and upload them to the site for others to vote on their favorite designs, like the one pictured here by Shira, age 12.This [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 5, 2009
The fifth annual Wedding Dress Contest runs from now through June 5, 2009 so get your toilet paper rolls, scissors, tape and glue ready to win! The contest is sponsored by Ripley’s Believe It or Not and has cash prizes as follows – 1st Place winner will receive $1,000, 2nd Place winner gets $500 and [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | April 7, 2009
Fans of the TV series Burn Notice have been snapping up a belt bag worn by the show’s character Fiona Glenanne, played by Gabrielle Anwar. Since the show featuring the belt bag aired on March 5th, interested fans have searched the social networks and search engines to find out where they can get one of [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 31, 2009
Judy Clark, an obstetrics nurse in Fort Worth, came up with the idea for fashionable clear handbags while she was at work. She’d noticed that clear backpacks and tote bags had become very popular as more hospitals, schools and retail establishments began requiring them for security purposes, but the designs she’d been seeing were far [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 24, 2009
Quite often I have outfits in my mind that I want to make for myself or for the kids, but I can’t find the fabric that I’m picturing in my head. Then along comes Spoonflower with the ingenious idea of printing fabric on demand based on the customer’s design.The current handmade revolution is evident everywhere [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 20, 2009
Kim Ellis-Durity quit a successful career and quit smoking a decade ago to make a change in her life so she became a fitness instructor. On her way to getting fit, at 200 pounds and five feet nine inches tall, Ellis-Durity had trouble finding fashionable, comfortable workout clothes that fit her.She felt ignored and frustrated [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 19, 2009
Neal Way was a truck driver for ten years when the ever increasing price of diesel fuel caused him to look for a different line of work. Way says he learned all about sewing and design from his mother, that she drafted her own patterns and made it look so easy that even “a dummy like [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | February 24, 2009
Sarah Jo Saunders has been sewing since she was a teenager and says she is “completely self taught” when she talks about her fashion design. Saunders never wanted to settle for mass-produced clothing so she got started by designing and sewing her own outfits. She has since decided to go for her dream and opened Jo Clothing, an [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | February 19, 2009
Maria Pinto is hardly new to the business with over 20 years of experience as a fashion designer, but even though she’s well known in Chicago she has only recently gained national exposure thanks to Michelle Obama wearing her pieces on the campaign trail last year. (check out our previous post on Pinto)Well last week [...]
