One of the questions I am most frequently asked is: “What should I wear as the mother of the bride?” Well, there were two ideal examples at the Royal wedding: Carole Middleton, mother of the bride and Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall, stepmother of the groom. Carole Middleton wore a beautiful sky blue dress
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Has a wedding gown ever been so awaited? For months fashion prognosticators have anticipated what Kate Middleton would wear. Many designers had already begun sketching what it might look like and creating gowns to mimic the trends they anticipated it would set off. That, according to a Ruth LaFerla story in last Sunday’s New York Times.
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The thing about hats is that they should enhance a woman’s face rather than obscuring it. Here, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson’s hat, although a bright bold color, takes your eyes right to her eyes and highlights her face. The pink and purple hat to her right, however, makes you look first at the hat, then at the
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For the moment, suffice to say that Kate Middleton…oops…the Duchess of Cambridge…got it absolutely, 100 percent…perfect! And so did Sarah Burton, who designed her gown. She could not have chosen a more ideal designer for this modern woman at her fairy tale princess wedding. More later…I must run off to KITV and KHON right now! -
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The speculation about Kate Middleton’s wedding gown has reached a fever pitch. I’ll be staying up late tonight to see THE GOWN and the fashions of the wedding party and to report on it all tomorrow morning at 6:45 on KITV with Mahealani Richardson. Join us – it should be fun. I’ll then rush over to
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Manoa Valley Theatre’s next play, August: Osage County is an absolute must-see. Jerry and I saw it on Broadway and it was, by far, the best play we have seen in many, many years. The critics and media seem to agree. Playwright Tracy Letts won the Pulitzer Prize for it. It won “Best Play” in the Tony
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It’s particularly hard being a U.H.-Manoa senior in the Apparel Design and Mechandising Department (APDM) this year. The competition for an audience has been fierce. Honolulu Community College (HCC) pulled out all the stops as Andy South, who teaches the fashion production class, invited four of his Project Runway Season 8 friends to join him
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Donna Place of Long Beach, California, a master trainer in Gyrotonics, will introduce her class, Gyrokinesis, on Saturday, May 7, from noon to 2 p.m. at On Balance Studio, 315 Uluniu Street, suite 201, in Kailua (upstairs from Cinnamon’s Restaurant). Gyrokinesis exercise enables the body to go through exercises that address seven natural elements of spinal movement: forward,
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Lynda Caris, designer of Muse IX Designs jewelry, will show her latest collection, inspired by the ocean and lei of the Islands, in a trunk show at Macy’s Ala Moana, Viewpoint Department, on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Always growing and evolving with her work, Caris collects beads, findings and gemstones all around the world.
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With Mother’s Day gifting in mind, Tapestries Pearlridge is holding two trunk shows this week: Naturally Yours and Naturally Petite Thursday, April 28 - Monday, May 2 and… Meet Honolulu jewelry designer Kaila Kennedy Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All prepaid trunk show orders will receive a 15%
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