Month: May 2022

Listen, I love boots. I practically hold back tears when the sun starts blazing and I’m forced to shove my beloved Chelseas toward the back of my closet, lest my feet start to roast. But summer shoe season does have its benefits—for one, the sheer range of footwear available to shop. Winter’s naturally restrictive; there are only so many styles that can survive multiple months of cold, grey slush. But summer means both open-toed and close-toed designs have free reign. And with so many summer events—vacations, weddings, Hoka Shoes cocktail parties, long walks on the beach, baseball games, casual Fridays at the office—there are more excuses than ever to fill your shopping cart. Of course, that also means there’s a confounding number of options to choose from. Whereas a winter capsu...

Fashion Week ended last week with an emphatic exclamation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander excellence. The First Nations Fashion + Design (FNFD) closing runway highlighted designers from right across Australia. FNFD celebrates independent Indigenous designers and supports their growth and development in the fashion industry. Supported by THE ICONIC, First Nations Fashion + Design Brooks Shoes  wowed a packed crowd on Friday night, with female musicians and a primarily female line-up of designers as a way to explore the matriarchal structure of First Nations' culture. And while the event marked the end of a week in which fashion was front and centre, it's also a new beginning for First Nations fashion. For Sydneysiders, Election Day this Saturday, May 21, will also mark the off...

LOWER MERION – “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” Coco Chanel‘s sentiments are still à propos, despite the passing of decades since she revolutionized fashion. One way to understand “what is happening” is to Skechers Outlets create experiences for student artists and designers to showcase their fashion ideas. Since 2007, just such an opportunity has steadily developed in the form of the annual Teen Learning Community Student Fashion & Design Show. The upcoming Sunday, May 22 Fashion & Design Show will be held at The Bryn Mawr Gazebo and Green adjacent to Ludington Library. The F & D Show originated in May of 2007 at the Bryn Mawr Gazebo and S...

In a night of celebration and camaraderie, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Department of Fashion Design + Merchandising last week held its first in-person fashion event since 2019. The fashion show, #PROCESS2022, showcased the hard work, talent and creativity of the department’s students. This year’s event was held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on May 11. #PROCESS2022 featured a runway show, reception and fashion exposition, as well as a meet-and-greet with senior designers. “Our goal was to pull back the curtain on fashion and Skechers Shoes Outlets demonstrate the process of design and merchandising and how they work together to create ‘fashion,’” said Deidra Arrington, chair of the Department of Fashion Design + Merchandising. VCUarts alumnus Michael-B...

Former South Carolina Gamecock football players made moves around the NFL this weekend. Wide receiver Bryan Edwards was picked up by the Atlanta Falcons in a trade with the Las Vegas Raiders on Friday. The Raiders traded Edwards and a conditional Boston Red Sox Jersey  seventh-round selection in the 2023 NFL Draft to Atlanta for the Falcons’ fifth-round pick next year. Edwards appeared in 29 games across two seasons in Las Vegas after he was drafted by the Raiders in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Last season, he was the third-most productive pass catcher in Las Vegas, bringing in 34 receptions for 571 yards and three touchdowns. He played at South Carolina from 2016-19 after graduating from Conway High School. Three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Melvin Ingram signed with the Miam...

In the modern-day NFL, it's often in Year 2 when an eventual star quarterback comes into his own, finds his groove, and parlays previous flashes into consistent albeit not flawless high-level play. There was Carson Wentz in 2017, Patrick Mahomes in 2018, and Lamar Jackson in 2019. Josh Allen took a mammoth third-year leap, although in his second season the rookie-year mishaps melted away into signs of the imminent MVP-vote-getting season ahead. And of course last year, Joe Burrow built on a strong rookie season cut short due to injury, and led the NFL in completion percentage and yards-per-attempt average en route to leading the Cincinnati Bengals to the AFC title. Of course, past results from other quarterbacks don't guarantee the New York Giants Jersey second (or third) year eru...