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Fall Blaze

by Liana Peterson | November 02, 2009

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A fresher, more accessible take on the gladiator style that’s been trotting around the past few seasons, the caged shoe has far more sex appeal than its buckled-up predecessor. The caged shoe can create a tougher image than the traditional springtime strappy shoe, and yet still remain feminine. Taking cues from YSL — who showed the mother of all caged shoes, featuring a caged heel (already knocked off by BeBe) — and Stella McCartney, caged shoes run the spectrum from bondage chic to skeletal versions of your favorite pair of peep toes.

Top: Loeffler Randall “Neve,” $595 at Moxie (51 Charles Street, Boston, 617.557.9991)
Inside left: Kors by Michael Kors “Pareh,” $240 at Saks Fifth Avenue (786 Boylston Street, Boston, 617.262.8500);
Inside right: Faryl Robin, $269 at Stil (800 Boylston Street, Suite 111, Boston, 617.859.7845)
Outside: Abaete for Payless, $38 at Payless Shoe Source (367 Washington Street, Boston, 617.451.1871)

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Local Flair

by Stuff Boston | January 23, 2009

We’re daydreaming about warmer days when bare legs aren’t tantamount to frostbite and our wardrobe can upgrade from longsleeved layers and chunky knits to mini dresses and pencil skirts, sans tights. The objects of our desire? Doucette Duvall’s spring collection. Stephanie Doucette, the line’s coowner, is a UMass Boston grad and former Paradise bartender who founded the line of dresses and jackets on a wintry NYC Valentine’s Day four years ago with then-neighbor Annabet Duvall. The duo’s labor of love has made its way to Boston via Betty Riaz, style setter and owner of Stil Distinctive Clothing (Prudential Center, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, 617.859.7845), just in time for pre-spring shopping. Doucette Duvall’s latest collection runs the girly gamut from flirty to downright fierce — think spaghetti-strapped sundresses with removable contrasting plaid sashes to simple ’80s-inspired sheaths. Stil stocks two pieces from the sexier end of the spectrum: the Wrigley dress — a sleeveless, scoopneck, vibrant yellow body-conscious number — and the calf-length, hot pink Lauren tube dress with slight ruching at the sweetheart neckline. These dresses are casual enough for day, but rocked with pumps and a sleek clutch, they could easily work the nightlife circuit. You can respect your mother Earth while surrendering to your fashion fetish, too, because Doucette Duvall is devoted to being
green, with clothes made stateside of mostly “rescued” materials and always shipped in recycled boxes. To Doucette, the excitement of fashion design lies not in massproducing tons of look-a-like dresses, but creating wearable works of art. “If [Annabet and I] freak out about a fabric and there’s only 40 yards of it, we don’t care,” she says. “The 10 girls who get that dress are psyched.”

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Heavy Metal

by Stuff Boston | October 06, 2008

Erickson Beamon’s Must-have Neck Candy

Erick son Beamon, possibly the chicest thing ever to come out of Detroit, has been a fashionista favorite for more than 25 years. Starry-eyed buddies Vicki Beamon and Karen Erickson first hit the NY C social scene in the early ’80s, becoming resident fixtures of the Studio 54 jet-set crowd. Shortly after, they fell into jewelry design when they strung beads together for a friend’s runway show. ...

Keeping an eye on: Gina Rae DeWolfe

by Stuff Boston | September 08, 2008

Gina Rae Dewolfe’s world revolves around fashion. At 16, experimenting with her dad’s sewing machine, she created a small handbag line that was later sold at hipster boutique Bodega and Newbury Street skate shop Technical, where she now works. She even designed her own dress for her senior prom. Even so, I wouldn’t dare call her a fashionista. The non-blogging (she prefers a scrapbook journal) fashion design student is low-tech, low-maintenance, and detests labels. So what could DeWolfe possibly want with a career in fashion? She says she’s just a real person expressing herself and doing what she loves, and claims that there’s a whole side of the fashion industry that supports people like her. At 19, she’s wellspoken, clearheaded, and extremely hopeful about her future in fashion.

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Style spy

by Erica Corsano | June 12, 2008
Keeping an eye on: Kathleen Breen Combes Kathleen Combes is the living, breathing embodiment of every young girl’s fairy-tale fantasy. She’s beautiful, kind, and gracious, has killer style, and happens to be a ballerina with a hunky, fellow-dancer boyfriend...

Open season

by Erica Corsano | May 29, 2008
At long last, it’s finally show-off-your-toes season in Boston. But despite all the waiting for it, if you’re anything like me, you’re still not prepared: every year, the warm weather creeps up on me like a villain in a bad horror flick. This year, determined...