Houston Fashion News

Catch up on your Houston fashion and shopping news!

• PRADA comes to Houston - Culturemap is reporting that Miuccia is coming to the Houston Galleria this fall; October or November!

• Free People opening in City Centre - Forbes wasn't kidding around when they named Houston the #1 city to shop and the evidence is here. Free People, famous for their catalog is opening a store in CityCentre!

• Party moved to Saturday - Chloe Dao's Emerging Designers party has been moved to SATURDAY, FEB.5 due to inclimate weather (snow flurries in Houston makes everyone go crazy)

• H&M E-Commerce - We've reported that H&M is opening its first store in Texas in Dallas but H&M is opening their e-commerce site to the US by the end of this year! Thank the Lord!

Bun B x Premium Goods x Stackwell

Come out this Sunday (tomorrow) and grab this limited edition tee and crewneck collaboration between Stackwell, Premium Goods and BUN B!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Premium Goods

2416 Times Blvd

2-5pm

Buy STACKWELL

EMERGING DESIGNERS PARTY AT LOT8

At the beginning of January, Chloe Dao and her team at Lot 8 hosted an open call for emerging talent at their boutique. Now, Chloe and her merchandising team have made their selections and are hosting a party to debut the emerging talent that has been chosen to sell their pieces at the Lot 8 Rice Village boutique.

Chloe Dao has been an important part of Houston's fashion scene and continues to support homegrown local talent and this event should be no different! Come out and support Houston's fashion scene and Houston's fashion designers! Also, this is the only place you can shop for Chloe Dao's fabulous spring collection!

Lot 8 Emerging Designers Party

Friday, February 4

7-9pm

Lot 8

6127 Kirby

Houston, Texas

Casa de Novia Sample Sale!

Casa de Novia, Houston's fashion forward bridal boutique is hosting their annual sample sale today at their boutique in the Heights. Get gorgeous designer gowns from Monique Lhuillier, Elizabeth Filmore and more up to 75% off!

Casa de Novia Bridal Couture

3331 D’Amico

Houston, TX 77019

713.523.9090

OPI Texas Collection

It appears that I am a little late for the OPI Texas Collection craze, but as the collection debuts February 2, 2011 - we've still got a tiny bit of a head start.

As usual, OPI gave their Texas collection a bunch of pun-y names that I am kind of obsessed with.

Austin-tatious Turquoise

Don't Mess With OPI

It's Totally Fort Worth It,

I Vant To Be A Lone Star

Suzi Loves Cowboys

San Tan-tonio (personal fave!)

Houston, We Have a Purple (REPRESENT!)

Do You Think I'm Tex-y?

Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em (eh)

Guy Meets Gal-veston

Big Hair...Big Nails

Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?

Urbane Times Holiday Picks at Lot 8

One of our favorite boutiques to visit is Chloe Dao's Lot 8 Boutique in Rice Village. Chloe Dao has consistently put out great cocktail dresses and separates and is one of the premier boutiques in Houston, and we love her!

Here are some of our picks from Lot 8. Be sure to stop in and take 40% off all sale items, outerwear and accessories and make sure you tell them Urbane Times sent you!

Dao Chloe Dao Holiday 'Carrie' Metallic Dress $388.00 *One of Lot 8's bestsellers*

Dao Chloe Dao Black Fall Heidi Dress $279.99 (on sale!)

Dao Chloe Dao Printed halter dress $299.99

Dao Chloe Dao Royal blue dress $398.00 (from Dao Chloe Dao's spring collection)

Dao Chloe Dao "Kathy" $198.00

Dao Chloe Dao "Dominique" $328.00

All these Nuo flip totes, netbook envelopes and mini backpacks range from $19-44.99 and make great gifts!

All accessories are on sale!

Also, check out Chloe Dao's blog where she shares her inspiration and thoughts about being a designer! She is also hosting a casting call for designers to come and sell their wares!

Check out this Facebook invite for more information!

All photos by Deanna Mendoza.

Urbane Times Holiday Picks at Serendipity3

Houston has just been named the best city for shopping by Forbes magazine (a fact that I think we already knew!) and that is very fitting for our spotlight on boutiques for the first Urbane Times Holiday Picks!

We're spotlighting a couple of boutiques that we love and picking clothing and accessories we think you should know about!

Serendipity3 is a boutique we've featured before and what better place to start with our Urbane Times picks! The boutique is a great place to shop.

We picked four outfits and styled them for several different occasions, so enjoy!

1. Holiday Party - a colorful way to bring cheer to your holiday season, without looking like a Christmas card in green and red.

- Blue dress - Serendipity3 $62

- Mustard skirt - $60

- Gold coin necklace - $34

- Gold bangle - $24

2. Office Party

- Cream ruffled top - Fifth Culture - $48

- Black cuffed pants - BB Dakota - $72

- Gold chain - $24

3. Holiday Dinner

- Printed top - Gestuz - $57

- Black skirt - Gestuz - $152

- Gold chain link necklace - $38

- Gold pyramid bangle - $14

4. Night Out!

- Leopard sequin jacket - See You Monday - $58

- Gray tank - RD Style - $22

- Gray shorts - Gracia Fashion - $88

Serendipity3 offers great, affordable fashion that will help you dress for any occasion, and just in case you haven't done/finished your holiday shopping, Serendipity3 is giving Urbane Times readers 20% off all Urbane Times picks, excluding jewelry! Just mention Urbane Times at the register to receive your discount!

Don't forget to join us on Monday, December 20 from 6:30-8:30pm at Serendipity3 as we debut our holiday picks in store and celebrate the holiday season with drinks, nibbles and more!

Special thanks to Deanna Mendoza for the photos, and Ruby Haro of Serendipity3!

Stackwell, my friends!

At Urbane Times, we are all about supporting homegrown talent, and clothing line Stackwell is no different. They recently celebrated their 1st anniversary with a party at Union Bar and we were on hand to help them celebrate. (and get a free shirt too!)

Check out my cameo at 0:18 (when I get the free shirt) and 0:43 when I'm representing Stackwell!

STACKWELL 1yr Anniversary from STACKWELL SOCIETY on Vimeo.

Check out some images from their lookbook.

To get your Stackwell on, go to Stackwell.bigcartel.com