Dear DISfunkshion,
I feel that it’s important to play and have fun with fashion. I love helping people mix every day basics with the most stylish seasonal selections to help bring out their inner fashion goddess. After a near decade of experience in wardrobe styling and personal shopping, I was thrilled when I had the opportunity to provide an even larger platform for fashion followers.
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No matter where you go everyone is talking about the benefits of going green by recycling. Everything from food, fabric, beauty products and jewelry are all reaping the rewards of the recycle revolution. Recycling “is the reprocessing of old materials into new products, with the aims of preventing the waste of potentially useful materials.” (Wikipedia) For Sarah Herrington, of Oahu’s North Shore, those useful materials would be bottle-caps. Walking into her cozy beachside home was like stepping into Mark’s Garage on a First Friday.
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Retrofitting the Cabaret Art Form for the Modern Age…
“Every time I go on stage, I worry about my costume falling off,” Meghan Mayhem says in the upstairs room of the Next Door nightclub, which has been transformed into a makeshift dressing room this Friday night. She is doing last-minute touchups to her costume, sewing fishing line into the bust of her dress. “One girl lost part of her outfit on stage once, but I haven’t. I have tripped, though.”
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The road through Kailua is long and winding. I pass Kalaheo High School, an algae river, and numerous chickens before finally turning into the driveway of a breezy, tree lined house. Jenefer Miles’ home is large, and accommodates an old table and bench set in the front yard. Various styles of boards litter the sideways next to miniature palms–some red, some yellow, some multicolored, some single finned, all with “liquid soul surfer” written on top.
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Cassandra Rull’s love for surfing and active lifestyle transpires through her easy-to-wear, girly-yet-functional clothes. “I’m a girl on-the-go and make clothes [that fit] my lifestyle,” said Rull. “Everything I make you can just throw on.” Bright floral patterned bubble dresses, tie-dye off the shoulder tops, and versatile high-waist spandex skirts are just a few of Cassandra’s signature designs.
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The first time I met Noelani Love was in a nightclub. She wrote her number on my arm and told me to call her the next day. She had noticed I didn’t wear any jewelry and wanted to fix that, because according to Noe, women don’t want accessories, they need them. I quickly fell in love with Noe’s style, as a jewelry designer and as a beautiful person, a Spanish-speaking southern belle who sparkles everywhere she goes with her warmth and genuine smile.
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