Browsing: Fashion

Ryan and Nadira Hurley, founders of the Vert & Vogue boutique, take a serious approach to style. Nadira’s background in fashion and Ryan’s longtime advocacy for the environment led them to open their clothing store in Durham in 2008 with a commitment to running it as a green business.

The world’s travelling circus of fashion editors, buyers and celebrities waved goodbye to the cobbled streets of Milan and cried “Bonjour Paris” on Tuesday, bracing itself for the last, most colorful furlong of spring-summer 2015 ready-to-wear shows.

Two years ago, a high school student started a Vine account because a fashion blogger she liked tweeted about it. Now, Austin freshman Cathlyn Jones has more than 242,000 followers on her Vine account.

Baylor students left behind the classroom and explored the European fashion circuit on a study abroad trip this June. Plaids, outrageous colors, unusual haircuts and ever-changing trends spattered the streets of Europe as students traveled through London, Edinburg and Paris, exploring the world of modern trends and the latest additions to couture design.

Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.

Three students in the Accelerated Ventures Program at Baylor started a business centered on the Baylor plaid: Dapper Bear Clothiers.
The Accelerated Ventures Program is a two-semester course in which students are given $5,000 to start their own business.