Art and Fashion
Luxe Leather Look
Traditionally the role of leather in fashion has always resided in the fall and winter seasons, but in the year 2013 new trends have arrived. In the spring and summer 2013 fashion lines leather is forging a new fresh place …
UA Art Graduate Uses Art to Communicate Emotions of the Past
Sometimes, we cannot say what we want out loud and need a different outlet, and artists are way ahead of us. “For me, I’m not much for talking. I use art to communicate,” graduate art major Samantha Dixon said. Dixon’s …
Quirky Gift Shop Opens On Archibald Yell
As Fayetteville has grown, the city has tried to cultivate a local-business friendly culture. At the farmer’s market, you’ll see a myriad of “Keep Fayetteville Funky, support local businesses” t-shirts and bumper stickers. The newest business to carry on this …
A ‘Shed’ Provides Opportunity for UA
Have you ever heard of a shed that people actually wanted to go to during the weekend? Well, now Fayetteville has one, and no it’s not full of old tools or beaten up tennis rackets. This Shed is actually lined …
Head to Toe Fashion Statements
The concept of finding balance within an outfit is all about making a statement. Whenever getting dressed for an event it, is so important to feel like when you walk in the room you will steal the show. The best …
Arkansas Student Creates Fashion For Good
A UA senior has big plans beyond the five outfits she sent down the Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week runway a couple weeks ago. Her passion for “fashion for good” has taken her to Africa twice and to New York Fashion …
Refresh Your Closet for the Spring Season
With winter days and warm sunny days in our future, spring has finally sprung and it is time to do some much needed spring cleaning. Spring cleaning is all about making those hard decisions everybody already knows the answers to, …
ProjectLife Gives Srapbooking a New Look
College is full of memories captured in hundreds of Instagrams, but cataloging all of those memories to mimic your mother’s coffee-table scrapbooks can take more time than you have. Though Instagram does provide options for printing out photos, it’s just …
Rock That Rainy Runway
Everyone’s heard the phrase “April showers bring may flowers,” and with our current weather situation, a sturdy raincoat is definitely a must-have this season. Although rain is never fun, nor the ideal time to wear your best attire, but my …
Hard and Soft is the New Black
Soft, demure and petite are all terms that can be used to describe the feminine side of fashion. Rugged, edgy and hard are the contrasting terms used when referring to the more masculine clothing pieces. Finding ways to exude these …
NWA Fashion Week
A whole week devoted to fashion isn’t just for New York. A group of local designers and boutiques are gathering for the second annual Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week March 11-16 at the Chancellor Hotel in downtown Fayetteville. Though the glitz …
Local Charity Fashion Show Begins Thursday
As major cities around the world wrap up their spring fashion weeks, northwest Arkansas begins preparations for its own. NWA Fashion Week, with the motto “Fashion for Philanthropy,” is an annual fashion show put on by local designers and boutiques …
Students Design Clothing for NWA Fashion Week
This week, as fashionistas from all over northwest Arkansas gather to see new trends on the runway, UA student designers are watching models take the form of what they have envisioned, sketched and sewed together for the past few months. …
A Timely Trend
The cellphone generation is abandoning reliance on cellphones when it comes to telling time. More than just a trendy addition to daily attire for men and women, watches are a practical, more efficient alternative to cellphones. Nearly a third of …
How to: Refurbish a Chair
Refurbishing furniture is an incredibly resourceful skill: it’s a relatively cheap, temporary facelift for any living space, and it requires staple guns. The best projects require power tools and staple guns. You will need a screwdriver, staple gun (or Gorilla …
