Wichitans shine in spotlight, on runway
After covering fashion for three decades, I still enjoy learning about people from our fair city who have had extraordinary experiences in the fashion business.
After covering fashion for three decades, I still enjoy learning about people from our fair city who have had extraordinary experiences in the fashion business.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Well, except when it comes to the subject of Wichita. Then, if you're opinion is disparaging, keep it to yourself.
The Target company should name its little mascot dog Missoni. But Tuesday when the Missoni collections went on sale, there were lines outside the door and a shopping frenzy that pretty much cleaned out the merchandise in record-breaking time.
Isn't it great when something you've always wanted to do turns out to be more fun and memorable than you thought it would be?
After a month of vacation, re-entry into the real world is tough. Digging through a tall stack of mail, sorting through e-mails and jotting down voice mails — a person just has to keep thinking about the great memories made during the time off. And the things you learned or remember from your last trip.
I look forward to going to Fashion Week every year, not just for the shows, but also to see the people I've gotten to know during the past three decades.
Ask hair stylist Patrick Lomantini what his lucky number is these days, and he'll probably say "50." He is about to embark on a record-setting, hair-cutting, money-raising adventure that will cover 50 states and include going to 50 salons, doing 50 haircuts at each salon and benefiting 50 humane societies by asking for donations for each cut.
Everybody needs a challenge once in a while, especially teens between the ages of 13 and 17 who are getting a little bored with summer.
Playing a small part as Hedda Hopper in Music Theatre of Wichita's "Sunset Boulevard" was fun, a bit nerve-racking and very educational.
Lindsay Winn, 32, was looking forward to having lunch with her mom, Lynda Manning, at the Seventh Annual Sisterhood of the Divine Makeover Luncheon on June 25.
Carissa Kelley, 24, took a last-chance opportunity and ended up Miss Kansas 2011. "This was my one and only shot and I'm glad I took it," she said. This was her last year before aging out of the Miss Kansas pageant age eligibility. Her title of Miss Wooded Hills took her to the Miss Kansas Pageant in Pratt.
Count me in among the millions who always have had a fascination with the late Princess Diana.
When you've told fourth-grade girls for a whole school year that you will, for sure, take them to the zoo when school is out, you'd better believe that they don't forget a promise.
It's here. The season when you get into your car and while it's 90 degrees outside, it's 119 behind the wheel. You mutter, unless children are present, "It is hotter than heck."
Sometimes you have experiences you know you'll never forget. And happily, sometimes they're good memories of a fun time. I doubt I'll ever forget meeting Martin Short and being interviewed by his character Jiminy Glick.
No doubt about it, I deserve a big fat "F" when it comes to being a good Facebooker. My co-worker Denise Neil, who understands the allure of Facebook, Twitter and everything Internet, says I am the worst person she knows when it comes to social media networking. And when I explain loudly that I don't care what so and so had for lunch or what they've been doing on a rainy Sunday, she says that lame excuse is no longer valid.
My face was already scrunched up because it was so hot and I don't like hot weather. At all. Last Monday the temperature hit 100 degrees. The only person I knew who liked this was business writer Bill Wilson, who kept proclaiming his love of hot weather.
The carriages, the horses, the dignitaries, the limos, the hats, the morning coats. It was all great, but it was the dress we wanted to see.
Have you ever looked at the outdated styles some people insist on wearing year after year after year, and wished you could magically give them a makeover?
Even before I saw her photo, I knew she'd be beautiful. When your parents are Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's a pretty safe bet.