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Wearable Art Miami | Vividly Co.

Holiday Gift Guide 2013 | Wearable Art Miami | Vividly Co.

 Do you have a friend  that always wants to be at the cutting edge of fashion or a relative that appreciates meaning behind a garment? I can think of several relatives and friends that fall into these categories that I will be getting a something from Vividly Co. this Christmas. I recently went to the Vividly Launch Party in Miami discovering their awesome concept! Ever piece of clothing in the Vividly store incorporates artwork by an emerging artist, textile designer, or art lover.

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5 Fall Fashion Staple Wardrobe Items

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5 Fall Fashion Staple Wardrobe Items to Get You Through Holiday Shopping

Holiday shopping is the start of the holiday season for most people and it can be a little stressful. Take the stress out of holiday shopping by arming yourself with these 5 staple wardrobe items. They will make shopping more fun and take the stress out of dressing for your big holiday shopping trips. You can get the look from Sears. With the Shop Your Way program, I saved a ton of money and had a blast picking out things for myself. It is important to take care of yourself first so that you can effectively shop and give to others.

5 Stable Wardrobe Items to Get You Through Holiday Shopping #ThisisStyle #cbias #Shop

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Arm Party with Shine Elegant Tracker from Best Buy

Shine Elegant Tracker from Best Buy

The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. 

I recently had a long conversation with Adam Glassman, creative director of O Magazine. We talked about accessories for over 20 minutes! At the time, my accessories were limited to a J.Crew necklace and The Shine. Normally, I pile on the accessories, but lately, during the day, I only wear the Shine. It is no fuss and I don’t have to worry about the new baby breaking it or worse yet injuring the baby with a sharp edge. At night time, I have an arm party and every metal is invited.

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Vividly Co. Miami Launch Party

Vividly Co. Miami Launch Party

A few weeks ago, I attended the Vividly Co. Miami Launch Party at Blo Brickell. The designer of the garments Sabrina was there along with some of the local artists that place their work on the garments. Vividly recently released new piece that work as a garment canvas for the artist. The new pieces include a bomber jacket made of silk and a versatile dress that can go from day to night with just a change in jewelry. Vividly Co. is such a cool concept! Every item in the Vividly store incorporates artwork by an emerging artist, textile designer, or art lover. A Vividly piece is a unique chance to own and wear art.

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Macy’s Culinary Council Event with Chef Todd English

Macy’s Culinary Council Event with Chef Todd English

I am a member of the Everywhere Society and the Everywhere Society provided me with compensation about the Macy’s Culinary Council. However, as always, all opinions expressed herein are my own. If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to message me using the contact me page above. 

This weekend I had the pleasure of attending another Macy’s Culinary Council Event with Chef Todd English . These events are awesome! You get to watch the Chef cook, eat all the goodies the Chef makes, and get recipes to take home. If you love the food, you can buy the book and have it signed while you meet the Chef. I went to another one a few months ago with Michelle Bernstein. I would highly recommend attending and arriving early so you can get a great seat.

Chef Todd English and Fashion Blogger April Golightly

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Fashion for a Cause Runway

Fashion for a Cause Runway

A few weeks ago, I walked the runway at Bloomingdale’s for Fashion for a Cause. Can you believe it? Barely out the hospital from giving birth to my little Cami and right after, I am hitting the runway with real models and awesome fellow Miami Fashion Bloggers!  It was so much fun walking the runway, but I think the most fun part of the event is getting to hang out with the bloggers. I love meeting friendly bloggers. I’ve already gotten to hang with the bloggers several times after the event! How lucky am I? Stay tuned for more photos!

Fashion for a Cause Runway

Photo by: Alexander Tamargo / @ALTAimages

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ModCloth Private Label Debut

ModCloth Private Label Debut

Did you know that there are now new ModCloth Private Label brands? It’s true! Check out their two very first private label brands: Bea & Dot and Myrtlewood. Featuring an array of playful prints, feminine silhouettes, and classic cuts, their private label brands were conceived with the best of vintage in mind. What’s even more exciting is most of their private label items come in a full ranges of sizes, from XS to 4X, a fit for almost everyone! Check out my 5 favorites from the debut collections!

Panel of Poets Skirt

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Darling in Diamonds Dress

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Uncomplicate with Pure Jill #JJillInspiredStyle

Uncomplicate with Pure Jill #JJillInspiredStyle

Thank you to J.Jill and The Motherhood for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.

It is time to uncomplicate your life and spend time on what is really important like your friends and family. Who wants to spend hours planning what you are going to wear everyday? As a new mom, I barely have time to take a shower let alone spend hours in my closet trying to put something fashionable together. J.Jill’s new philosophy is to uncomplicate. Trust J.Jill to take care of what you wear so you can focus on the things in life that are most important to you. You can see this principle guiding the clothes, website, and the stores.

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Street Style: Tour de Fashion Sawgrass Mills

Street Style: Tour de Fashion Sawgrass Mills

Last week, there was an awesome fashion event at The Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass Mills called “Tour de Fashion” with George Kotsiopoulos, celebrity stylist and co-host of Fashion Police for E! Entertainment. It was a perfectly temperate day with great food, fabulous styling, fashion shows, and shopping. Check out more details about the event in the article I wrote for Examiner.com. Of course, the Street Style of Tour de Fashion at Sawgrass Mill was my favorite part of the event. tour de fashion sawgrass mills street style

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Top Shop Loves Miami

I remember going to my first Top Shop in London on a trip abroad during college! I was super excited to be discovering some no one in ‘The States’ had ever seen! Now, other people have figured out the awesomeness that is Top Shop! Nordstrom just opened a local Top Shop inside its Aventura store.

Top Shop Miami

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Glam-A-THON Lipstick Lounge

Glam-A-THON Lipstick Lounge

The tickets to this event were complementary. All opinions are 100% my own.

This year I attended the 7th annual Glam-A-THON™ Lipstick Lounge. It was an amazing party for an great cause, fighting breast cancer! Glam-A-THON™ proved to me that without a doubt, you can do good things and have a blast doing them. I ate an crazy amount of sweets, got my makeup done, and added an awesome pink streak to my hair. There is no way that I am missing this event next year! I took some pics of the awesome attendees that just were oozing fabulousness!

Glam-A-THON™ Lipstick Lounge

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5 Tips for Wearing 1990s Inspired Grunge Today

5 tips for wearing 1990s inspired grunge today

The 1990s grunge trend is back in a huge way for fall this year. Of  course, most women cannot wear flannel and ripped jeans in their daily life. In order to embrace the 90s look without cutting holes in your jeans, try wearing flannel plaid print in a more delicate fabric like silk. The plaid top can be incorporated into with your current wardrobe by pairing it with a simple black pencil skirt. If you are dying to wear flannel and that worn out Nirvana t-shirt that you’ve held on to all these years, wear them on the weekend with skinny jeans and black lace up boots or a light wash denim skirt.

5 tips for wearing 1990s inspired grunge today

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Leopard Faux Wrap Dress

A few weeks ago, I was getting very frustrated with my closet as there was really nothing in there that fit me. There were a few things, but most of the items were not breast feeding friendly. I felt hopeless and very frustrated. As a new mom, I don’t want to spend a ton of money on clothing that I am going to be wearing for such a short time. I definitely plan to be back in my old clothes very soon. How I miss wearing the clothes in my closet! Instead of crying about my body, which I was nearly doing, I decided to add an extra $100 to my clothing budget and try to get as many breast feeding friendly items for that amount as I could find. I started at Sears and found everything that I needed! It was really awesome! This leopard dress is one of the items that I found.

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Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci was born in 1914 into one of Florence’s oldest noble families. How cool is it that he went from being noble to inventing these awesome prints? The first clothes Pucci designed were for the Reed College skiing team.[3] But his designs came to wider attention in 1947, when he designed ski-wear for a female friend was photographed by Toni Frissell, a photographer working for Harper’s Bazaar. Before the war, Pucci’s sleek designs caused a sensation, and he received several offers from American manufacturers to produce them.[1]

Mizner Park Date Night Outfit

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Fashion for a Cause Outfit

I am super excited to be involved with Fashion for a Cause. After coming home from the campaign photo shoot, I styled a second outfit with the Peace Love World Breast Cancer Top and Bracelet. I will be wearing it again this Thursday as I walk the runway at Bloomingdales in Aventura, Florida. Please join me and other local fashion and beauty bloggers for a special fashion show at Bloomingdale’s Aventura this Thursday, October 17 from 6 to 9PM. The show will feature runway models & fashion and beauty bloggers rocking the latest Fall trends with the Peace Love World Breast Cancer Awareness Collection which you can shop that evening . Plus, enjoy complimentary hair styling by SoBlo and a makeup bar by Bloomingdale’s. As well as pink cupcakes by Bunnie Cakes, for you from Pinkberry, and drinks from Société Perrier!  There will be guest appearances by famed illustrator: The Cancer Vixen & Bob Carey of the Tutu Project. RSVP TODAY!

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Funkshion Fashion Show

It is time for the Funkshion Fashion show again. I went to one of their shows earlier this year and had a blast! The fashion shows start on October 16 and ends on October 19. I will be attending the shows on Friday and Saturday night! I hope to see you there!

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Spring/Summer 2014 Collections Runway Show Schedule

21ST and Collins Ave in Miami Beach at Collins Park

The FUNKSHION Fashion Tents

(between the W and the Setai Hotels)

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Lord and Taylor VIP Opening Party

Lord and Taylor VIP Opening Party

Lord & Taylor opened this week with a Lord & Taylor VIP opening party to benefit the Junior League of Boca Raton and the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and a morning ribbon cutting ceremony in Mizner Park. Both events were amazing, and the attendees were dressed to impress. There were several celebrity guests including Nina Garcia, Creative Director of Marie Claire and Project Runway judge, Mark Badgley and James Mischka of Badgley Mischka, designer Joseph Abboud, Richard Baker, CEO of Hudson’s Bay Company, Bonnie Brooks, President of Hudson’s Bay Company, Liz Rodbell, Incoming President of Hudson’s Bay Company, as well as leaders from the Boca Raton community.

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Lord and Taylor Opens in Boca Raton Florida

Lord and Taylor Opens in Boca Raton

As a self proclaimed South Florida fashionista and foodie, Mizner Park is one of my favorite destinations. My husband and I have a weekly date night and Mizner is the first place that comes to mind when we start debating where to go. I love it because we can eat dinner and then stroll through the store to get some more alone time together without the baby crying in the background. It is fun to go in all the little boutiques and trying on all kinds of clothing and accessories. I love getting my husband’s opinion on my choices even if I know what he likes already. Sometime he surprises me!  The new Lord & Taylor has provided a new shopping experience that allows you to boutique shop in one store.

Lord and Taylor opens in Boca

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QC Style Academy: Personal Styling School

QC Style Academy: Personal Styling School

Classes provided by QC Style Academy for review purposes only. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.

QC Style Academy is an international online fashion styling school that recently launched a personal styling course. Are you an aspiring fashion stylists or just want to hone your styling skills? I recently started taking the fashion styling class with QC Style Academy. It is perfect because I am able to do it at my own pace. With the new baby, I barely have time to go to see my friends. When I have time, I take the online QC Academy Styling Classes.

QC Style Academy

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Noelle Swimwear

Welcome to the Noelle Swimwear Giveaway Hosted by : April Golightly  Where are you going to wear the Noelle One Piece Swimsuit?  Check out April Golightly‘s Review of Noelle’s Bathing Suits BUY IT: You can purchase the Casey One Piece Swimsuit at  http://www.shop-noelle.com/online-marketing/what-s-new/caley2013-09-16-22-33-49-detail Retail Value $148 WIN IT: ONE April Golightly reader is going to win a … Read more