There are two lounges, blowout stations and six vanity mirrors, each lined with nail polish bottles across the bottom. You might be guessing the new tenant at Tivoli Village is a salon. Right and wrong.
Fashion
Before you head to the department stores to check off the items on your shopping list, consider these sources for your fashion and beauty gifts.
So many gifts to buy, so few gift ideas. It’s an annual dilemma, sometimes even a monthly one.
Black Friday versus Cyber Monday really comes down to a sleeping bag in front of Target or sneaking clicks on company time. If it concerns an unheard of deal, shoppers will find a way to justify either. Sometimes both.
For anyone who ever uttered the words, “They’re just clothes,” a class at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has built a fine rebuttal. It has scoured famous closets, private collections and casino archives to find garments that hold within their threads the fabric of Las Vegas.
Kimberly Cardoza, 47, loves when strangers confuse her and her daughter for sisters. Or when her son is mistaken for her boyfriend. What she doesn’t love are needles or the thought of injecting toxins into her face.
The walls of the new Amari fashion boutique in Henderson boast quotes from fashion heavy-hitters such as Yves Saint Laurent and Coco Chanel.
Here’s what you need to know about fall fashion ’12: It’s less about trends, more about texture. Leathers, suedes, furs, metallics, brocades and velvets comprise the all-star, all-luxe ensemble that will undoubtedly make a few cameos in your closet this season.
The Fiesta Square shopping center on Charleston Boulevard and Antelope Way doesn’t exactly scream fashion. An old bar, Boodles Tavern, anchors it, and there’s no one waiting in a uniform to park your car.
The brown-and-white-striped shopping bag has arrived in Las Vegas. Fashion mavens have come to recognize the branding just as well as they do the little blue box. It means Henri Bendel is finally here.
Make no mistake, 2nd Act Las Vegas is one class act. Owner/operator Pamela Alksne accepts only dry-cleaned, higher-end fashions for the consignment store on the edge of Sun City Summerlin.
Buyers for the spring/summer 2013 season at MAGIC, the fashion trade convention that visits Las Vegas biannually, hope they have their fingers on the fashion pulse of their customers. But that’s never determined until the actual shopping begins.
Seven-year-old Kayana Benson can go on and on about her friend Avery’s cool purple top that makes the shape of a butterfly. She got it at Target. It’s “really cute.” And, did she mention it looks like a butterfly?