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StyleMakers

Jessica Rust of Jessica Rust Designs

Jessica Rust personalizes her collections with hand-drawn, contemporary designs that cross urban with nature.

July 2008

by Abby Van Ness

Meet Michael Druskin

Meet Michael Druskin

Len Druskin changed its buying direction, appealing to a younger segment than was the norm at tony Galleria.

September 2006

People Who Do Cool Things

Meet the Twin Cities' People Who Do Cool Things that are stepping out in the fashion world.        

Kristin Miller

Kristin Miller

St. Paulite Kristin Miller, owner of Zack & Zoe Bath, a vegan line of body washes, hand and body creams, and sugar scrubs, which were just picked up by national retailer Anthropologie.

August 2006

Maia Haag

Maia Haag

Maia Haag has sold some of her personalized children's books to some very A-list celebs.

July 2006

Dave Spencer

Dave Spencer

Dave Spencer's Ogi Frames focus on hip, stylish, affordable eyeglass frames.

June 2006

Mia Gray King and Robin Gretchen Scott

Mia Gray King and Robin Gretchen Scott

Twin Cities jewelry designers Mia Gray King and Robin Gretchen Scott want women to feel special when they wear gretchen gray.

May 2006

Sophie Alfano and Raina Belleau

Sophie Alfano and Raina Belleau

Teenagers Sophie Alfano and Raina Belleau co-owners BiblioBags, make purses out of old books.

April 2006

Stow Away

Stow Away

Stow is a media cabinet designed by Minnesota College of Art and Design student Maxwell Kelsey for a contest cosponsored by Room and Board.

April 2006

Cy Winship

Cy Winship

Cy Winship is a furniture upholsterer, interior designer, and regular contributor to HGTV's Decorating Cents with Joan Steffend.

March 2006

Diva Minnesota

Local Fashion Hits the Stage

The founders of what is now Diva Minnesota started making waves fourteen years ago as urban pioneers, pulling in Twin Cities' creatives from graphic design, fashion design, and interior design, as well as artists, dancers, and idea makers to create talk-of-the town (and nation) events to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS.

March 2006

Deb Wright

Deb Wright

With the twist of the wrist, Deb Wright's chic fashion gizmo, called a Lizette, transforms a basic sandal, pump, or boot into an evening shoe.

February 2006

Lewis Remele

Designer Lewis Remele makes the move from Kenwood Parkway to New York runway.

The latest “it” designer on the East Coast, Lewis Remele, hails from Minneapolis' Kenwood.

February 2006

Taissa Lada

Taissa Lada

Taissa Lada creates glamorous, whimsical, feathered hair clips and headband, not to mention intricate gowns, bustiers, and handbags.

January 2006

Scott and Susan Kuhlma

Well Suited

Scott and Susan Kuhlman translate to the States the shirt-and-tie boutiques that dot European street corners, the way Starbucks dots American city-scapes.

January 2006

Alexis Walsko

Alexis Walsko

Alexis Walsko handles PR for the top forty-eight fashion, beauty, and lifestyle clients.

December 2005

Gordon Nelson

Hair Today, Gordon Tomorrow

Gordon Nelson is  senior vice president for fashion, education, and marketing at Regis Corporation.

December 2005

Kim Dalzell

Kim Dalzell

Kim Dalzell designs a line of Lucite handbags and belt buckles with an oh-so modern look that screams hip.

November 2005

Renée Walter (left) and Erin Newkirk

Renée Walter and Erin Newkirk

Renee Walter and Erin Newkirk are two busy moms with full-time jobs who are also co-creators of Red Stamp Cards, a new online service that sells hip and stylish paper greeting cards.

October 2005

Local Motion

Local Commotion

Women from twenty to seventy can find something at Barbara Heinrich’s Local Motion Clothing from the slew of miniskirts, T-shirts, coats, jeans, skirts, and dresses that crowd the racks, all in a great variety of prints and textures.

Shops 2006


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