Macy’s Wants you to Walk This Way on The Runway for The Cherry Blossom Festival

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ABC7, Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom Festival, Cynne Simpson, cynthia de lorenzi, fashion, Macy's, National Cherry Blossom 2012 Centennial, Runway, Special Events, style, Stylist, Success in the City, WJLA

5 Success in the City Models Wanted to Walk and Rock the Runway to Show off that Success in the City Smile & Style!

Macy’s is extending a special invitation to Success in th eCity to participate in their women’s fashion presentation with host ABC7/WJLA’s anchor Cynne Simpson!

Macy’s Metro Center is a proud supporter of the National Cherry Blossom 2012 Centennial. Macy’s is please to celebrate the once in a lifetime celebration with activities highlighting the rich culture and tradition of Japan. For the second year, Macy’s will showcase their in-store flower show, this year extending to three spectacular weeks! During the three weeks, Macy’s will host exciting in-store events including cooking demonstrations, fashion events, music and dance performances, a family fun day and more.

Join ABC7/WJLA-TV’s, Cynne Simpson for our fashion challenge! Your mission: put together the perfect outfit for our models! The challenge winner will receive a $100 macy’s gift card*. While you’re here, visit with our talented team of beauty experts and discover how to create a photo-worthy finish with spring’s fresh, new shades. With any $100 or more women’s fashion purchase receive a pair of tickets** to Strange Interlude at the Shakespeare Theatre Company and enjoy a special copy of the latest book Cherry Blossom: The Official Book of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

To participate as a Success in the City Runway model contact Christina Fulton at christina.m.fulton@macys.com

Prime Time Fashionable Photo Shoot

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Art, cynthia de lorenzi, fashion, Fashion Photo Shoot, Photography, Social Media, Social Media Head Shots, Success in the City, Violetta Markelou, Violetta Markelou Studio

Prime Time Fashion Photo Shoot

Quiet on the Set; Lights, CAMERA, Action

Remember school picture day? You were either in that goofy school uniform or your mom made you wear that awful blouse with the ruffles, you didn’t want to smile because of your braces and and that stupid bow you had in your hair.

Let’s face it, with so many social media channels we now need to have our picture taken every year just to show how we are growing up in our own business and world. Well times and changed and you can call the “shots” and present your face just the way you want.

We found this incredible deal and couldn’t wait to share it with you!

                                                      
If you are using images of your old bad self on social media sites, i.e., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Social Media experts advise that women should have their image updated every year or to be really candid every every six-months. That is whay we are sharing this great opportunity for YOU to have your photo taken by an expert photographer and make-up artist, Violetta Markelou. I had my photo shoot day on Friday, January 20th and it was a fantastic experience! In this picture with Violetta you will see I am showing off my fabulous made-up face created by by Violetta!

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When

Now through January 31st, 2012 9:00 AM   through   5:00 PM

Location

Violetta Markelou Studio
5710 Baltimore Ave.
Hyattsville, MD
United States

Contact

Phone: 301-367-8739
Email: violettamarkelou@gmail.com

 

Success in the City and The Little Black Dress Experiment Touring America

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Adam August, cynthia de lorenzi, DC, fashion, holland and knight, Laura Lee Designs, Laura Lee Williams, Lori van Gemert, Society Style, Sonora Boots, style, Success in the City, Tiffany Bracelet, Valerie Elizabeth, washington

You may be familiar with the Little Black Dress Experiment, originally launched in 2009 by Society Stylist Valerie Elizabeth.  Valerie is the founder of Society Stylist and creator of The Little Black Dress Experiment – as seen on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The WB as well as online at Yahoo, AOL and The Today Show.  She is a fashion stylist, ambassador for GLAMOUR Magazine, Lucky Magazine.  In her experiment Valerie took one piece of clothing, an LBD and wore and restyled it 31 different ways in a single month.

This year Valerie has expanded The Little Black Dress Experiment by inviting specially selected women (known for their style) from each of the United States to participate.  Each woman is given a chic LBD by Anne Taylor and a few key accessories to help in their styling.  The goal to see how each participant styles her own LBD.

One of our very own renowned local style mavens, Laura Lee Williams of Laura Lee Designs (the designer of those fabulous glittering handbags you see so many of our members carry at our posh events was selected to represent Washington, DC.

Laura Lee decided that it would be fun to make it a local event by sharing the dress with her friends and see how they would style it for the 31 days of August.  Ergo, “sisterhood of the traveling dress” was launched and Success in the City’s CEO, me, and Lori van Gemert, our Executive Director were invited to participate.

Our mission, which we happily accepted was to style our dress in our own way, but include a Laura Lee chic bag with each of our changes.  Of course we giddily accepted.

On Thursday, we donned our LBD’s and headed out for a “day in the life of Lori and Cynthia.  We began our morning by visiting our bank, The Business Bank.  Lori

Lori van Gemert

has incredible style and began her LBD morning with a chick red tie and fabulous shoes.  I started the day paying homage to my home state Texas and styled my LBD with pastel yellow and pink Sonora boots by Double H Boots (a gift from my husband, a true Texan).

Cynthia de Lorenzi

Following our visit to the bank we headed to The Palm for lunch.

Lori van Gemert

We did a bit of a style change prior to heading to lunch, donning fishnet stockings and a change of shoes.  Lori wasn’t sure about the fishnets but we were stopped numerous times by both men and women complimenting us on our look!

Following lunch at The Palm we stopped by for a quick visit with our attorney, Adam August at Holland and Knight.  Even Adam commented on our chic style and loved the fishnets.

Lori van Gemert, Adam August and Cynthia de Lorenzi

A busy diva needs to fuel herself throughout the day so off to Danielle’s Desserts

Danielles Desserts

at The Galleria where we visited with Danielle (bakery chef extraordinaire) for quick nibble of her delicious Caramel frosted cake and a cup of java.  Of course we watched our calories and shared our treat.

Lori van Gemert

This was such a fun and inspiring project that I am already thinking of fun new ways to style those handy little LBDs that I keep in my closet!

Scene by Sanam

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Clarendon, dress, fashion, interviews, Mary Rosado, Sahnam Toosi, Sanam Toossi, style

Spotted: Mary Rosado

Where: ( Clarendon) Arlington

What are you wearing? Outfit- Benetton, belt-Banana Republic, shoes-Steve Madden, bag-H&M

1.Who is your fashion icon? Love Penelope Cruz style-she dresses appropriate for occasion and is confident

2. How would you describe your fashion style? Classic Style

3. What is the one clothing item you cannot live without? Any of my dresses

4. What fashion tip do you have for the readers? Don’t be afraid to try something on even if it doesn’t look great on rack. Some of my best outfits have been ones I didn’t want to try on.

Sanam Toossi is a native Washingtonian.  She enjoys blogging about events, fashion, and other  interesting topics, which will be known as “Scene by Sanam”.  Also, you can read her write-ups for Ask Miss A at www.askmissa.com. Follow her on Twitter @imsanamie.  If you have an event you want her to cover email her at imsanamie@gmail.com

Handbag entrepreneur Laura Lee Williams

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Design, fashion, handbag, international, purse, style

Beautiful beads from Tokyo—more than 30,000 of them—grace the most elaborate offering by Laura Lee Designs, an international handbag firm founded in 2005 by California native Laura Lee Williams. Other designs—such as her trademark M bag—feature fewer beads, but the focus here is on the three-inch wrap of Australian snakeskin in the middle. “The white version is perfect for weddings, and pink version is a personal favorite because we contribute a portion of the proceeds from each purchase to Breast Cancer Research,” says the soft-spoken brunette, who shares the tale of how she got started in the handbag business as she sips chamomile tea at a café not far from her current base of operations in Tyson’s Corner, VA.

Although her father and siblings all work in the TV and movie industry, Laura Lee didn’t opt for a career in Hollywood but graduated with a degree in economics from UCLA, and later got a master’s degree in international studies from Harvard University. She spent most of her career working on strategic initiatives and marketing programs for Fortune 500 firms such as Nike, American Express, and Apple Computer. But when she accepted a job as VP of global business with Hong Kong’s Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) in 1999, her time spent in China inspired her to look at the world in a new way.

“I helped PCCW transform itself from an old guard telecom company into a cutting-edge high-tech organization that provides Wi-Fi in airports, developed call centers and established broadband services,” she explains. “In doing so, I worked closely with Chinese executives and watched as they planned strategies that took a long-term view of business. It was a very different approach from what I experienced earlier in my career when I worked for U.S. executives. Too often, we Americans focus only on short-term profits and as a result, some very good ideas never got the chance to take root.”

In early 2003, Laura Lee decided to meld the best of both cultures into a company of her own. Her mission: To manufacture elegant hand-beaded handbags and sell them to a sophisticated clientele in the U.S. and abroad. Her timing was good. The total value of imports of women’s handbags or purses had recently hit $1 billion, according to the Gale Encyclopedia of American Industries. And Laura Lee’s bags, which range from $250 to $700, started snapping up a nice portion of it from retail shops in Spain, Australia and the U.K. In the U.S. they can be found at Bloomingdale’s, Fred Segal, the Ritz-Carlton gift shops, and tony boutiques from Los Angeles to Miami.

Her bags hit prime time when one was featured on a 2006 episode of Desperate Housewives. Actress Eva Longoria’s character Gabrielle Solis carried a Laura Lee handbag—and the show’s costume designers made an outfit to match. Organizers of the March 2007 Oscar Wilde pre-Oscar party saw the episode and called Laura Lee to order six of her purses to auction off to celebrities, and invited Williams to the gala.

“Being at the Oscars was amazing,” admits Laura Lee. “My bags are popular with women who pride themselves on being fashionable, original, and standing out in a crowd. I like that in a woman, and want to encourage more ladies to make a statement and be recognized.”

For more information, visit www.lauraleedesigns.com.

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