Ala Moana Macy’s rolls out ‘doo.ri for Impulse’ collection
The entire "doo.ri for Impulse only at Macy’s" collection, a collaboration between the retail giant and designer Doo-ri Chung, is now available at Macy’s Ala Moana.
The capsule collection features soft fabrics, art-inspired prints and feminine silhouettes, all grounded in blues and grays with red, black and orange. Included are short and maxi-length dresses, sweaters and cardigans, knit and faux-leather skirts, leggings and outerwear that can be worn alone or mixed together and that can easily transition from day to night.
After launching her signature collection in 2003, Chung’s brand quickly found critical and commercial success in the densely populated New York design community. Within a year of launching her label, the graduate of Parsons the New School of Design was named as a finalist in the first CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund and was prominently featured in the Douglas Keeve film "Seamless," which documented the challenges and triumphs of three designers with growing businesses. By 2005 she had been inducted as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America and in 2006 won the Samsung Fashion Design Fund Award, CFDA Swarovski/Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Design Talent and the CVFF grand prize.
Pieces from her Macy’s collection are priced from $39 to $159.
House of Aria celebrates new store on Bethel Street
The House of Aria’s Pearl City shop has been so successful that owner Melody Domingo opened her second boutique, in downtown Honolulu, at 1140 Bethel St., next to Super Citizen.
She’ll celebrate the grand opening from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, with a dessert bar and photo booth, and swag bags for the first 50 people who make purchases. There will be prize giveaways every 30 minutes after the private event.
Ten percent of the proceeds from sales on grand-opening night will go to the Kapiolani Health Foundation, a nonprofit that helped Domingo when her daughter was in the neonatal intensive care unit nine years ago.
For more information, visit www.houseofariaboutique.com.
Find fashions, accessories and more at downtown event
Shop, Bop & Grind! returns to the corner of Bethel Street and Chaplain Lane downtown from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday.
Among the local vendors bringing creativity and color to the street are:
» Charisma Industries: offering Wizard T-shirts printed on American Apparel material.
» Sassy Lassy: clothing, bags, jewelry and more.
» AltPercept: playful handmade jewelry and accessories comprising embroidery thread, feathers, beach glass and stones.
» Catwings Couture: dangerously cute hair accessories and fascinators.
» Free Art Movement/Beneath Everything: handmade sewn, crocheted, knitted, duct-taped, hand-painted wooden accessories and artwork.
» Katharine Rita Designs b2c jewelry: eclectic jewelry for "Beach 2 City" wear.
While there you can update your Facebook page with help from Daniel Gavern’s "Fix Your FACE(book) Photobooth." The film student will offer digital portraits at $3 per photo, while Photoshop expert Michelle Poppler can fix your face, retouching blemishes and wrinkles for an additional $2. Final files will be emailed to you. Proceeds will help fund Gavern’s short student film "HI-BRID MOMENTS."
Bare Escentuals offers skin care
If you loved Bare Escentuals bareMinerals makeup, you’re gonna love that the company has now made the leap to skin care, with day and night regimens involving cleansing, moisturizing and evening renewal.
High-quality, plant-based ingredients are a match for those included in luxury products, at a much lower price. The Purely Nourishing Moisturizer for combination skin, for instance, contains antioxidant ingredients such as honeysuckle, red tea, green tea, chamomile, coffee, licorice, apricot kernel oil, soybean and pomegranate sterols, plus vitamins A, B5, C and E, at $28.
In addition, it’s free of parabens and artificial oils, and has the spa scent of essential oils and lavender.
