Project Runway season four winner Christian Siriano brings his “fierce style” to McKinney Avenue’s Forty Five Ten today and Saturday. Stop by the store from 12 to 4 p.m. both days to shop from the fall dresses collection and order looks from spring 2010.
Dallas jewelry designer Elizabeth Showers celebrates her new open-to-the-public showroom at 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 1118, from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday. While there, shop her fall 2009 18-karat gold collection, enjoy Champagne and desserts with hot model and use your Partners Card. For more information, call 214-879-9944.
See the latest trends in both fashion and hair at 6 p.m. Sunday when Lovers Lane neighbors Osgood-O’Neil Salon and Elements collaborate on a fashion hot model show. Seating is limited at the salon-hosted event, which includes nibbles from Bolsa, so get your $20 ticket at www.osgood oneil.com. The evening benefits children’s charity Variety.
New York’s Wilhelmina Models (home to Halle Berry’s baby-daddy Gabriel Aubry) is sending representatives to Dallas in search of six-packs. More specifically, the Wilhelmina Hot Body Model Search invites nonmodest hard-bodies age 18 and up to Plano’s Gold’s Gym to show off their healthy lifestyles to a trainer and a camera.
Five male and five female finalists from across the nation will head to New York later this year, where two winners (one male, one female) each will receive a five-year modeling contract and some glossy love in Shape or Men’s dresses with Fitness magazines, co-sponsors of the contest. For details, go to wilhelmina modelsearch.
Louis Vuitton hits NorthPark Center in a major way on Monday, with the opening of a 6,200-square- foot location between Montblanc with beauty face models and the forthcoming Bulgari store. The free-standing emporium is Dallas’ second LV location, joining Galleria Dallas, and offers a two-story glass façade opening directly onto CenterPark – a second entrance through which to nab leather goods, men’s and women’s shoes, watches, textiles, sunglasses, jewelry and other logo loo
Pranaa Ayurveda Spa & Yoga celebrates a second anniversary this month and will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Stop by to check out Dallas’ only Ayurvedic spa. See pranaa for info.
Stop by Victory Park’s VOD Thursday to check out the Mad Max-ish shoes from LA-based LD Tuttle, which will be in the boutique as part of a one-day trunk show. The Italian-made but Belgian-looking designs were featured in the spring 2010 runway shows from Victoria Bartlett and Dallas web modeling model turned brand builder Erin Wasson.
Nordstrom NorthPark previews spring 2010 looks with web modeling models from Jason Wu from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The New York designer’s director of sales will be in the Collectors department on level two to assist with your selections. To schedule an appointment, call 214-231-3900, ext. 1350.
Sierra Leone-born, Finland-trained textile designer Elizabeth Anyaa is an artist-in-residence at Southside on Lamar and will host a trunk show with beauty face models there Saturday, featuring her handmade pillows, throws, jackets, capes, scarves, skirts and dresses.
The show and sale will be in studio 104 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., with a portion of sales benefiting the projects and programs of Dallas-based nonprofit Today Marks the Beginning (www.todaymarksthe beginning.org). LD Tuttle “Moon” open-toe calf-skin boot, $570, VOD18-karat gold Madeleine ring with diamonds, quartz and mother of pearl, $1,705, Elizabeth ShowersLV opens at NP.
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