Spring’s coming: A weekend at the Dallas Market Center
I’m heading to the Dallas Market Center this morning to check out the spring apparel and accessory offerings. In the world of fashion, spring comes in September and October and fall makes a showing in February and March.
Topsy turvy, I know, but you get used to it.
Actually, I’ll be at market Friday morning. Today I plan do a little shopping with my friend Bonnie Bing, fashion writer for the Wichita Eagle. Our plan is to hit Saks Off Fifth and Neiman’s Last Call in the Grapevine Mills mall.
“It’s all about the money, honey,” as another friend, Victoria Woods, Oklahoma’s ”Financial Diva,” says. In this case, saving some.
It’s always fun to check out stores we don’t have here. Not that Oklahoma doesn’t have great stores. It does. But with the economy tanking, it’s a great excuse to shop discount and watch the budget. Can I even use the word “budget” in the same blog as Saks and Neiman’s?
Anyway, for those who don’t know, Saks Off 5th and Neiman’s Last Call are the discount outlets of the luxury retailers, offering designer clothing and accessories, as well as some home furnishings, at savings of 40 to 70 percent off.
Friday and Saturday will be all work, listening to trend reports, watching fashion
shows, talking to Oklahoma retailers, checking out showrooms. Dallas Market Center, pictured here, is where retailers from across the country come to buy products ranging from home furnishings, gifts, decorative accessories, lighting, garden accessories and gourmet items to textiles, fashion accessories and women’s, men’s, children’s and western apparel. The Oct. 23-26 market is geared to women’s apparel and accessories.
Come Saturday evening, after pounding the tile floors for two days, I’ll be more than ready to sit and sip at the 33rd annual Dallas Fashion Awards. In past years, Bonnie and I have changed into our cocktail finery in one of the women’s restrooms. There just wasn’t time to go back to to the hotel and change, so we traipsed the block or two to the car for the clothes, then back to the market to change, then back to the car to leave our work clothes. My feet are always throbbing by the time I get to the hotel about 11:30 that night. (Yes, it’s a great job and I’m not complaining, but my feet sometimes do.)
This year’s 2008 Fashion Excellence Award will be presented to Hervé Léger by Max Azria. Max Azria is the designer behind his signature Max Azria and BCBG lines, too. The event will also feature the Herve Leger spring 2009 fashion show and the Dallas Fashion Award winners in eight categories, including bridge/designer and accessories.
It will be a busy weekend. Good thing I plan to squeeze in a little girl time before I start to work.
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I like the idea, cool!