Fashion and Style

Runway Returns

OMG! Karlie Kloss Gets New Haircut!

Can we all just agree that the New York Times Style section is the most important source of news in our time? How else would we know about all the ways wealthy, Ivy League-educated residents of Williamsburg and Park Slope mingle, mate, marry, raise dogs and children and send those dogs and children ... More >>

Gettin' Wiggy With It

Paul McCartney's Six Best Moustaches

Today, June 18, 2012, Paul McCartney celebrates his seventieth birthday. We're having our own private party by counting down Sir Paul's six best moustaches. Let us know your favorite McCartney mouthbrows in the comments below.

American Mustache Institute Calls on Tax Breaks for Lip Hair; Plans March on D.C.

ABC NewsDr. Aaron Perlut calls on a march on Washington.​The St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute last week joined forces with tax preparer H&R Block in calling for a $250 federal refund for men (and women) who proudly wear facial hair. Dr. Aaron Perlut, chairman of AMI, says the money ... More >>

Project:Design! Finalists: Meet Cindy Brown

​Today (finally!) is the start of 2011's St. Louis Fashion Week. For the seventh year, Brown Shoe will be presenting Project:Design!, a competition featuring the work of six designers based out of, or near, St. Louis. The lines of the top six designers, chosen online by the public, will be feature ... More >>

Project:Design! Finalists: Meet Stephen Curd

Next Tuesday, October 11, is the start of 2011's St. Louis Fashion Week. For the seventh year, Brown Shoe will be presenting Project:Design!, a competition featuring the work of six designers based out of, or near, St. Louis. The lines of the top six designers, chosen online by the public, will be ... More >>

Fashion Week Music: The Highlights, The Appearances And The Odd Soundtracks

Richard GuatyAnna Wintour eyeballing Nicki's tights. Oh, to peek inside the mind of the Vogue editrix in chief in this moment.​Thank science Fashion Week is over. Isn't it just torture? If there's something worse than not being in New York City for the circus that is Mercedes Benz Fashion Week ... More >>

When You've Got Elk Shit, Why Not Make Jewelry?

courtesy of the Missouri Department of ConservationOut of these two asses may come the means to revive southeastern Missouri's jewelry-making economy.​Folks in southeast Missouri hope that the elk that are coming to live at the Peck Ranch Conservation Area next weekend will prove to be a huge ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Sniffs Out Story on Bath Salts -- Months After News First Broke of Fake Cocaine

Post-Dispatch: It was right there! Under our nose the entire time!​Have you read the news today? Oh boy.It seems the Post-Dispatch has at last discovered that kids are snorting bath salts containing the drug mephedrone that simulates the effects of cocaine. The daily features its findings on the f ... More >>

Iconic Hairstyle's Midwestern Roots Honored

​It's been fifty years since a hairstylist in Chicago first worked iconic magic with a rat-tail comb and a ton of hairspray. And now, her contribution to the planet's catalog of fabulous is being honored by the Chicago History Museum and Cosmetologists Chicago.Margaret Vinci Heldt invented the fam ... More >>

A Very Metal Christmas

Morgan Spurlock Discusses Lip Hair, What He'll Do If Named "Mustached American of the Year"

Is that a handlebar 'stache or one half of the McDonald's golden arches? ​Morgan Spurlock will be in St. Louis on Saturday for the American Mustache Institute's annual 'Stache Bash.The filmmaker and screenwriter, perhaps best known for Supersize Me, is in the running for AMI's Robert Goulet Memori ... More >>

Free Aveda Massages at St. Louis Galleria Today

Don't you feel better already?​Black Friday shopping got you ... stressed?Today only, the Aveda Experience Center in the St. Louis Galleria is offering free head, neck, shoulder and scalp massages, says spokeswoman Kelly Plummer. No need to make an appointment; the Aveda staffers are offering the ... More >>

'Stache Bash Changes Addrache -- Moving from Hrabosky's to Shannon's on December 4

Image Via'Stache Bash headed thatta way.​This just in from the folks at the American Mustache Institute. Their annual gala slated for next month is changing addresses -- moving from the bar of one Cardinals' broadcaster to another. That's right, on December 4  'Stache Bash will take place at ... More >>

What's Baby Phat Without St. Louis Native Kimora Lee Simmons?

​Oh, the fabulosity!St. Louis native Kimora Lee Simmons is a model, mogul and fashion designer. She's perhaps best known as the face of and creative force behind Baby Phat, the clubwear line she headed that was a subsidiary of her ex-husband Russell Simmons' Phat Farm's puffy-coats-and-logo-shirts ... More >>

Feel the Fierceness

Fashion Week Finalists Announced

Solarpix PR PhotosNah, Kate Moss probably won't be there.​The beautiful people are congregating in St. Louis! Fashion Week arrives, September 7th to the 11th, bringing runway shows, charity shopping and cool parties to the city. We're so excited around here we're shaking in our stilettos, especial ... More >>

St. Louis Designer Starts Up Plus-Sized Clothing Line

Image sourceLisa Holmes in her signature "Lisa" dress.​Even if you're a size 2, clothes shopping is not always fun. But at least you have lots of options. If you're plus-sized, retailers seem to expect you to be happy with a small range of cheap, badly-fitting polyester things originally inten ... More >>

Go Eco-Chic

Holly Golightly, John Mayer Announce St. Louis Shows

British garage-rock queen-bee Holly Golightly is returning to St. Louis for the first time since August 2005 at the Firebird on Tuesday, December 1. Details forthcoming. Also, John Mayer has announced a show with Michael Franti and Spearhead at the Scottrade Center on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Ticke ... More >>

Brendan Ryan, Sully Sullenberger, Eric Holder Among Finalists for Mustache Award

Brendan Ryan reacts to news that he's a finalist.​The St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute has just released the finalists for its annual Robert Goulet Memorial Award, honoring the man (or woman) who's done the most this year to promote and uphold the mustache as a lifestyle/fashion stateme ... More >>

The 'Stache Bash 2009 Features John Oates

Daryl Hall (left) and John Oates (right). Seriously, that facial hair can totally fuck you up.​A to Z's love and admiration for the credo and mission of the American Mustache Institute -- okay, okay, who are we kidding? We mean the AMI itself -- is well-documented here. But the lads behind the end ... More >>

So, That's What Pimp Juice Smells Like! Nelly Launches a Perfume

nelly.netHave you heard the news?St. Louis' favorite rapper, Nelly, is out with new fragrance for his Apple Bottom line of female fashion wear. And no, the artist is not naming the perfume after his popular energy drink and song, Pimp Juice. Not that that matters. The ladies will still be attracting ... More >>

Rick Ankiel Has Shaved His Mustache

Well, like many great surprises, it didn't last very long.It looks like the Cardinals' Rick Ankiel has shaved it off. You know, the mustache that garnered not one, but two, blog posts, and a couple thousand visits via Google. Seems more people were interested in it than one might've guessed.It's an ... More >>

Fashionably Early

Remembering a St. Louis Haircare Pioneer

Have you heard about Chris Rock's new movie, the documentary on African-American coiffure titled Good Hair?Rock got the idea for the film a few years back when his daughter complained to him about her kinky hair. The comedian was so baffled by his daughter's complaint that he set out to examine the ... More >>

Hairy Times: St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute wants to put the 'stache back in style

Hairy Halloween

Not so secret 'stache

Jean Therapy

New denim, new outlook

Last Night: Project: Design! at Contemporary Art Museum

St. Louis Style

Feeling fashionable?

The It Girls: The next supermodel may be coming from a high school near you

St. Louis-Based American Mustache Institute Interviews My Morning Jacket's Jim James

Behind the Scenes at St. Louis Fashion Week (Video)

Glow with the Flow

2007: A Fashion Odyssey

Dress to Impress

'Stache Bridges

Bad Hair Days

A Clayton salon owner claims his former stylists are poaching his upscale clients.

Looking Good

Best Vintage Clothing Store

Pixie 9 Vintage

Best Thrift Store

Goodwill Industries

Best Costume-Jewelry Store

Hong's Trading Company

Best Hair Salon

Verve

Best Place To Get a Regular Haircut

Larry Evilsizor Barber Stylist

Best Hair On a TV Personality (Female)

Keryn Shipman, KDNL-TV (Channel 30)

Place to Be Romantic

Tony's

American Beauties

Don we now our gay apparel

Force Behind the Throne

A St. Louis barber-chair maker weathered the Depression, succumbed to Japanese competitors and adapted to changing fashion