Local fashion round-up for 4.16.09-4.22.09

Check out my writing in this week's issue of Vita.mn:

[Image by Isaias Zamarrippa / Dress by kjurek couture / Modeled by Sarah Martens]

Fashion: MNfashion Week spotlights: Laura Fulk's 'Suffocate' + Red Shoe Clothing Co.'s 'The Walk' + kjurek couture's 'Exclusively Spring + Coco & Breezy in Rumours Fashion Show

[Image of Coco & Breezy in 'Guemela Amor' by Kelly Lyal]

Fashion: American Craft Council Show + Sundog moves to MOA
Events: Geek Prom
On Stage: Flying Foot Forum's 'The Circus of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow...'
Music: Versus 5.0 'Pure Bliss' f. Anthony Attalla
Music: Yann Tiersen at Triple Rock

More weekend shopping events:
NE Fashion Icebreaker
This boutique fashion crawl in Northeast Minneapolis includes 20% off storewide sales, free flowers for every business visited, and a drawing for a round trip flight. Participating stores include GH2, Belle Reve, Melrose Antiques, I Like You, Parc Boutique, and more. (10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. Visit NortheastMinneapolis.com for more info.)

Blu Dot Annual Warehouse Sale
Save up to 70% off on hundreds of Blu Dot items at the Blu Dot Warehouse sale event. (9 a.m.-noon. Sat. Blu Dot Warehouse, 3236 California St. NE., Mpls. 612-782-1844.)

Also be sure to check out this weekend's edition of l'etoile's Weekend What's What blog, of which I'm a contributing blogger.

Secrets of the City also just posted a comprehensive guide to MNfashion Week - and Twin Cities shopping in general - 'Secrets of the Stylish'

More local fashion links:

[Image of Laura Fulk at Fashion Feud by Lauren Gantner]

-TC Daily Planet profiles local designer Laura Fulk in 'The Incredible Fulk' on the cusp of her first solo show.

-Star Tribune's rundown of MNfashion Week. (Look for my weekend version coming up in next Thursday's issue of Vita.mn.
-Blogger Katherine McMillan calls me her "fashion go-to" in her spot-on lifestyle blog Tailor Taste: 'Fashion Passion: Project Runway Is in...Not Out'. 

-Kara Nesvig's weekly column 'The Fashionista Is In' profiles local fashionista Jane Magnitude. While you're at is, check out my Q&A with Miss Magnitude that ran in Vita.mn last month.

[Image of Jane Magnitude by Fred Holston]