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Sense is committed to comfortable and flattering women’s active wear. Sense has become one of the most sought-after lines since launching in 2005 due to their imaginative design and high-end fabrics that wear, pack and perform well. Sense’s pieces all stand alone but work together beautifully, flowing from morning into evening. The signature piece is the tunic pant, a pull-on pant with an attached skirt that is flattering for all sizes. For an evening out on the town, the new fall apron skirt pairs elegantly with a Sense cami, a shawl and heels. Each season Sense introduces a new...

Spring has nearly sprung, and along with it comes thoughts of breathing life back into the office wardrobe. By now we’re ready to burst out of the tired winter cocoon of sweaters, coats and tights and spread our wings in something lighter and brighter. It was time to check in with the Hi-Lo Shopper and see what she had been thinking about lately.

A true fashionista, the Hi-Lo Shopper is a career woman who manages to look glossy and groomed at all times. She loves to shop, but with her schedule has to streamline where to go in Santa Fe for what she wants in business-appropriate clothes....

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com

The two Japanese women got off the plane in Albuquerque for only one reason. Starting in New York, they had been shopping their way across the U.S. for a week. New Mexico was their last stop before heading to Los Angeles for their flight home. What were they looking for, cowboy boots? No, they both already had plenty of those. Turquoise jewelry? That was for another trip. They wanted just one thing:

A Chimayó jacket.

Sophisticated, fashion-savvy Japanese are some of the biggest customers of the centuries-old New Mexico wool-weaving tradition. In the picturesque Hispanic settlement of...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com

Two new books offer revealing glimpses into the world of haute couture. One celebrates the great post-war decade and the other exposes couture’s decline, from a tradition of quality and superlative workmanship to the mass marketing of inferior products under designer labels. They both help point to Santa Fe as a mecca for beautiful, handcrafted clothing that reflect artisan-made standards of excellence.

In April 1970, famed fashion photographer Cecil Beaton received a note from Baroness Alain de Rothschild: “Let me know when you do come to Paris and I will show you what I have!...

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
by Leslie Clark

After months of cold and drab winter, Valentine’s Day couldn’t come at a better time. Suddenly everywhere plush teddy bears demand “Hug Me,” aisles are lined with heart-shaped candy boxes, and pops of that wonderful color, red, fill shop windows. True, sweethearts hog the spotlight on Valentine’s, but it’s great for sharing the love with all your favorite people. And no matter who they are—a niece or nephew, grandmother, or good friend—in Santa Fe you’ve hit the jackpot for shopping. Here’s a guide to some gift goodies around town.

The fashion runways are decreeing fierce, bold colors...

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
by Leslie Clark

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture has a fascinating new exhibit, Native Couture: A History of Santa Fe Style (through June 7, 2009). The exhibit chronicles changes in taste and fashion from the 1880s through to the present in Native American jewelry, and from 1968 to the 1990s in clothing. Not only a dazzling collection, it celebrates the ingenuity and inspiration that's transformed traditional dress and design over time into contemporary urban chic, while still keeping elements that are timeless.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Leslie Clark • SantaFe.com

If you’re a person of, say, moderate means here in what is, let’s be frank, a pretty pricey tourist town like Santa Fe, the high season can feel a lot like a Tarot card–the one that shows a bedraggled waif, feet wrapped in rags, peering forlornly through the window at all the Gatsbys and the Daisys decked out in their crisp summer whites, champagne flutes in hand, lingering over a lavish buffet spread. In the words of a friend of mine, “If I had their money, I’d burn mine”!

Gone are the days when, for the $10 price of a standing room ticket to see The Magic Flute, you could move down into...

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
by Gail Snyder • localflavor magazine