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Look Great, Feel Great, Do Great Things

Abigail Pollak is a woman with many facets. She is a lawyer, a mother, and, as the Florida Finance Chair for Barack Obama in the 2008 election, and now a member of the NFC, is deeply involved in politics. She's also always looks good, and sees fashion, and ...

Julian Chang's Favorite Things

Julian Chang is one of the better-known womenswear designers in Miami, having been in his Biscayne Boulevard showroom for nearly ten years, and cultivating what has come to be known as the Miami look – easy flowing fabrics, sultry silhouettes, and ...

Sloane Solomon's Sacred Objects

Found Design is a dangerous place. You could walk in looking for a simple gift for a friend and walk out with a new dining set (or loveseat, or credenza). The store is such a treasure trove of smartly-restored found objects that you can't help but want a ...

Let's Hear It for the Girls

Still in their early twenties, sisters Alexandra and Miriam are very ambitious. They’ve created a fashion niche for themselves, offering a different kind of dressing experience with Gg Personal Shopping. Originally from Venezuela, these young fashionistas ...

Brittany Rawlings Has Style and Substance

Jewelry designer and fashion attorney Brittany Rawlings has used all of her talents, strengths, resources, and interests to create success in two very different fields. 

The Naples native has been living in South Florida since she started law ...

With O Cinema's Kareem Tabsch

Miami native Kareem Tabsch wanted to see more indie films in Miami. But instead of just lamenting the fact that Miami had very few venues for indie films, he decided to do something about it. Thanks to a matching grant from the John S. and James L. Knight ...

On the Beach with Tobi Salver

South Florida native Tobi Salver is the creator and owner of the super stylish online clothing store My Fox House. Though the former graphic designer grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, and spent time in Los Angeles, she's now on Miami Beach – selling her foxy ...

With Annie Vazquez, Miami's Fashion Poet

When Annie Vazquez isn’t out on the town looking generally glamourous, she’s teaching English to middle schoolers. And while many don't associate glamour with teaching, or for that matter, poetry, Vazquez has it in spades. That probably has more to do ...

With Actress Arlene Tur

A fan of quirky clothes and comfort, the stylish Cuban-American actress Arlene Tur loves the style of her native Miami, where wearing less is the way to go.

Tur started her acting career at home in Miami where she had a role on a ...

With Lala Cuevas of Revamp Relove

Lala Cuevas collects old clothes and fabrics, used buttons and lace, and with a keen style eye and sensible mission, makes them new again. In her skilled hands, frumpy frocks become feminine and flirty, and an original world of environmentally conscious ...

With Artist Alvaro Ilizarbe

Artist Alvaro Ilizarbe has a fantastic eye for fashion and an awesome sense of humor. Take these stellar qualities and mix them together with a boatload of talent, and you get Freegums, Ilizarbe’s clothing line of T-shirts and sweatshirts that ...

At Buena Vista Deli with Shareen Rubiera-Sarwar

New York native Shareen Rubiera-Sarwar started her online shop Vintage Mavens two years ago with her husband, Animal Tropical drummer and filmmaker Jorge Rubiera. Rubiera takes photographs of his wife modeling the beautiful hand-picked, vintage pieces ...

Between Destinations with Aban Sonia

Aban Sonia has the brains, the looks and the pantalones to run the show. So long as the show needs to be designed, styled, or produced. As the president of Artisans Agency, a creative production agency in Miami, Sonia is always busy adding her unique and ...

Offstage with Cuci Amador

Cuci Amador is the feminine force of electro-dance duo Afrobeta. She and collaborator Smurphio formed the band in 2006 and have kept Miami’s dance floors occupied ever since. Besides her sexy beats and lyrics, Amador’s fashion is also decidedly Miami in ...

Dreaming in Vintage with Lolo Reskin

Lauren Reskin, or Lolo, how her friends call her, is a wonder of a woman who has established herself as the heart of Miami’s indie music scene. In 2005, she opened one of the most unique and interesting record stores in Miami, Sweat Records.

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Catching Up with Elysze Held

In South Florida, the name Elysze Held is synonymous with style. As the founder of Style Out of the City, Elysze has her finger on the pulse of Miami’s vibrant and ever-growing fashion scene. Elysze’s career in fashion has spanned over 30 years. She ...

At SushiSamba with Diana Lozano

Diana Lozano has the colorful and magical aesthetic of a genie. When I met her recently at SushiSamba she was wearing an ear-to-ear smile, clothes that absolutely sparkled and that were shoes almost a foot tall.

With her entertainment company, ...

At Stone Groove with Marcus Blake

Marcus Blake is one of those characters that, the first time you see him, you immediately want to know who he is. He is Marcus Blake, a soft-spoken but wise-speaking man, and the host of Stone Groove, the Tuesday night party at The ...

At Churchill's Pub with Jen Kabuki

Her leopard purse by her side, a red rose in her hair, Jen Kabuki sat at the bar sipping a Grey Goose and cranberry. Her white skin was so perfect, I wanted to reach out and touch her to prove that she was real. She looked like a pin-up ...

At Studio 1415 with Stian Roenning

I think I wore my shades as I was talking to Stian Roenning. His creative potential just flashed me off during our whole conversation, and might have blinded me if I wasn't. He’s not just a fashion photographer doing with an impressive resume (he's shot ...