And so does the U.K. retailer CRUISE. Offering many sexy styles of Jimmy Choo shoes, CRUISE is a great place to shop for some of the finest shoes in the industry today.

Established in Edinburgh in 1981, CRUISE has grown from its first store selling cutting-edge designer menswear, to a collection of highly successful and influential designer boutiques specializing in high end fashion products for men and women.

Their philosophy is simple – to offer you exceptional service and exclusive style. Wherever you shop with CRUISE, a personal stylist is on hand to help in any way they can.

CRUISE is now recognized as one of the UK’s leading independent luxury retailers with a fantastic reputation for iconic international designer collections, directional street-led fashion and premium denim brands.

Their stores are contemporary style galleries, offering the season’s most coveted fashion products for men and women. Each boutique has its own personality and tailored brand mix, to reflect the individuality of the customers who shop there.

Like their clients, CRUISE’s staff are on trend and in style, offering an unrivalled level of personalized customer service. Fashion savvy and knowledgeable about the brands and products they stock, they are committed to delivering the ultimate shopping experience to their diverse, discerning customer base. Take a look and shop around. http://www.cruisefashion.co.uk/

Van Mildert is synonymous in the North of England with fashion, innovative product and lifestyle. Catering for both men and women, their stores offer fashion across many platforms to the style and image conscious. They have made it their goal since 1996 to encapsulate all that is new and exciting within the fashion industry and showcase this product under one roof alongside some of the strongest and most relevant collections in the world. All stores offer a wide variety of collections to suit our broad clientele and are spilt across sections catering for young fashion, branded fashion, concept design, and premium sportswear.

They have many great brands in their stores – with Stone Island being one of them. Stone Island is a classic Italian sportswear label founded by Massimo Osti. Established in 1981, the success of the brand is largely due to their research and innovation both in the construction and details of the finished garments and in exclusive materials developed through a tight co-operation with specific fabric producers. Taking inspiration from military uniforms and workwear, garments are highly technical making extensive use of experimental dyeing and printing techniques.

Van Mildert was established in 1996 as a men’s and women’s fashion boutique in picturesque Durham City. Retailing from an old 17th century Gaol, the Grade 1 listed building on Elvet Bridge leads to the cathedral in the heart of the city. The store certainly has character and “Bob” the “tour guide” even used to bring the city’s many daily visitors to marvel at the store, shocked by the retail space they had created. Van Mildert was certainly new and exciting, retailing in a space with so much character and history. This lifestyle store was one of the first really directional independents. Back then Margiela, Dries Van Noten, Comme Des Garçon, Helmut Lang and Costume National were only available inside of London, but now the North East had its own fashion lifestyle store – a haven for the fashionista. Books from Atlas littered the old shelves, home accessories from Atomic brightened up the display cases, and furniture from SCP was used daily by customers shopping to the latest sounds on Rough Trade. Local artists exhibited their work in store and sculpture installations from art students and the region’s designers all had a price tag, adding to the lifestyle concept. Customers from as far as London would spend an afternoon in the store with some of the most experienced and passionate staff who still feature in the industry today.

Over the last 15 years the North East has seen some of the strongest and most visionary fashion retailers in the U.K. The area is well known for its product led customer and is often compared to Manchester in their forward thinking mentality. Innovative, conceptual, cool, but overall fashionable and aspiring to wear the best clothing available. These ideals and core values are what still drive them today. Check them out here http://www.vanmildert.com/

Call it style with a cause. Prom Boutique, a hip long island charity, is in full collection mode. The program, which started almost 20 years ago, collects gently worn formal wear and donates it to girls on Long Island who cannot easily afford a new prom dress.

“They are thrilled to be giving their dresses new legs,” said Lola Intagliata of Clear Skin Salon. “They enjoyed wearing it at their prom, now they’re looking forward to having another girl have the experience they had.”

Collection sites are located all over the island, including at a West Hempstead salon. The dresses are then gathered and brought to a larger space at the end of April where the girls can shop ’til they drop. Each girl receives a free dress with accessories and on the spot alterations. The charity collects about 3,000 dresses per year.

“They’re allowed to shop for dresses, they find their sizes, it’s all color coordinated,” said Anne Sprotte, Prom Boutique coordinator. “And they go into the fitting room and they come out and their eyes are sparkling, their moms are crying.”

Donors are happy to make those moments possible. They say have no reservations about letting go of their fine threads.

“I got such great use out of the dress when I got to use it myself and I know what the dress meant to me,” one donor said. “I hope someone would get the same enjoyment out of it.”

You can donate your formal wear before April 22.

www.longislandvolunteercenter.org

(by Ashley Mastronardi – original source here)

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