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From High School Dropout to Winning a Trophy at Harlem Fashion Week — a Dream Comes True

Andres Biel looking at his designs. Isoke Samuel/Bklyner.On Sunday September 15, at the City Museum of New York, Andres Biel walked down a newly erected runway, past the flashing lights of photographers and wild applause of recently converted fans. At the end, he reached for his trophy and

Business

Industry City Maker Spotlight: Malia Mills

Malia Mills Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinFour years ago, fashion designer Malia Mills moved her studio from the garment center in Manhattan to Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. She’d been in Manhattan since beginning the business in her apartment in 1993 in between nights waitressing at the Odeon. The

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FIT at Brooklyn Army Terminal

Via Fashion Institute of TechnologyHey Brooklyn, Do you want to learn what it takes to start a clothing line? Let the Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn Army Terminal [http://www.fitnyc.edu/ccps/fit-brooklyn.php] location help you answer the questions you have and those you did not know to

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FIT at Brooklyn Army Terminal

Sunset Park, Brooklyn (via Fashion Institute of Technology)Hey Brooklyn! Are you trying to figure out how to get your clothing line off the ground, how to price your work or how to merge sustainability and ethics into your design process?The Fashion Institute of Technology [http://www.fitnyc.edu/

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Mayor Announces Plans For “Made In NY” Campus In Sunset Park

“Made in NY” Campus rendering via the Office of Mayor Bill de BlasioMayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/084-17/state-the-city-mayor-de-blasio-creates-made-ny-manufacturing-campus-bush-terminal-in#/0] the city’s $136 million plan for a 300,000-square-foot “Made in New York” Campus at Sunset Park’s Bush Terminal. Joined by

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Credit Cards Stolen At The Greene Grape Annex Were Used To Go On A Haute Shopping Spree

There’s been another attack of thieving fashionistas [/blog/2016/06/02/thieving-fashionista-order-9k-barneys-victims-card/] at the Greene Grape Annex [/?s=greene+grape] (753 Fulton Street) and cops are asking for help in finding the two unknown male culprits, police say. The sticky-fingered sartorialists struck at 5:20pm on June 27 at

Arts & Culture

How A Recent Pratt Grad Made Rihanna Sparkle

Rihanna steals the show in Calvin Harris’ new music video — well, her jumpsuit does anyway. And there’s a Pratt [/?s=pratt]grad to credit for it. 2016 Pratt Institute grad Isabel Hall [http://www.isabelhall.com/] designed the dress for her senior thesis project and not long after the

Announcements

Prime Boutique: Fashionable Attire For Every Woman (Sponsored)

Photo by: Natalie Viglione/Corner Media GroupGRAND OPENING! Sheepshead Bay’s newest woman’s clothing boutique, Prime Boutique, has only been open for a few weeks, but has already attracted a steady following and plenty of repeat customers. Why? Because it’s bringing trendy, modern looks to the neighborhood, nothing

Arts & Culture

To Do: Avant Garde Film, Fashion Norms, And Books Galore

Patrons of Greenlight Bookstore peruse the tables of new books. (Photo by Jose Bayona)Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/

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Local Designer Alexis Mera Gathers Inspiration For Her Clothing Line From The Neighborhood

Alexis wearing her Albemarle Maxi Dress [http://www.alexismera.com/collections/dresses/products/coming-april-albemarle-maxi-dress-in-grey-heather] . (Photo via Alexis Mera)Local fashion designer Alexis Mera [http://www.alexismera.com/] was so inspired by the neighborhood that she named all of her pieces after streets in the neighborhood. Now she has a popup

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For Our Littlest Neighbors, Local Streets Are Their Own Personal Runway

Zoe, age five, loves pineapples.Spring flowers are popping up all over the place, but not just in local parks and gardens — they’re also making appearances on kids clothing! Shirts, sunglasses, hats, sneakers and more are showing signs of sunshine celebrations everywhere we turn, so we took the opportunity

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Leisure Life NYC Named One Of The 25 Coolest New Brooklyn Businesses

In what will come as no surprise to the chic men of Clinton Hill, Business Insider [http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-new-small-businesses-in-brooklyn-2014-9] has named Leisure Life NYC [http://www.leisurelifenyc.com] (559 Myrtle Avenue between Emerson and Classon Avenues) one of the 25 coolest new business in Brooklyn. In a recent

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Pratt’s Jefferson Musanda & Nzinga Knight To Be Featured On Project Runway Season 13

Exciting news for two alumni of the Pratt Institute [https://www.pratt.edu] –former BFA fashion students Nzinga Knight [http://signup.nzingaknight.com/?r=http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnzingaknight.com%2F&ei=

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Beyonce’s New Coney Island Music Video, For Which She Tortured An Innocent Woman To Tears, Is Now Out

Quote the internet: ERMAHGUD! BEYONCE’S GOT A NEW MOOZAK VIDYA! Beyonce’s new Coney Island-themed music video for her song “XO” dropped on Monday, causing my news alerts to go haywire with mentions of Coney Island. So, apparently, I can’t get back to bringing you the news until

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Remember When: Beatniks And Greasers Strutted The Boardwalk… 56 Years Ago

Hep Cats (Source: 50sand60s via Twitter)Dig the scene. A couple of cool daddios parade down the boardwalk on Coney Island, smoking cigs and flashing tattoos, grooving on all the squares terrified over their rock n’ roll attitudes. Yes, that was an incredibly lame description but the picture above, provided

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Meet Local Hat Maker Jasmin Zorlu

Jasmin Zorlu [https://www.etsy.com/shop/JasminZorlu] is soft-spoken and relatively new to Ditmas Park, but don’t let her seeming shyness fool you. Using exotic materials and merging futuristic shapes with classic looks from decades past, the milliner of Marlborough creates headwear completely unafraid to make a statement.

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Hipster Glasses Banned At Borough Park Yeshiva

It’s all Buddy Holly’s fault (Source: vanessajakupi.buzznet.com)Rabbis in Borough Park have decided to ban hipster glasses at the Bobover Yeshiva B’Nei Zion, according to a Gothamist report [http://gothamist.com/2013/05/12/rabbis_really_dont_want_hasids_to_b.php]. Gothamist had Raghav

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Going Vogue: Vote for Prospect Park Zoo’s Top Fashionista

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The web is exploding with Oscars red carpet talk today. Did you realize, though, that we have some serious fashionistas right here in our own backyard? The Prospect Park Zoo [http://www.prospectparkzoo.com/] is currently holding a best dressed competition between five of their most trend-worthy

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Luv My Vision Opens Second Store In Brighton Beach

Some local businesses expand faster than others, and Luv My Vision Optique, the high-end eyewear vendor that opened at 1702 Sheepshead Bay Road in April [/luv-my-vision-optique-opens-at-1702-sheepshead-bay-road/], wasted no time: they opened a second location in Brighton Beach in September. We got our first glance of it last week when we

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Russian Beauties Make The Glossies

Marina Levitis (Source: New York Magazine/ Dina Litovsky)Though Russian Dolls [/tag/russian-dolls/] was ripped from us at an all-too-early-time, the true spirit of Russia’s pageantry remains alive on the pages of New York Magazine. Recently, as part of their style series, New York Magazine profiled several Russian women

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Luv My Vision Optique Opens at 1702 Sheepshead Bay Road

Luv My Vision Optique is now located at 1702 Sheepshead Bay Road. Photo by Erica ShermanIn February we reported [/galit-couture-packs-up-and-moves-to-staten-island/] that Galit Couture, a bridal dress and evening wear designer that occupied the corner of 1702 Sheepshead Bay Road for more than a decade, “has packed up its frilly goods

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Galit Couture Packs Up And Moves To Staten Island

Photo by Erica ShermanGalit Couture – a.k.a. Fashion Salon Galit – the bridal dress and evening wear designer at 1702 Sheepshead Bay Road, has packed up its frilly goods and high-tailed it over to Shat-On Staten Island. The store had been there for more than a decade, but now the