The Top 10 Apparel / Fashion Stores in Columbus

While many small local retail stores were scrambling to shift from brick-and-mortar to online sales in 2020, some were already well positioned to adapt to changes in the market during a pandemic year. When we surveyed our readers and editors about their favorite apparel and fashion shops of 2020, they picked HOMAGE as the number […]
Lane Bryant Taps April Sunami For T-shirt Design

Blessed. Warrior. Loved. Powerful. These are some of the affirmations shown on a screen printed graphic tee shirt, now available at Lane Bryant. The clothing company worked with Columbus artist April Sunami to feature her positive messages of the power of women. Wearing this shirt will “put your love of art and diversity on display.” […]
After an Opening Cut Short, Denim Boutique FERA Reopens in the Short North

On Tuesday, May 12, Ohio’s retailers will begin reopening to the public after the state’s Stay at Home order closed all non-essential businesses in late March. Some Central Ohio businesses were just opening their doors for the first time, or preparing to, when coronavirus pandemic shut everything down, including a few restaurants. Denim Boutique FERA, […]
Student Work on Display at CCAD Senior Fashion Show Preview

Editor’s Note: A preview of the CCAD Senior Fashion Show was held before the Coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools and limited mass gatherings. However, the students’ hard work will still have the opportunity to be showcased virtually as a part of another annual event, Chroma: Best of CCAD. Each spring Columbus College of Art & Design […]
The Top 10 Apparel / Fashion Stores of 2019

Columbus is well known as a retail mecca — both from the large number of retail corporate headquarters and jobs, as well as destination-based shopping centers like Easton Town Center. When we poll our readers and editors about fashion and apparel though, they tend to focus more on the unique boutiques and shops scattered around the […]
Shop Talk: Local Apparel Brand Offers Gender Equal Clothing

Passionate about filling a perceived hole in the market, clothing company Olly Awake offers gender equal clothing. Founder Kevin Terry Smith and designer Celeste Malvar-Stewart teamed up to create the brand, and together they are making and selling articles of clothing that redefine fashion gender types, while also asking consumers to rethink their own preconceived […]
Shop Talk: Rose & Remington Opens First Columbus Boutique at Polaris

In Mid-November, Ohio-based boutique Rose & Remington opened their first Columbus location inside Polaris Fashion Place. It’s the company’s first store inside of a shopping mall. Mother and daughter team Dee Alexander and Kristen Ponchot launched Rose & Remington in November 2013. The pair already owned a modern-day general store, Green Country Market in Lebanon, […]