After embarking on their much sought after hoodie line, husband and wife design team, Mike Gonzalez and Christine Park-Gonzalez decided to broaden their offering to a full collection.The duo have created collections that better reflected the art and sub-culture of their roots. Born in Queens, NY, Christine, has always been inspired by the arts while husband Mike pursued a career in fashion photography that eventually took him to New York and Paris. The design duo has managed to meld chic and street, resulting in a line that is both laid back yet put together. Using an array of fabrics from super soft fleece in antiqued colors to distressed leathers, detailed with oversized buttons, antique brass eyelets, and unconventional styling, the line has expanded on the hoodie concept to develop a full Men's & Women's collection.

One of our favorites: The Drake Lightweight Fleece Pullover with double-button closure and ruching at funnel neck.  Click here to get the look.

Peices from the Mike and Chris collection can be found locally at Muleh, Urban Chic, and Circle Boutique.

Photo: www.mikeandchris.com

What makes the everyday a-line dress a breathtaking break from the norm? Surprising details, simplistic wearability, and bold color infusion. Pittsburgh designer Kelly Lane hits the mark with this (implied) boatneck double layered Scallop Dress. The black and white under layering, paired with multicolored waist detailing and trimming is delightfully unexpected.

The Kelly Lane collection seeks to artfully blend the versatility of organic jersey with the playfulness of graphic prints to create wearable, yet sophisticated clothing perfect for women on the go.

Working with a local, independent seamstresses to hand make each piece, Kelly Lane produces a limited-run of high-quality clothing with a conscience.

Photo: www.kellylanedesign.com

Eclectic print dress, with tribal overtures that connote the days of free love and being one with nature. It perhaps tells the story of the fetching, bewildered babe stranded off the coast of an endless forest of exotic vegetation and treacherous obstacles; who in trying to find her way home, finds herself. Traversing the terrain, tired, bewildered, and scorn, she lands upon an expansive field of euphorically swaying bodies, dancing freely inside themselves to the electric, acoustic sounds of Woodstock. Metaphorically speaking.

It’s a jungle out there, but looking grand often beguiles the unpalatable truths of life. Still in search of your Woodstock? Do it in style. The Hendrix dress handmade by designer Sarah Johnson is an epicurean dose of simplistic impetuosity. Click here to get the look.

Photo: www.bonadrag.com

Get a little pretty in soy jersey and organic cotton. If Park Avenue sophistication is your aim, you won’t miss the mark in this amiable a-line dress. The just above the knee length is universally flattering and the belt detail is of the moment. There’s a certain guilelessness and vulnerability that’s evocative of Charlotte York out for a day in the park, inconspicuously searching for her would be soul mate. Try it with a pair of ballerina flats or throw on a pair of saucy pumps for a more dramatic look. Click here to get the look.

Photo: www.emilykatz.com

Margo Schlossberg, D.C. native and founder of Kura Design, constructs a change clutch that’s both charming and inventive. The floriography of the blue rose divulges a symbol of mystery, a metaphor for attaining the impossible. This bag is blatantly chic and slyly whimsical with its beaded strap and rose garden appliqué. It could be great for neautralizing the weightiness of an LBT, or to enhance the flirtiness of your flirtiest day dress. Click here to get the look.

Photo: www.kuradesign.com