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The W’s Wear Wednesdays with de Rosairo

By Seattle Mag May 12, 2014

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!–paging_filter–pHead to thea href=”http://www.wseattle.com/” target=”_blank” W Seattle/a this Wednesday, May 14 for the hotel’s latest fashion find for their a href=”http://www.traceseattle.com/wearwednesdays” target=”_blank”Wear Wednesdays/a program: a href=”http://www.derosairo.com/” target=”_blank”de Rosairo/a, the first collection from former Seattleite, now San Fran-based, Nishika de Rosairo. Her summer capsule collection, which debuted to the industry in February, consists of two dresses and three tops, all in Modal, which is a lovely, soft knit that has a bit of give, and inspired by the hoodie, something that de Rosairo became smitten with as an exchange student to the States from her native New Zealand in 2003./p
p“Just like Diane von Furstenberg invented the wrap dress, de Rosairo will be known for re-imagining the hoodie,” says the designer, what wants to make it accessible for the modern woman to “incorporate it into her contemporary wardrobe.”/p
pSwing by the W from 5 to 7 p.m., meet the designer, nibble on some Fran’s chocolates and check out this emerging designer’s new work./p

 

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