Fashion and Retail

Duvin Design has partnered with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to release a limited-edition capsule collection, inspired by the team’s Creamsicle uniforms and mascot, Bucco Bruce. The collection includes eight pieces including T-shirts, hats, a fleece crewneck, a work jacket, a short-sleeve button-up and a rugby polo. The designs incorporate the Buccaneers’ classic Creamsicle color scheme

Saks Fifth Avenue has opened a boutique location at The Vinoy Resort and Golf Club. The Fifth Avenue Club, the brand’s luxury personal shopping and styling service, has previously been housed within Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Available to both local customers and The Vinoy Resort and Golf Club guests, the Fifth Avenue Club St. Petersburg

Sarasota Design House, BSWANKY, has partnered with Jackie Siegel, an American socialite, model, actress and beauty pageant director. Siegal was one of the main subjects of the 2012 documentary film The Queen of Versailles. The line has three bag silhouettes with BSWANKY’s signature 24-karat gold-plated QV pendant.  The Queen of Versailles Collection will be featured

It’s true, good things do come in small packages. This Holiday season, give your loved ones the goods, while at the same time doing good for the planet. While a donation in one’s name to a favorite charity might earn you a gold star, I’m talking literal gold, in the form of sustainable, estate jewelry.

BSWANKY, a purse brand owned by Gretchen Bauer, and TWEEDS, a bespoke menswear brand owned by Donald Carlson, have announced a collaboration for three new handbags.  The handbags incorporate vintage flattened pearled Parisienne gold leaf ostrich, metallic finished lizard from a boutique family tannery in Spain, and BSWANKY’s 24kt gold hardware and statement chain. The

Season 2 Consign, an authenticated used luxury handbag and accessories company, plans to open locations in Tampa and Orlando. The Tampa location will be at 412 E. Madison Street. The Orlando location will be at 1300 N. Semoran Blvd. Founded in 2020, Season 2 Consign is a 100% female-owned, non-traditional retailer for authentic luxury handbags,

Contributed by Graham Wetzbarger  I recently found myself in Sarasota, on a quest to learn more about a young handbag brand called BSWANKY. I had met designer Gretchen Bauer a couple of months prior over a couple of Aperol spritz. She was carrying one of her kaleidoscopic handbag creations and espousing her excitement over how

Marrin Costello, founder of Marrin Costello Jewelry, will open the brand’s first brick-and-mortar location, in Tampa’s Palma Ceia neighborhood. Found in more than 300 boutiques worldwide, Marrin Costello Jewelry is a women-owned and operated brand. Marrin Costello Jewelry doesn’t tarnish and is hypoallergenic and waterproof. The brand also launched a sustainability initiative in which, for

David and Nicole Debourg-Kahn found love the second time around. Together for 10 years, and married for seven, they have five children between them. Nicole worked as a human resources executive in technology for the past 20-plus years but changed directions and formed her own business, Hazel Ivy Botanicals.  David, with his knack for custom

With the motto, “A royal pet is a healthy pet,” Royal Pets Market & Resort says it was intentional in choosing Midtown Tampa to be the location of its urban flagship store. As Tampa gains popularity, and momentum, to rival urban epicenters with the promise of opportunity, the city keeps getting better in offering a

Holidays have a habit of creeping up on us. With that in mind, in case you forgot, Father’s Day is this Sunday. You’re welcome. While it’s the thought that counts, if the dad in your life has finer tastes, luxury brands have shared their gift guides to help with ideas. Here are some of our

The Tampa Museum of Art’s fundraising event CITY: Fashion+Art+Culture will feature an appearance by Fashion Designer Silvia Tcherassi and a runway fashion show of her latest collection. Forbes named Tcherassi one of Colombia’s 50 most powerful women of 2020. As a designer and entrepreneur, she became the first Latin American designer to be invited to