Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.Two Become OneWhat: Valerie Joseph boutiques at McCully and Ward merge into one location at Ala Moana Center. If you missed the closing sales at the previous locations, check out the Ala Moana…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events. Two Become One What: Valerie Joseph boutiques at McCully and Ward merge into one location at Ala Moana Center. If you missed the closing sales at the previous locations, check out…
Lately your once humble beauty supply has become an arsenal rivaling Saddam’s WMD stockpile (oh wait, he didn’t have any!). Time to surrender your hoard and adopt one powerful weapon— Cor Silver Soap. In just one step, this nano-silver and…
Sometimes you have to shell out big bucks to kick it in style. But while that makes perfect sense for say, a New Year’s limo ride in hot new heels, when buying edgy street wear for baby you can’t keep…
Your mission: Gather the latest intel on fashion trends from Italy, Spain, Brazil, Australia and Indonesia. Culture, traditional arts and fabrics, and anything found in nature are hot spots. Blend in with artisans by creating a line of garments, connecting…
Today, we interrupt our regularly scheduled updates on the hottest summer bikinis and best places to blow your diet to bring you some news and background on Lei Chic. First, answers to your FAQs. The stories you get each day…
Lei Chic's guide to the weekend's best events.Clothes Make The ManWhat: UH grad Dan Weaver, who advanced through three rounds of Project Runway interviews in 2007, debuts his latest collection and throws an after party. Order the pieces you like,…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events. Clothes Make The Man What: UH grad Dan Weaver, who advanced through three rounds of Project Runway interviews in 2007, debuts his latest collection and throws an after party. Order the pieces…
Fairy tale ideas you’ve long since given up on: a land where you never grow up (or – presumably – old), a glass slipper that somehow attracts the most handsome and successful men, and that spoonful of sugar that makes…
Tearing into a fresh batch of your mom’s cookies usually means just pulling back the tin foil from the plate. But when Michael Ching’s mom, Clara, makes cookies, they’re delivered in a white-ribbon-tied, vellum-sleeved case decorated with custom illustrations of…
There just aren’t enough hours in the day – especially when half of them are spent sitting in traffic. Crawling down a backed-up H-1 lane behind a tourist with nowhere to go while your errand time melts away no longer…
Swimming with sharks. Tow-in surfing. Hiking au naturel to a mauka waterfall. Yeah, you’ll try anything once, but for something to become habit you have to completely fall in love (like you did with eating lilikoi-lemon cupcakes ). So meet…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events. Art Me UpWhat:The last few days to see the latest paintings from local artist Isis Godfrey-Byrne, a collection of ethereal, impressionist land, sea and sky scenes.When: Through SundayWhere: Cedar Street Galleries, 817…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events. Art Me UpWhat:The last few days to see the latest paintings from local artist Isis Godfrey-Byrne, a collection of ethereal, impressionist land, sea and sky scenes.When: Through SundayWhere: Cedar Street Galleries, 817…
You like to live life on the edge. Not the Brittany Spears kind of teeter-totter (which is really over the edge), but you know—free, loose and with a healthy rush of excitement. Now you can add eating at the long-awaited,…
Fundraisers have come a long way since you and your teammates sold Zippy’s chili tickets to go to a tournament on Maui. Get ready for a FUN-draiser you don't want to miss...Mark your calendar for an event that’s got all…
Fundraisers have come a long way since you and your teammates sold Zippy’s chili tickets to go to a tournament on Maui. Get ready for a FUN-draiser you don't want to miss...Mark your calendar for an event that’s got all…
If somebody (like a book author sporting a Dorothy Hamill haircut) asks if you’re a winter, spring, summer or fall, remind them it’s 2008 (not 1987) and you’ll wear whatever color you like, ok? But when Tricia Komae of Devine…
Arriving home after a long workday, you like to plant yourself in a lounge position and stay there. Some may call you lazy (so what?), but you prefer another moniker: Relaxation Practitioner. If you’re going to claim expert status, then…
From: Lei Chic (mail@leichic.com) To: feedback@evite.com Re: Account Cancellation Dear Evite, Sure, we had a good thing going, for a while. You were there for me during the Bad Sweater Party of 2006, when somehow I invited more than 500…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.Follow the WavesWhat: Tonight and tomorrow are the last nights to see “Surfwise,” the documentary film that follows the life of the surfing Paskowitz family. Stanford-educated Doc Paskowitz, his wife and nine children…
Should I have children, or travel? Pursue my dreams or get a job with benefits? Go to the denim sale or pay my electric bill? Such pressing life questions seem simple compared to the quandary of middle-aged everyman Marcus Ripps,…
Your go-to black bikini? Getting a little see-through. That sequined red baby with the blinged-out details? Pool (and possibly mainland) appropriate only. Then there’s always your rash guard and board shorts... Ready to quit your beachin’? Bikinis from Hawai‘i designers…
