Chocolate and Cashmere
Haleigh Palmer, the owner of Golightly Cashmere, available exclusively online or at her two retail outlets, Chocolate and Cashmere in Taos and Santa Fe, is smiling.
Exquisite silver, Zapotec and Navajo rugs, fabulous Americana, great cowboy boots and hats of course, antique shops, chic boutiques, hand crafted leather goods, natural beeswax candles, rare maps, fire-blackened pottery and many other curiosities and treasures are to be found, if one avoids at all cost, the obvious.
We’ll let you in on a few local secrets here.
Haleigh Palmer, the owner of Golightly Cashmere, available exclusively online or at her two retail outlets, Chocolate and Cashmere in Taos and Santa Fe, is smiling.
When Kristian Moore bought Letherwerks from its original proprietor, Joel Wood, in 2006, it was one of the longest running businesses in Taos.
Mary Domito moved to Taos from the Bay Area in 2004, after having visited three years earlier.
Levi Son is a new shop on Ranchos Plaza and one well worth checking out if you are an avid fan of jewelry. Many of my regular readers will be very aware of my love for custom jewelry. After all, I spend so much time on the Jewelry Talk website browsing for new ideas and…
Chimayo Trading del Norte in the historic Ranchos de Taos Plaza, is a treasure trove of museum quality pottery from the Northen Pueblos – rare pottery, old enough not to be signed, baskets, weavings, silver, coral and turquoise jewelery, beadwork, wood carvings and fine art gathered from every corner of the South Western United States.
Ranchos Plaza is home to a few of my favourite shops and galleries in Taos and over the next week, we’ll visit a few of them. The Two Graces Plaza Gallery is unique in more ways than one.
Last week I showed you some behind the scenes shots of Patricia Michaels’ models getting ready for her highly anticipated Bridal and Resort Runway Show at The Sagebrush Inn.
Last Saturday despite a giant snow storm and impossible road conditions, Patricia Michaels‘ much anticipated runway show of her latest Resort and Bridal Collection was staged at the Sagebrush Hotel’s Convention Center for the annual Taos Wedding Expo.
Because he directed Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues in Taos (twice) Jack is one of the few men I’ve profiled on taoStyle this month. February has been a serious girl’s club on the blog.
Charlotte Mabry (or Charly as most of her friends know her) recalls how she and her husband Mat came to be the current owners of Horse Feathers.
Recently I asked someone if they’d seen my blog. “Oh yeah,” he replied, “that fashion blog.”
Michelle McIntosh was born in Santa Monica and brought up in Malibu, Taos, Maysville, Kentucky (where her mother Ellie is from) and the Seychelle Islands.