Leslie Boyd

The reasons to love "Pupil + Paper," a design and scholarship competition and fundraiser for The Children's Lunchbox, are as layered and lovely as runway-ready garments local high school students fashioned from recycled paper and put on display at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.

She's a public face of Alaska Pacific University and has spent most of her life in the 49th state, yet her bold skirts and bright colors seem better suited to Paris than the jeans-and-sweats set in Anchorage.

Unless your style inspiration is Shaun White, Jimmy Buffett or Pitbull, well, most Alaskan men are kind of screwed. Which is why Blu MensWear owner Renee Curzie deserves an award for steadfast style outreach to the men of the 49th state.

Affordable luxury: Alaska's first Michael Kors Lifestyle store has arrived at Fifth Avenue Mall. And ladies who wander into the Kors world of runway glam may just feel as if they've arrived, too.

Anchorage, it’s been a little more than a year since Travel & Leisure magazine put us at the bottom of its list of the worst-dressed people in America. It’s worth asking if the worst-dressed title did anything to advance our aesthetic or just cement us in careless and casual ways.

Saturday's Clare to Clare Fashion Show for a Cause raises money for Clare House, Catholic Social Services’ 24-hour emergency shelter for women and children. The goal this year is $100,000, and seven Anchorage shops will participate. The fifth-annual fashion show is Saturday, July 27 at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center. Seven Anchorage shops -- Bottoms Boutique, Circular Boutique, Flawless Gemstone Apparel, Fourth Avenue Boutique, Lulu E. Bebe Fashion Boutique, Posh Boutique and Stallone’s -- will participate, and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation will open the show with a collection of clothing designed by Alaska Native artists from across the state.

Stephen Trimble is a mining and business leader who sits on several local boards and commissions including Alaska Arctic Policy, The Nature Conservancy and the UAA College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board. He's also a poster boy for the modernization of Alaska menswear.

Sephora debuts its first Alaska store on Friday, bringing a "stress free, beauty product playground" to Anchorage's Fifth Avenue Mall.

Need a little Alaska fashion inspiration? Meet Jennifer Thompson: mother, business owner, ModCloth maven and True Religion disciple.

How do you show off your A-K bona fides? These designers give Alaskans a chic way to represent the 9-0-7 without saying a word.

Southcentral Alaska shoppers can purge their wardrobes, get fresh attire and earn money at the same time at a consignment event April 19-21 at the Palmer Train Depot.

Lots of shops across Anchorage claim to be boutiques. But a few stand out as true-blue curators of cool, focused on cultivating a style that complements the life you live in Alaska.

Alaska fashion doesn't have to mean Carhartts and an unhealthy addition to rubber footwear. Just look at what Alaskans wore during the Fur Rendezvous Festival in downtown Anchorage.

Need a little Alaska fashion inspiration? Meet esthetician Amber Brophy Mock, mother of twins, uninterested in shoes and unashamed to wear hot pink with anything.

Fifty of Alaska's creative class will strut across the Bear Tooth stage this week in front of a sold-out crowd, wearing art that tells a story or delivers a message -- or maybe just got thrown together in celebration of fashion absurdity that "Object Runway" delivers in spades.