VERTICAL Tampa Bay

07/02/2022

"VERTICAL Girls" commissioned from Sandra Hagen, circa 2011-ish, still so stylish.

09/09/2019

10 years ago today, the premier issue launched

09/09/2019

I love you, VERTICAL.
9.9.19

28/01/2019

This chilly weather and preparing for my upcoming TB Startup Week presentation are causing me to reflect on one of my very favorite issues of VERTICAL Tampa Bay. It was Winter 2012 and we stripped the color down to "Stir the Solstice." At 213 pages, it was the largest issue on record. So much to love.

For the cool season, we stripped much of the color from VERTICAL. Highlights: ProjectSTYLISH, Stir the Solstice, White Hot Winter and Highly Dramatic.

05/05/2018

Saturday Night Styling Tip:
Let your spirit shine.
xo,
Leslie Joy

19/09/2016

VERTICAL is bubbly for Fashion Photos & Prosecco this Thursday!

With museum fashion exhibitions attracting record-breaking attendance and stylish lines twisting around city blocks, the answer to the question of whether fashion is art should be crystal clear by …

19/08/2016

If you want to have the hottest lunch date on September 22nd, be at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts from 11-1 for...

Step into The Cube in downtown Tampa to experience fashion photography at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts with prosecco and cupcakes on the side. Join us on September 22, 2016 from 11 am – 1 pm for this exclusive event, part of the official Tampa Bay Fashion Week. Photo Credit: BWL Photograp...

09/09/2015

I love you VERTICAL

Remembering what VERTICAL is about

To zoom in and read it:
http://www.verticaltampabay.com/vertical-tampa-bay-fall-2014/

08/09/2015

Tomorrow, 09.09 marks VERTICAL's 6-Year Anniversary and I'm celebrating with an artist reception at my "Love Affair with Cuba" photography exhibit. Meet me at the Clearwater Library downtown location from 4-6:30p.m.

xo,
Leslie Joy Original

By all accounts, today should be a very VERTICAL day

01/09/2015

Rainfall

19/08/2015

Party Pier-style this Friday.

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman will celebrate the St. Petersburg Pier this Friday along the Pier approach. Kriseman plans on “honoring the

19/08/2015

We now interrupt *everything* to bring you this message from Fashion Week Tampa Bay (in its entirety)!

Dear Fashion Lover,

We have some exciting news! As you know, the fashion world is constantly changing - new trends, colors, textures, fabrics, patterns, lengths, ups and downs. Over the years, we've made changes to the Tampa Bay Fashion Week event - growing from four days, stretching to nine days of programming, adding features, dropping them, divvying up events throughout the year and more!

And this year is no different - we are making changes, yet again. When we launched Tampa Bay Fashion Week (aka Fashion Week Tampa Bay) in 2008, our goal was to highlight emerging and established designers in our region and help to build the fashion community in our area. We're proud to be one of the players who has steadily evolved over the years, and appreciate you all coming along for the ride with us!

There have been a variety of changes in our emerging fashion community and across the state and country in the fashion industry. Boutiques have opened and closed, designers have launched and faded away, fashion shows have come and gone and come again. It's just the nature of change, life and business.

Our team has paid attention to the trends and changes over the years in Tampa Bay and decided to revisit the approach to our week. After running surveys, receiving feedback and suggestions, we stopped and asked ourselves, as fun as our Tampa Bay Fashion Week is, is it doing what we want it to do? Are we contributing to the scene the way we intended? Are designers making it and giving back? And how do we, as volunteers on this journey, help to build and contribute to the fashion scene that feels right for us all?

So with our eighth (8th) year, we are shaking things up even more!

We have decided to get down to the basics. In order for the fashion designer community to grow, the designers need to be able to sustain themselves and make a living at the craft that they share with us all.

So instead of having a large runway show as we've done since the inception of the event, we're going to be in a pop-up boutique at International Plaza and Bay Street, where designers will have trunk shows/fashion presentations from
Sept. 16-19.

You'll be able to shop your favorite, local Tampa Bay Fashion Week designer, place orders, and meet the designer behind the collection one-on-one.

While there is no main runway show this year, there is still the opportunity to view the collections in a unique, shopping experience.

Our boutique will be called, PURE Haus at Tampa Bay Fashion Week.

This is an experiment for us all, and we're all very excited!! We hope that you will embrace and support this year's change, come and see the designer collections, and shop in this TBFW first-time, one-of-a-kind, Pop-Up Retail Experience (PURE).

There are also several other events on our week's calendar, and we hope that you will come out and support those as well. Click here to view the schedule of events and designer trunk show times.

Oh, and how do you attend these trunk shows? They are FREE and open to the public, thanks to our fantastic sponsors and our special gift to you! But you must RSVP to be added to the guest list! Be sure to RSVP quickly as space is limited. And if you're not able to attend a trunk show, you can still stop by PURE Haus and see the designers' collections during store hours (10am-9pm). Also, be sure to check our calendar for other in-store events and activities.

We are so grateful to have you on this journey with us since 2008 - and we'll see you at Tampa Bay Fashion Week 2015!

Fashionably Yours,
Nancy, Jenna, Lisa, Zakia & Rechael
The Fashion Week Tampa Bay Team

fashionweektampabay.com

17/08/2015

How do I love thee Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida? Let me count the ways, including the preservation of its signature Kapok tree.

Over the weekend a "rumor" started which said the MFA was going to "chop down the Kapok tree". It sparked quite the conversation and controversy among local residents. Let it be known the Kapok Tree on the grounds of the MFA is not going anywhere. Planted by on our grounds to commemorate the first location of the Art Center, it is a part of us. Thank you for your concern.

15/08/2015

Public Art rolling into downtown Tampa, streetcar style

TAMPA — Forty streetcar sculptures to be decorated by local artists and displayed as public art throughout downtown Tampa were delivered Thursday to the Channel District.

15/08/2015

Dunedin Fine Art Center presents Wearable Art 11 on August 29

Celebrating ELEVEN YEARS as Tampa Bay's premiere mashup of FASHION and ART. 7:00 pm Pre-Party 8:30 pm Runway Show 9:30 pm After-Party BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE! Sponsorship opportunities are available. Click below to download our sponsorship packet. Download Packet This year we're fea…

14/08/2015

Model Casting Call for Tampa Bay Fashion Week 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Art Institute of Tampa
4401 North Himes Avenue, Studio 158
Tampa, FL 33614-7086

Your arrival time is determined by your last name:
A-I: 6pm
J-Q: 6:30pm
R-Z: 7pm

For more info, go to Fashion Week Tampa Bay

13/08/2015

Very VERTICAL congratulations to local artist Rebekah Lazaridis of Eugenia Woods. She's been invited to present a solo painting show in New York City this fall!

12/08/2015

Today, for Why Not Wednesday, a look at VERTICAL's V-Yr Anniversary!

Welcome to our 5-Year Anniversary issue starring print fashion featuring Vimala Faith, pretty, delicious food, a visual vacation and some robots too.