Over 200,000 people attended Tucson’s La Fiesta de los Vaqueros this February. Amid the crowd, a woman with a skin-tight, all-denim outfit stands tall as she sipped her beer. She is wearing leopard print cowboy boots with red leather that adorns her calves and a matching belt with a chunky white gold clasp. “Those are…
When one thinks of southwestern architecture, an image of earth tones, or adobe style homes with stucco walls can come to mind, basically a space rooted from the ground and designed to fit the needs of comfortable, simple living. Many facets influence the style of architecture in the state. Frank Lloyd Wright stamped the southwest…
Vintage leather pencil skirts, rose gold hair barrettes imported from France, and hand-made authentic furniture are neatly displayed in a shop called Avenue Boutique on the east side of Tucson. A few miles southeast of Avenue Boutique, Charlette Padilla teaches Omni- Channel Retailing, a course designed to teach students about the unlimited ways to consume…
