Melinda Sheckells
Contact: 868-4536 • Email
Our fashion and style team leader has crafted the content and fashion imagery for several of the city’s best publications. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Vegas/Rated magazine and the fashion editor of Wendoh Media's custom publications including Crystals magazine and the in-room publication for Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. She joined Wendoh Media in 2009 from her previous position as group managing editor of Niche Media's Western Division where she oversaw publications such as Vegas magazine, Las Vegas Home + Design, CityCenter magazine, Wynn magazine and Style magazine (the publication of the Venetian and the Palazzo). In 2008, Sheckells co-authored and edited a coffee table book chronicling the history of Caesars Palace. She also frequently appears as a special correspondent on local and national news programs including the Travel Channel, NBC 3 and FOX 5.
Recent Articles
I Come From a Club Down Under
Vegas Seven dispatches one of its own to get the scoop on Marquee Nightclub in Sydney’s Star Casino
April 19th, 2012
For the last 20 years, Las Vegas-style hospitality has been skillful at transcending its borders. First, it popped up in Macau, with gaming palaces made in the image of Wynn and the Venetian; then in Singapore at mega resort Marina Bay Sands. But now it’s taken a truly lengthy trip and seeped down under—7,700 miles to Sydney.
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Small Space, Big Impact
As glamorous as the city below, Joey Avino’s condo in the Martin proves luxurious living is not bound by square footage
April 12th, 2012
By Las Vegas standards, 1,053 square feet isn’t a very large dwelling. Homes here have bathrooms bigger than that.
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Obsessions
Eco-friendly Couture
March 8th, 2012
My favorite takeaway from this year’s awards season was Livia Firth’s Green Carpet Challenge. Since 2009, Colin’s wife has made it her mission to meld sustainable design and high-fashion, proving that arm candy can be deliciously beautiful and intelligent.
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Obsessions
Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2012 Collection
March 1st, 2012
Dolce & Gabbana’s spring/summer 2012 collection: Anything that blends my two passions of food and fashion shall receive a resounding Mangia!
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Obsessions
Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy Haute Couture
February 9th, 2012
We loved his artwork on the Watch the Throne aIbum cover and then loved him even more during the tour, thanks to the leather kilt he designed for Kanye West. But after Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, he’s now a god.
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Jill Abelman
Downtown’s Organic Glamourist
January 26th, 2012
Three renderings on the wall of Jill Abelman’s new showroom chronicle the moving of her business, Inside Style, from a sleepy business park a few miles up the road to these new digs downtown. What’s shown in the final panel is a storefront complete with fresh, new signage—a dream board of sorts, and a hint at what’s to come. “The exterior is next,” are the hopeful words on the frame.
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Obsessions
Shot Callin’ and Big Bloggin’
January 19th, 2012
I’m an L.A. girl, and when I am clamoring for a bit of home I dig deep into one of my favorite blogs: EastofHighland.com.
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Brannon
One of Las Vegas’ first big-city stylists on his admiration for Vidal Sassoon, his signature style and which A-list celeb needs a new ’do
January 12th, 2012
A million different roads lead to Las Vegas—some marked by desire and others by necessity. Hairstylist Brannon found himself on such a twisting path. He left New York City in 2001 after losing his apartment following the 9/11 tragedy. He knew Los Angeles wasn’t for him but saw some opportunities in Las Vegas. So he rolled the dice on the possibility that it would become the next big destination for hairstyling.
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Kanye West and Jay-Z
MGM Grand Garden Arena, Dec. 9
December 15th, 2011
The sold-out Watch the Throne tour stop (promoting an album of the same name) was a display of elegant bravado that would make Scarface’s Tony Montana envious. The duo’s One-Percenter rhymes about high-end watches—“Ball so hard, got a broke clock, Rolleys that don’t tick tock. Audemars that’s losing time”—could easily go over “99 percent” of the audience’s heads. Except that fans knew the lyrics by heart.
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Body Electric
December 8th, 2011
Designer Zaldy Goco was hired as the stylist/costumer for Jackson’s final tour, This Is It, which ultimately never came to fruition. When he was commissioned by Cirque to do the costumes for Immortal, Goco used one piece of wardrobe that Jackson adored: LED pants. Meant to mimic the light-up sidewalk in the “Billie Jean” video, Goco says that Jackson described them as “everything I ever wanted” when he tried them on. Here Goco recounts his first encounter with Jackson:
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