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
Is This Vegas or Am I Dreaming?
September 18th, 2012
If you are like me and you have lived in Vegas so long you can’t live without Vegas even when you travel, make sure and check into the Dream Downtown on your next break to New York City.
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Zark for Breakfast
Our resident Cirque buff travels to New York to get the scoop on Vegas’ next big circus show
September 13th, 2012
Since I’d seen him last summer at Radio City Music Hall, Zark has traveled the world, learned a new language and is now embarking upon a cross-country move. Rapid changes are common for a man of theater, and even less unusual for the main character of Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana, which will arrive at Aria on Nov. 1.
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Patricia Field
The fashion guru on the importance of hair, her Las Vegas TV experience and The Godfather’s contribution to American fashion
September 6th, 2012
You may not wear it, or understand it, but you know the 71-year-old’s style. It’s the way women should look when they leave the house: fun, playful, eclectic. On Sept. 6, Patricia Field comes to Crystals at CityCenter to host Fashion’s Night Out, curating a fashion presentation and presiding over a Charity Crawl, where a portion of the night’s proceeds will be given to partner charities selected by each store. This won’t be Field’s first time in Las Vegas. She actually lived here in the ’80s while orchestrating the wardrobe design for the NBC television series Crime Story.
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‘Pure, Sexy Chaos’
Nightlife impresario Simon Hammerstein to open a theater/nightclub hybrid where everyone’s in on The Act
August 30th, 2012
It would take four years, but the right match for a new nightclub partner for the Palazzo was found in visionary Simon Hammerstein, proprietor of New York City’s the Box and spawn of live theater. Scheduled to open this fall, his new concept, The Act, is part cabaret, part Vaudevillian showcase with exotic performances set between interludes of roaring music.
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Cirque de Street Clothes
During their Vegas stop, a human circus showed the power of plain
May 31st, 2012
Imagine Cirque du Soleil stripped down to its core, void of elaborate costumes, multimillion-dollar stages and special effects. Then take its acrobatic elements and set them to contemporary music such as hip-hop and dubstep. Bundle this up with a storyline that explores mental illness.
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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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