This year's Flowers After Hours party is going haute couture. As part of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' annual Art in Bloom festival (see page 36), designers Emma Berg, Max Lohrbach, Joy Teiken, Anna Lee, Nicole Larson and "Project Runway" alumni Danielle Everine and Christopher Straub will each create a high-fashion look inspired by the floral arrangements and fine art in the show -- and in some cases will include the garden itself with the help of Bastian+Skoog florists.

Cliché is again bringing fashion to the streets -- literally -- with the Uptown boutique's semiannual "Crosswalk" show. It kicks off inside with models walking the aisles of the store, then moves outside, transforming the crosswalk at 24th Street and Lyndale Avenue into an impromptu runway. The styling will be "fashion victim"-inspired: Think bandages, crutches and Band-Aids. Beauty is pain, after all. Shoppers can take 20 percent off the store's entire inventory during the event.