We never thought we’d see the day when two of our pop-culture icons would be proven wrong, but that’s just what happened once we met Erin and Sianna Ziegler. The sisters were nothing like what Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields describes in his song, and not only did we not hate them, we really liked them. Erin had on an Anthropologie shirt with a matching Hayden-Harnett bag; Sianna was wearing an orange skirt from Banana Republic—and no, Elle Woods, she was not seriously disturbed.

Watch the video to find out why these sisters like bold colors, what they think about the way men dress in Washington, and why they hope Chris Matthews is right about the current administration.

Suzanne Allis.

The hottest young jewelry designer to hit the scene isn’t selling her wares from the Big Apple or the left coast. Local designer Suzanne Allis, of Suzanne Somersall designs, manufactures feminine yet trend-worthy pieces of gold, silver, and platinum from her Alexandria home base.

We had the chance to sit down with Suzanne at Murky Coffee when she arrived in town to prep for her trunk show this evening at Bethesda’s Ginger Boutique.

Suzanne has been interested in visual arts since an early age, but it wasn’t until college that she truly began to explore her passion. On a yearlong study-abroad program in Florence, Italy, Suzanne got her first taste of formal jewelry classes, learning the basics of metalsmithing and jewelry design. After college, she admits, her choices were limited—she could have launched her own business but lacked both the entrepreneurial savvy and the technical experience to complete a line that would satisfy her perfectionism. So she enrolled in a master’s program at the Rhode Island School of Design and completed a yearlong course in jewelry making.