Modiste

From BoardGameGeek:

Ah, the Modiste: the 19th century's heroine of fashion... The resilient artist who designs and creates dresses for women... The person who deeply understands elegance, refinement, creativity, and persists in setting new dynamic trends... Explore your creative side through this stunning, competitive, strategic puzzle game and declare yourself the pinnacle of fashion's elite. You, a daring, upcoming Modiste have just completed your apprenticeship. We congratulate you on opening your new boutique-the cutest little shop like none has ever seen before. Your hopes and dreams lie with your best designs occupying the mannequins in your shop window, luring customers through your door with your daring and ingenious garments. Ideally your price tags reflect your passion, time, and artistry! Fashion is quickly evolving with the seasons, and fortune favours the Modistes who open their shops before the rest, modelling the most appealing dresses for eager patrons with gold in their purses to burn. Best to pay attention to what is IN this season using the MODISTE Magazine cards, and be wary as trends fade into history, doomed to become faux pas. Beware constructing dresses from fashion's sleeping past; it may just ruin your collection, or worse, your blooming reputation. After all, there is nothing you want more than to have your name become synonymous with luxury style. In this strategic, competitive puzzle game with a robust solo mode-iste campaign included, players take turns collecting components for gowns to meet fashionable and trending criteria to score the most expensive collection of dresses over three rounds. Using 56 exquisite, original fabric patterns, over 100 clear plastic trim overlay cards, and over 150 unique Signature Design goal cards, Modiste is infinitely varied and the depth of strategy is endless! Now, how will you rise to the top and declare yourself the Modiste to watch? -description from the publisher