Designer Spotlight: Melissa Serpico
Line: Serpico Background: Studied graphic design at Loyola University and while in her first job, found it wasn’t for her. Went to the School of the Art Institute for fashion design, graduated in May...
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Line: Amberlynn Designs Background: After a stint in the business world, Beach left to pursue her lifelong dreams of being a fashion designer. She graduated from Columbia College’s fashion-design...
View ArticleA Posh Preview: Nordstrom shows its fall colors
On an average evening, as dusk settles in across the city, the Chicago History Museum closes its doors to field-trip groups, history buffs and curious tourists, and lies dormant for the night before...
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The past is present in this year’s fall collections, with designers tapping every decade from the thirties to the nineties for inspiration. But it’s the decade that gave us tight-rolled jeans, shoulder...
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The verdict is in—Alexander Wang has won the Vogue CFDA Fashion Fund for 2008. The lucky man and his eponymous label will receive $200,000 and a year’s worth of mentoring. The two runners up who will...
View ArticleMaking Statements: Trevian and B.J. Kutti bring the provocative style of...
By Nicole Briese Wake up, Wells Street—Trevian has arrived. With just three little words, Chicago’s resident fashionista has made her presence known, and Old Town just may never recover: Hot. Ass....
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1405 N. Wells, (312)587-9800 [ratings] Goods: Men’s and women’s couture clothing and shoes. Designers: Big names like Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Moschino and Richard Tyler are present, to name a few. Owners:...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Romper: Romancing the summer garment of the future
By Monica Westin “Rompers are for hipsters and babies and the babies of hipsters,” claims my friend Jenn, a marketer for Whole Foods whose husband is the front man of a Pitchfork-adored band. “I have...
View ArticleMe and My Supermodel: The tale of Behati Prinsloo
By Rhianna Jones Tall, stunning, happy, confident, cool: these are the words one would use to describe Behati Prinsloo at first glance. This is not, however, the image most of us would project working...
View ArticleFantasy Island: Macy’s Glamorama helps Chicago forget its recent “fashion...
By Rhianna Jones It has long been a great debate as to whether or not New York or Paris is the fashion capital of the world. The biannual mash-up of runway shows known as “fashion month” is comprised...
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