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Tag: Chicago fashion
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Whither the city’s fashion initiative?
The city’s fashion programming department is closing
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“Unearthed” Helps You See the Light
Students at the Illinois Institute of Art take the fate of Chicago fashion into their own hands.
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Latino Fashion Week
Latino Fashion Week, highlighting the work of local and international Latino designers, starts tonight.
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Maria Pinto Speaks
Chicago designer (and Michelle Obama favorite) Maria Pinto will speak at a networking lunch sponsored by the Professional Women’s Club of Chicago on September 9. The title of her talk: “Chicago Fashion—Is It the New Center of the Globe?”
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A new clothing line in Chicago
About two years ago, Jenna Fowler and Melanie Manego started Fashion Heist, a Chicago-based showroom offering designers and labels representation to retailers throughout the midwest. Now they’ve gotten into the design biz themselves with Jlee Silver, a line of women’s separates that Fowler describes as “fun, functional, and attainable.”
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Designer Lara Miller adds “den mother” to her resume
Lara Miller is the new executive director of Macy’s Chicago Fashion Incubator.
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A peek inside the local fashion industry
Attendance at last night’s Inside Chicago Fashion panel discussion should have been mandatory for students of the city’s many fashion design programs. Local designer Anna Fong revealed that if she had to do it all over again, she would have majored in business and minored in fashion at Columbia College, calling her job 90 percent business and 10 percent design.
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Welcome to the Reader’s Fashion blog
What we’ll be talking about when we talk about fashion.
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Creatures of the Wind in W
Chicago-based fashion designers Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters, aka Creatures of the Wind, in W magazine.
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Not Coming Soon to a Nordstrom Near You
Fashion designers Christopher Peters and Shane Gabier, aka Creatures of the Wind, believe the way to the big time is to think small.
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Chicago bids adieu to Sarah Staskauskas
Sarah Staskauskas moves to Los Angeles; Chicago friends say goodbye