Chicago designer Sheila Rashid makes unisex clothes that give people the freedom to define themselves.
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[PHOTOS] Denimcratic, No Merit, and other local labels at the Museum of Streetwear
Last weekend’s two-day pop-up at the Lab on Lake showcased Chicago designers outside the downtown-Wicker Park-Bucktown hub.
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The Museum of Streetwear enshrines young Chicago designers (for a weekend)
Amanda Harth and Runwayaddicts have set up a space to talk about how our city does fashion differently.
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Here’s who is on the Pitchfork/Silver Room Block Party/ComplexCon cover (and the winner of our contest!)
How many did you guess correctly?
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The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Pitchfork Music Festival
Even on a weekend it shares with the Silver Room Block Party and the debut of ComplexCon Chicago, Pitchfork stands out for its far-sighted, eclectic bookings.
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Can ComplexCon do justice to Chicago streetwear?
Leaders from two generations of the local streetwear scene talk about ComplexCon’s pros and cons.
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If you only see one act at ComplexCon Chicago, make it peerless local rapper Lucki
Come November, the music press will start churning out “decade in review” pieces. Though I can’t predict their contents (and frankly don’t want to), I anticipate there’ll be several listicles ranking Chicago rappers—and any such roundup would be incomplete without Lucki Camel Jr. He dropped his debut mixtape, Alternative Trap, in 2013, and though he […]
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Who’s the octopus in Takashi Murakami’s ‘The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg’?
A new exhibit of the Japanese artist’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment.