Designers. A New Home for Vika Brown. Grand Opening In Chicago. Second City Style Fashion Blog

A true fashion dilemma: To wear or not to wear a designers’ piece to their fashion shows and/or other fashionable soirees. For Chicago designer, Vika Brown, the answer has to be wear it, and that’s what many of the attendees did during Vika Brown’s grand opening party for her store, Eclectica. New and old fans …

Beauty Beat. MAC Reaches $100 Million in Fight Against AIDS

Eve & Dita von Teese MAC Cosmetics doesn’t mess around. When they said they were committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS they were 100% serious boy did these talkers walk the walk. To date, FashionWeekDaily reports that the VIVA Glam campaign with Eve and Dita von Teese has raised over $100 million. Perhaps that’s because …

Holiday Shopping Forecast. Luxury Brands to Woo the Sure Thing This Holiday Season. Second City Style Fashion Blog

In a nutshell, the super rich are going to spend up a storm this holiday season and the moderatley rich are going to cut back. In an article in today’s Wall Street Journal it’s the "affordable luxury’ market or the lower end that will not fair as well. Only the most elite brands and the …

Fashion Shows. Target's Modeless Fashion Show Flop. Second City Style Fashion Blog

Well, it would seem the general public is not ready for computer generated fashion shows sans models…yet. This past Tuesday and Wednesday, Target held a public fashion show (actually a holographic video that played on a loop) in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central and the general public didn’t get it. According to yesterday’s NYTimes, here …

Jewelry/Bling. The Ode to Stepmonster Necklace. Second City Style Fashion Blog

Yikes! It is getting really ugly. STELLA McCartney has never made any bones about not liking her short-lived step-mother, Heather (Cry Me a River) Mills. So now she is making legs. Last week, Mills told "Extra" that Stella – who never liked the one-legged "model" and once begged her father, Paul, not to marry her – …